Meryl Alper
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jan 2024
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So I think that when it comes to the the social dynamics, we have to think about the bigger picture, how connected are these kids more broadly, but also thinking about the ways in which and to think about games in particular, it's never just about games anymore.
Because games are connected to all these other platforms.
YouTube.
I mean, YouTube is a space where
You can you don't have to play, you can just watch or even Twitch, you can peripherally experience.
And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing because kids are also picking up maybe gaming tips.
But I I saw a lot of kids for whom social interaction might have been scary, like intimidating or a lot, but watching other gamers talk to one another or interact.
Wasn't a replacement, I don't think, for being social, but it was a way to learn and observe other people socially interacting in a way that you can pause, you can step away, you can pay closer attention to, you can observe.
So the observation of watching people.
gamers kind of socially interact, it can be more of a building block.
It's not either or.
It's not you're either being social in a game or not.
You're either being social not playing a game, you know, offline or not.
But these other spaces where it can be more a kind of scaffolding.
But that requires parents to know what their kids are watching, which
Not every parent is really so excited to spend how many hours watching gamers play with one another, but it's something that kids do on play dates that I saw and and talked with autistic kids about that being a thing that they like to do.
So I think that social content can take a lot of different forms.
And it's important to think about any of that really truly within the individual context of your child.
Yeah, I could break it down by a lot of different things by gender, but I think in terms of age ranges.
So I mentioned that this book was for kids three to thirteen and that I'm also doing I'm doing work now that is focused on a little bit older people on the spectrum.
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