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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8291165" data-attributes="member: 6796468">I wonder if it's an issue of neurodivergence..?I am neurodivergent in a way where I have issues recognizing social cues and sometimes sarcasm, even in person much less in text.For me, alignment was very useful in starting out because it helped me create another &quot;Identity Box&quot; where some aspect of a character could be put and help the rest of it make sense. And I still use it, these days, to get an idea of what to expect from characters within a degree of error, obviously. Sparrow and the Honest Man, after all.But I also don't think that's exactly it, because I know neurodivergent people for whom it -isn't- useful at all, and who find it a stressful or pointless addition to a character sheet. So it's not universal across neurodivergence. Is it significantly varied among neurotypicals?Because I can only speak from my position, I'll instead ask all the neurotypicals around here: Is Alignment useful or useless to you?If it's as varied among neurotypicals maybe there's some other aspect of personality that shapes whether alignment is or isn't useful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8291165, member: 6796468"] I wonder if it's an issue of neurodivergence..? I am neurodivergent in a way where I have issues recognizing social cues and sometimes sarcasm, even in person much less in text. For me, alignment was very useful in starting out because it helped me create another "Identity Box" where some aspect of a character could be put and help the rest of it make sense. And I still use it, these days, to get an idea of what to expect from characters within a degree of error, obviously. Sparrow and the Honest Man, after all. But I also don't think that's exactly it, because I know neurodivergent people for whom it -isn't- useful at all, and who find it a stressful or pointless addition to a character sheet. So it's not universal across neurodivergence. Is it significantly varied among neurotypicals? Because I can only speak from my position, I'll instead ask all the neurotypicals around here: Is Alignment useful or useless to you? If it's as varied among neurotypicals maybe there's some other aspect of personality that shapes whether alignment is or isn't useful. [/QUOTE]

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