SirCrispix
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Tabletop Games: The Hangover-free Social Lubricant
I have had difficulties with social interactions for most of my life. Whether this is due to growing up awkward and nerdy during a time in which those traits tended to be punished by your peers or if it was the underlying anxiety disorder, I didn’t realize I had for years, I am not sure. Though I suspect it’s a little bit of both. I tend to freeze up and begin acting very shy around new people. It takes a great deal of energy for me to push myself passed it. I found alcohol tended to ease that quite a bit when I got older, though it comes with a litany of undesirable side effects. Then within the past decade I discovered tabletop games. I’m not talking about the old Milton Bradley standards of my youth, like Monopoly and its ilk. No sir. There is a new breed of games out there that come in wide variety of styles and complexity. I found fairly quickly that having a game on the table to distract my brain made it easier for me to get out of my own way and talk to new people.
By SirCrispix3 years ago in Gamers