I think I’m neurodivergent. I can’t say for sure beecause I have not been tested, but I hav eslowly come to realize that I don’t think like other people on many different levels. Or on any level, really. I no longer care as much as I used to because haters are going to hate. It’s been helpful, though, to realize that I am different and that if people don’t understand it, well, that’s on them.
One thing that I have read about people with autism or ADHD is that they become hyperfocused on something. Like to an extreme degree. This isn’t just about having passion or caring about something, it’s about loving that thing to distraction and ignoring everything else. I’m not quite to that extreme, but when I’m into something, it’s often all I can think about. Like when I’m teaching myself a new weapon. I think about it even when I’m not doing it–and it’s definitely how I feel about From games. When I am into one, I am INTO one. When I was playing Elden Ring, it was all I did outside of my writing/ work/Taiji. All I wanted to do was be in the Lands Between, and that was all I did for fun for months.
There’s someone ihe RKG group who has 10 characters in Elden Ring. He played Dark Souls III for thousands of hours as a way to stave off his depression. When Krupa went for his plat for Dark Souls, this other person and I were his go-to for help. I am not nearly as familiar with that game as I am with the third game, but I was able to help out–and Google when I couldn’t. It was because of Krupa going for that plat that I started my own plat journey. Or hundo chievo because I’m not on PlayStation. There are people who insist that if it’s not on PlayStation, it can’t be a plat. Fine. Whatever. It’s the same fucking achievements, but if they want to be such prisses about it, then fine.
Hundo chievo it is, then.
Once again, I end up at From games because I love them so much. I started playing Elden Ring again after being away for a few months. Or maybe a month. It felt so natural as if I had never been gone. A few of the buttons are a bit weird because they aren’t the same as Dark Souls III buttons, but that took five seconds to reacclimatize. Then it was like coming home. I played as both my most recent character and my NG+ character. It was fun to go back again. Krupa asked us in Discord what would be a good armor for Rory knowing the way he plays. I canot wait for the Elden Ring Retry!