Is there a link between speedrunning and mental illness?
Is there a link between speedrunning and mental illness?
Luis Green
Justin Butler
So that’s the tranny the pic is based off
It looks like a gremlin
Haha
Julian Campbell
Yes, the water at AGDQ.
Luis Reed
Doing the same thing over and over thousands of times for thousands of hours is a sign of autism.
Not everyone who speedrun is an autist but tona of autists are speedrunners
Owen Jones
Say that to my face
Liam Baker
Autism, it all comes back to autism. Prove me wrong.
Hudson Scott
Speedrunning requires mental illness, imagine spending your days completing the same game over and over
Carson Hernandez
Probably. The focus and obsession needed to carve seconds off of an extremely repetitive task that doesn't have any pragmatic purpose probably lends itself better to people with obsessive traits and personalities.
Carson Johnson
The difference being one's a job and the other's mental sickness!
Luke Reyes
Yes, it is called Video Games.