I never related to "time blindness" because I was always consistently early for things, but really I was just deeply anxious about being on time for things. I would set like 10 alarms set, I wouldn't be able to do anything for an hour or two beforehand because I was worried about being late, and I'd usually show up way too early because I couldn't actually estimate when I needed to start getting ready to be on time. That doesn't exactly sound like the behavior of someone with a functional inner clock.
One of the more non-rewarding things can be deadlines, especially destructive ones.
We may both even have 5 similar symptoms caused by different things
The "clumsy" aspect is similar. I'm not clumsy. My balance and coordination are a little above average based on observations like rock hopping to cross streams while hiking.
On the other hand I had a hell of a time getting used to the parry sequences in Expedition 33. It felt at times like they were intentionally trying to fool me into parrying at the wrong times based on visual cues. Which... they were. The auditory cues were more reliable and once I got used to that I breezed through the rest of the game.
I ask because FPS gameplay contains a whole host of different skills, including the precision of your movements, the ability to accurately predict and track the enemy’s position on screen, as well as your reaction times, sequencing movements and so on. Potentially you could be exceptionally good at some of these and unusually bad at others and still emerge as a good FPS player.
Fighting games are a bit more pure, leaning more heavily on reaction times, timing and sequencing of moves.
Recent understanding of dyslexia is that it’s actually a kind of sequencing problem in the brain. I wonder if this is more descriptive of the issues faced by ADHDers?
I am absolutely wildly impulsive (and was even more so when I was younger), but when I took the reaction time test in college, I was playing counterstrike multiple hours a day. I tested in whatever the "in between" area was on that for impulsivity. None of the people I knew that played twitch games a lot got a positive result on that test.
I’ll watch that for sure as I’ve always felt very uneasy, and a little indignant, listening to Mate talk about ADHD; but I’ve never been able to put my finger on why exactly!