'Amy' dev Paul Cuisset discusses game's autistic character, female leads

@(Unverified)

But it is a disorder. Therefore, you can suffer from it.

@(Unverified) Like Grey said, it's not a disease or a virus, but it's a disorder that, sadly, does affect people.

@(Unverified)
A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an oganism, so yes, autism can be defined as a disease.

In reference to the game: hmm i'm not into escort missions, i'll have to watch some more gameplay videos.

@Grey

What an asinine comment. Disorder is just the term that psychologists use to describe anything that deviates from "normal."

@drumwiz86

I have autism, it very much is a disorder, and I suffer from it.

And no, it's not just "anything that deviates from normal." A disorder must meet four conditions to be included in the DSM, only one of which is abnormality.

@(Unverified) My 13 year old brother would beg to differ you twat. It may not be a disease, but people can still suffer from it.

@thelolotov I'm saying that just because you have autism it doesn't mean that you're suffering. Would you say that someone is "suffering from being Asian"?

@(Unverified)

So it's perfectly fine then to generalise any and all diseases as something to which you suffer from, yet a very infamous mental disorder shouldn't?

@(Unverified)

"In medicine, a disorder is a functional abnormality or disturbance.[10] Medical disorders can be categorized into mental disorders, physical disorders, genetic disorders, emotional and behavioral disorders, and functional disorders.

The term disorder is often considered more value-neutral and less stigmatizing than the terms disease or illness, and therefore is preferred terminology in some circumstances. In mental health, the term mental disorder is used as a way of acknowledging the complex interaction of biological, social, and psychological factors in psychiatric conditions. However, the term disorder is also used in many other areas of medicine, primarily to identify physical disorders that are not caused by infectious organisms, such as metabolic disorders." - Wikipedia

In summary a disorder is a "disease" and the reason you wouldn't use the term "suffer" with disorder is because it is mental/psychological. To put in other words using such a negative term to describe something that lacks quantifiable measurement, or isn't mechanically treatable, does no good to the person in question with the disorder.

You don't tell a suicidal bipolar person, "The reason you're life is falling apart is because of your outrageous mood swings, you are not normal and neither is the way you act, there is no way to cope with your illness, it is futile."

No they don't "suffer" because that would belittle their disorder. There is no external anomaly that is subjecting them to discomfort or pain. I have an autistic younger sister with arnold chiari malformation, Graves’ disease, fibromyalgia, asthma, etc etc. She doesn't suffer from autism. She suffers from the others. Her being born and developing as an autistic person if anything is what allows her to live a more normal and fulfilling life (in question of her own personal well-being, not how we view and feel about her). In fact she lives with autism very well, the enthusiasm and silliness keeps her from feeling depressed over her health and gives her an iron will that has kept her in great shape and able to even dance professionally. That is not always the case and most psychological/mental disorders don’t have such positive connotations but consider it an example of why people feel the need to differentiate disorder from disease in the strict sense of "value-neutral" descriptors.

That’s just my opinion however, in any case I’m excited by the concept of this title.

I suffer from being Asian, and I'm not even Asian.

@(Unverified) im coming out of retirement just to vote this stupidest comment of the year.

@Aerothorn

Yes, yes I understand the technicalities by which things are defined as disorders, but when you boil down the meaning it basically applies to anyone who does function in society in the way they expect.

I was told because I didn't like social interaction and preferred to deal with other people as little as possible that I had "schizoid tendencies." However that's a load of crap. I'm just introverted.

Most of the people I know with autism find offensive the idea that it's a disease to be cured .

@Phoenix117UK
A scary(or "scarier")version of HEAVY RAIN style videogame storytelling with AMNESIA: THE DARK DESCENT style gameplay? Sounds good to me. :] I like the premise too, I'll definitely keep an eye out for it.

Hell, they get an extra $5 from me for autism support too.

@headphase More than likely. I can't see ANY game studio trying to tackle the issue of autism without a big, huge asterisk of "well, it's more like Aspergers."

@Gibbeynator

Why is that? I'm certainly not saying you're wrong, but what's so scary about "low-functioning" autism? Is it harder to write? Harder for players to relate to?

@headphase

It's referred to as the autism spectrum in order to show that there are in fact varying degrees of severity and inconsistent symptoms.

@headphase

There are different variations of Autism.

@Aerothorn

I don't think it's hard to write lines for a low-functioning autist...

@oOWallaceOo

Of all the things I have seen that were done there, yours would have to one of them

@oOWallaceOo

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

This is a moron