Damn, I didn’t know this had a name! My wife and I do this all the time. Our computers are right next to each other’s, and we play our own games for hours at a time. It’s glorious.
Yeah, I think it’s something people have been doing for eons and that only recently has a name. It’s really no different than when my wife and I would read separate things next to each other.
What is parallel play?
We hang out together, you play your game and I play mine.
Damn, I didn’t know this had a name! My wife and I do this all the time. Our computers are right next to each other’s, and we play our own games for hours at a time. It’s glorious.
Yeah, I think it’s something people have been doing for eons and that only recently has a name. It’s really no different than when my wife and I would read separate things next to each other.
Wait this is a ADHD thing? Ive always wanted to do this witg friends.
Indeed it is! It also comes up under autism too… the way these two diagnoses intersect is evolving in real time.
It also applies to chores and overcoming the dreaded “wall of awful”. It’s called “parallel work” or “body doubling.”