Like apple pie, its good. Also the app totally doesn't follow certain conventions of virality. No social graph imported. Love that fact that it's blowing up.
what? How? it's an anecdote of potential positive benefits of a video game. I think it's interesting. The game has had a clear impact on this kid's life. Interested to see studies on the long term impact on children with autism playing this game. If there is any lasting impact on socialization.
> The game has been out for 8 days. So no, it has not had a clear impact on his life.
It can certainly have had a clear impact on his life in a short period (whether it is a durable and lasting impact is, of course, not going to be obvious in a short time.)
Man, I mean I'm normally skeptical about anything I can find.. but what's the use in being skeptical about something like this? It's just a feel good anecdote from an excited mother. Even if the kid wasn't autistic and just had problems socializing, it's still an encouraging story..
Not at all what stated in the article... Just a mom's experience. The kid needed a stronger motivator to interact with other people, the game gave that motivation. There's lots of research on how videogames help kids in the spectrum, this is just more popular because it's pokemon.
As you say, this happens with many videogames and other kind of stuff: I remember the case of a child that started to interact with other children after watching Jurassic Park. He totally wanted to play and talk about dinosaurs.
The article just tries to go aboard the Pokémon GO hype, in a particularly wrong way, IMO.
