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Autism, Troubled childhoods, escapism and obvious mental illness.

You don't have to go outside. Playing vidya is easier than real life. For that run time you don't think about anything. You keep your focus on...

Communities like this typically start out as a by-autists-for-autists affair, so you've got some degree of instability just from that. Then...

I think a lot of people get into it because the barrier to entry for getting noticed is so low, the community for a game only has so many people...

Because it takes a shit ton of time to learn, and a ton of time spent practicing and doing the runs. Anyone can do a speedrun of a game they love...

It's interesting to contrast the speedrunners with e-sports people. You have the same sort of obsessiveness and austistic single-mindedness, but...