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<blockquote data-quote="Imhotepthewise" data-source="post: 344512" data-attributes="member: 976"><p>I was a school mushroom. I was always "there" but never "there". I made it by on personality. There was no quality. My work was sloppy and incomplete, if there at all. No organization, no organization, no math skills, no hope. I was "not working to my potential". That was the '70s.</p><p></p><p>What I had was ADHD.</p><p></p><p>Enter the Navy, go to school, still no great success. Squeak by on good behavior.</p><p></p><p>Sitting there in the barracks one day absentmindedly drawing in my sketchbook a scaly dragon, the guy on watch says "that's neat. Do you play D&D?". The long story short is I played D&D every spare moment from that time for a year and a respectable amount of time since then. My imagination would not allow me to sit as a player; I was DMing from nearly from the start.</p><p></p><p>From a woeful high school transcript to a college degree with honors. The organization, writing and math skills, and quality of work I attribute to learning to play roleplaying games. It focused my interest like nothing else before.</p><p></p><p>I have a 15 year old son who plays, I have seen how RPGs have focused him enough to make the same improvements. He is an Eagle Scout and a reasonably good student.</p><p></p><p>Behind medication, for imaginative and bright children, RPGs are proven therapy for ADHD. IMHO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imhotepthewise, post: 344512, member: 976"] I was a school mushroom. I was always "there" but never "there". I made it by on personality. There was no quality. My work was sloppy and incomplete, if there at all. No organization, no organization, no math skills, no hope. I was "not working to my potential". That was the '70s. What I had was ADHD. Enter the Navy, go to school, still no great success. Squeak by on good behavior. Sitting there in the barracks one day absentmindedly drawing in my sketchbook a scaly dragon, the guy on watch says "that's neat. Do you play D&D?". The long story short is I played D&D every spare moment from that time for a year and a respectable amount of time since then. My imagination would not allow me to sit as a player; I was DMing from nearly from the start. From a woeful high school transcript to a college degree with honors. The organization, writing and math skills, and quality of work I attribute to learning to play roleplaying games. It focused my interest like nothing else before. I have a 15 year old son who plays, I have seen how RPGs have focused him enough to make the same improvements. He is an Eagle Scout and a reasonably good student. Behind medication, for imaginative and bright children, RPGs are proven therapy for ADHD. IMHO. [/QUOTE]
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