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First video game?

What was your first ever videogame?

Wow this takes me back as I was born in 1989 and I love to play computer games. My first game is a bit harder to pinpoint since I got a lot of games in my first computer that I had to share with my father. So those I recall the best on top of my mind are Galaga Deluxe, Pac-Man, Rick Dangerous and Settlers, a game that continues to follow me to this day. If that doesn’t count since I had to share them, then my first own game was Gran Turismo for PlayStation that I got in Christmas present for myself. I recall a funny story about the PlayStation, I had gotten a TV for my birthday present and my little brother’s birthday is a couple of months after me. My father came one day and told me to follow him. He had gotten a PlayStation for my brother and as he was not sure how it worked for sure he wanted to know if it was something we could use and of course I said yes. So PlayStation and gaming has always been part of my life.

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Observation about myself and energy

Today is the 4th day I am back to work after 2 weeks where I worked from home and even that working from home should result in me being more fresh I feel it did the opposite. It was so bad I even needed extra sleep the 2nd day of the work-from-home period. I didn’t think much of it before this week when I returned to work and the 2nd day of work I was so tired again. I think that I have found out what is going on with me, I think that my body is using so much energy to handle my normal routines so if something really changes it then my body needs so much extra energy into the new routines even they might seem like routines that require less energy if you look at them separately. So I will keep that in mind and I just felt I wanted to share it as well.

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Stress… what to do?

How do you manage stress?

Well there are 2 types of stress for me so it is a bit hard to say what to do about it.

1st kind

Because of my Asperger’s I often feels stressed if too many people around me, if too many things are demanded of me and so on for that I don’t feel that there is much help since if I get too much of it I just get sick in the end but I am trying hard to avoid it

2nd kind

The other is normal stress which I don’t feel I need to explain.

Fixes

As for fixes then these days I feel so much better when I can do a task offline instead of online, I also really enjoy being mindful in the way that I am frem trying to focus really hard on doing the tasks I get told to do and then for 5mins 4 times a day I am letting my mind do whatever it wants. Another thing 2-3 times a week I try to do mindfulness drawings which means I draw a picture with only 4 colors and give myself 1 hour to draw what comes into my mind and lastly then walks. So:

  1. Be offline when you can instead of always online
  2. 5mins of allowing your mind to be free 4 times a day
  3. 1 hour of drawing whatever comes to mind 3 times a week
  4. Walks when I can