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    Airget's Avatar
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    Airget Lamh
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    Botanist Lv 100
    Just break out of the mentality that you are a terrible player and overcome the obstacle, if you use the disease as an excuse for your play then you won't push yourself to overcome that handicap life has dealt you. Might sound rough to say but if there is a will there is a way and if you just keep pushing you may find yourself capable of playing to a style that helps you.

    One trick you could try, is if you have poor hand eye coordination, then practice playing blind, feel your tools and memorize the texture, if it helps put texture cues on your keyboard mouse, so that when you feel it, you know what you're touching and you aren't relying on hand eye coordination to do the work for you. Much like how the f and j key have dents you can feel to give use the cue that that's the starting position for typing. You could set something on your 1 button to know when your hand is on one, and by keeping your finger at 1 you'll know how to reach 2-3 because they are right next to each other.

    Play around with ideas, it's something you can consider while crafting and gathering is how can you make it easier on yourself, how can you overcome the obstacle that's been a part of your life and ya, goodluck, hopefully maybe if this advice doesn't sound like nonsense it can help you come up with a means to play with more ease.
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    Khaela Alteri
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    Pugilist Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by Airget View Post
    feel your tools and memorize the texture, if it helps put texture cues on your keyboard mouse
    Probably shouldn't comment on these things unless you have some knowledge. Multiple Sclerosis is a nervous system disorder and generally comes with some degree of numbness in the extremities (with attacks leading to full or partial paralysis). This varies from person to person, but it's quite possible you just did the equivalent of asking a person mentioning they have a hard time with their wheelchair to just walk across the room.

    @OP: My mother suffers from NMO (Neuromyelitis Optica) which is similar to MS in some ways. She was originally diagnosed with MS in the 90s, and then I forget what in the early 2000s, and finally with NMO which is a pretty newly discovered disease. Like MS it involves the demyelination of the spinal cord, but the cause in NMO is an auto-immune disorder where the body's immune system attacks it. It also attacks the optic nerves (thus, optica).

    She prefers dungeons and plays well enough, but hotbar MMOs are one of the only games she can still play (we used to play a lot of other games like Mario Kart, various Zeldas, etc. but that's not really possible for her, anymore) and it will prevent her from ever being 'great'. She still does better DPS than a majority of people I pick up in DF (or even PF), however, and is only rarely the cause of wipes. The main thing for her is not caring, because, like you, stress causes her to have trouble. I'm usually on skype with her when we play and I'll try to remind her to take deep breaths and/or calm down and/or that it's just a game and it doesn't really matter and her performance will generally improve quite a bit.
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