User blog:Selena ariel/Wiki Pages for Adapting HabitRPG for ADHD?

Hi people!

So, a couple of people in the ADHDers guild have expressed interest in the idea of having a wiki page (or pages) where we can store the accumulated wisdom of the guild. Speaking from experience, users who have ADHD can have a very hard time trying to adapt the awesomeness of HabitRPG to their seemingly insurmountable struggles (wow! awesome alliteration! would'ja look at that!), and I think it would be great if we could help players avoid some of the common ADHD-specific pitfalls of the game. HabitRPG is an incredible tool, but it can be hard for someone who has executive functioning deficits to use it to its maximum potential.

(Y'know, the inital excitement - "a GAME? Oh, MAN! I'm going to have FIFTY dailies and I'll do them EVERY DAY! TWICE!" and then like ten seconds later "uh oh. five minutes to midnight. better use stealth ......again..." We can warn new users NOT TO DO THAT, which would have helped me lots early on.)

Potential areas of interest: how many dailies are ideal? (nope. the answer ain't fifty.) how can the "tasks" column be optimized towards getting more things done, preferably on time, without becoming overwhelming and messy? (nope. not by making lots of tasks and leaving them sitting there for months 'til they start to smell bad. Been there, done that, didn't work.) Stuff like that, but of course the content is open to suggestion.

If this idea seems at all interesting, leave me a comment below and tell me what you think. Comments about what you would like to see in the page/s; if you have ADHD, what general difficulties you have trying to use the site and would like to see addressed - or techniques that you've found particularly helpful; offers of help to write/edit the pages; or any other thing that happens to pop into your head would all be muchly appreciated.

PS:

1) The Wiki pages will, obviously, be completely specific to using habitRPG. It will not be meant to replace the advice of a physician, psychologist, Ritalin, etc etc and all those other legal warnings.

2) Yes, the pages might also be useful to those who don't have ADHD. Those who don't have ADHD might also have good advice to contribute to the pages. That would be wonderful.

- Selena Ariel

And yes, of course the pages will be written more professionally than this totally informal blog post. But the pages will have to be slightly more stylistic and fun than the typical wiki page, or they won't be any use to our intended demographic.

And we (the royal "we") will also get totally bored halfway through writing them. So, your thoughts?