Graal Can Make You Smarter
 

Hello everyone, this is a kind of unique usage for Graal since I'm currently not very active in much of the things to do on there. I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) which is basically an immaturity of your attention span. It has yet to grow. People with ADD lack chemicals in their brain that keep them focused, concentrated and motivated.

The opposite of concentration is dilution. To add something to a mix. Imagine you're in a large mall, cellphones going off everywhere, talking, etc. You're trying to listen to music on your iPod, talking to a friend on Skype, all this while trying to finish a school report. Hard, isn't it? Well, for the majority it would be. Some people are born with an excess amount of these chemicals making them very hard workers in stressful conditions. So we are mixing things, diluting our goals. This happens naturally for ADD people. We mix thoughts and emotions and act on impulse, not thinking before we speak.

ADD is also a learning disorder. Everyone is born with very few concentration chemicals in the brain. I don't know the medical word, sorry. Anyways, as we grow older, our discipline helps us learn to create these chemicals more often. I think the average attention span for anybody is their age (17) multiplied by 2 (34). This is not the case for ADD people. Since we can't learn to produce these chemicals, we are "slow. We produce them at a later age.

Now there are many ways to treat and help ADD people focus. Many of them are actually kind of like games. They involved mind flexing challenges of some sort, of constant changing images/sounds/colours and lights. I though I would see if this could work with Graal...the results were surprising! This works best on iPad since you have a larger screen to focus on, stretching your attention to more areas. This is walk I did:

First, I got on my horse to speed things up and ran around everywhere, focus just on the horse. Many people actually focus their attention to the objects ahead of them or around them, so they can calculate how to respond when they get there. ADD people are trained to think immediately. By focusing on my horse, I am focusing on a smaller part of the screen, not on what's coming up, so when a building does come up, I have to react to it by going around it without running into it.

Secondly, since the ipad keyboard is touchscreen and not physical, many people look at the keys as they type. On the iPod too. I like to look at what I'm writing and not at the keyboard. It's very hard for me but it trains me to react to visual mistakes. You are predicting where you're fingers are on the keyboard when you type, and if you make a mistake, you analyse your mistake so you know where your finger was at. I'd I meant to type S and I typed A, that means my finger is a little to the left. So I react to that visual mistake by moving my finger more to the right. This trains my hand-eye coordination, which ADD people lack greatly.

Lastly, I go into a cave where it's dark and ty to focus on my horse. This teaches me to adapt to colour and light change and react properly. In the end, my results leaded to me finishing 10 of 50 things on my to do list i have gathered in over a year. Yes, I have such an extreme case that I have out things off for an entire year. I'm very surprised and happy with my results. Graal was the single solution I could find after an entire year. Im sure this would work with any game, but they're usually specific games you play in therapy offices. I decided to test it out on Graal though, just for fun and now I'm glad i did.

Conclusion: yes, Graal can make you smarter if you lack a sufficient amount of brain chemicals.

Nice, that's actually really resourceful

Are you self diagnosed?

Hasn't it been shown time and time again, that prolonged exposure to Graal Online lowers your grade score by atleast 15%?

My english was 20% going better haha :P

you can play graal and be good in the school you only have to know the limit from playing a game

i agree... but another point for the original post. a friend of mine with adhd . got so annoyed at call of duty he hacked it . got banned and then was even more annoyed!!!

No, I've been diagnosed by a psychologist. She said it was mild, but I doubt it.

I wasn't talking about Graal making you smarter by basic use. I mean, it can be used to practice brain training for people with ADHD, ADD. You just have to know the exercises. Like a sport can hurt you if you don't do it right. Well, Graal isn't going to affect you positively unless you allow it.

Wow... Im not surprised that you never pass your classes in school... Because if you would pass... Im sure you wouldn't brought up this topic and that your brain cells have exceeded the normal limit, making you much smarter than the rest of us

no way someone with add can type something that long.
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My grades have actually decreased since I started playing Graal. =/

I have no clue what you're trying to say, but I've dropped out of school in Grade 9 because i was failing and couldn't focus enough to learn. I'll have to go to an adult school next Summer when I get a pension, which is money for my health condition (hypo plastic right ventricle syndrome).

If you're referring to my explanation of what ADD is and then making your assumption, let me explain some more points...

ADD people are highly focused in stuff they enjoy (for instance, Graal) and anything that relates in some way to that topic. They are sensitive people, so mentioning a word that they like can help their focus greatly. Even if it's entirely off topic.

ADD people also write quite a lot actually, because their mind wanders as they write, so they add more detail that necessary. With ADD people, it's either one way or the other. Lacking detail, or too much detail. If you read my post again, you'd notice how it can all br summed up in a single paragraph. Just like this post could as well, but it's already 2 paragraphs long. :/

.... /facepalm

Hypo plastic right vericle syndrome?...

This is a cool use of the game, but I think this would work for alot of games, I think you use the lantern in cave to guild house glitch it could help, you wouldn't be able to see what was coming up.

Hypo Plastic Right Ventricle Syndrome is the undefevelopment of the right part of the heart. Basically I was born with half of my heart, and had to get it re-wired at age 3. I have a massive scar for it too.

This is just a question but don't get pissed off too much about it: How many god damn disorders/syndromes do you have!? ._.