A couple of times when I've played Dynasty Warriors with my girlfriend (who has ADHD diagnosis), I noticed that she would be literally running in circles having absolutely no idea where she was. She's not a gamer and controlling the camera can be finnicky for someone who isn't used to dual analogs, so there's that, but she also has trouble reading the minimap.

Yesterday I've had her play Crash Bandicoot 3 and she got "lost" in stage 2, the first underwater level. At the first sphere with electricity thingy, she thought she was supposed to keep going right, she didn't notice the pipe opening leading down.

Is "getting lost" like that common for people with ADHD?

She's also pretty lousy at Bomberman games, but she enjoys playing them.

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I have ADHD and have a great sense of direction, but my partner who also has it has a horrible one. I don't think that's necessarily a common ADHD trait, though it's a spectrum of disorders and often has many comorbidities like autism, OCD, RSD, and many others and could have some that give better or worse spacial orientation, sense of direction, etc.

That said, my most common issue is repetition and grinding. It equally bores me and makes me anxious. I want a game that takes minimal skill developed through repetition and muscle memory, and more that have multiple ways to approach and solve a "problem" and throws lots of variety at you so others can't become too good for me to compete with by simply memorizing patterns or similar strategies but people with general strategy skills can win even with minimal experience learning the game (of course some is always required but if it takes 100hrs of grinding to even be a real competitor, I'm out). For example, I hate chess because good players have just memorized some moves to get out of very specific situations and don't actually have to think and adapt much on the fly. This applies to a lot of FPS, platformers, online RPGs, etc. It's usually also why I prefer coop games to competitive ones.

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