E29 Proud to Gayme - Caitlin Feeley: Games, Identity, and Learning

And I know I sometimes feel like I'm late to the game, like, how do you do fellow kids? But I think it's important to remember that like you are a growing person.

You don't stop growing at 25 or whatever.

Oh gosh, no.

Wait, isn't it like 26-

Yeah

... is when your brain stops developing or something like that?

Yeah.

It's like, I'm not a cognitive scientist, but yeah-

Yeah

... like our brains continue to, continue to develop cognitively as we get older and they go through, you know...

And, and the thing is like our brains cognitively change as we age too, you know? And that's, that's...

We think of that like exclusively in like, oh yeah, you get older and you forget things, but it's, it's, it's considerably more complex than that.

But I will leave that to the cognitive scientists.

[chuckles]

I know, I feel that.

I'm like, every time someone's like, "What'd you go to school for?" I'm like, "Graphic design and psychology." And they're like, "Oh my God, are you gonna psychoanalyze me?" I'm like, "I have an undergrad.

No offense.

It's basically like a bunch of intro courses, and we did-

Yep

... like a little bit of testing and learning how to write in APA format."

Yep.

You're probably safe with me, but I also like to think that it helped me learn how to talk to people and think about things from other perspectives.

Yeah.

I mean, I, I took a fair number of psych classes in college too.

We weren't allowed to minor in psychology, I think because everybody would.

And I know I sometimes feel like I'm late to the game, like, how do you do fellow kids? But I think it's important to remember that like you are a growing person.

You don't stop growing at 25 or whatever.

Oh gosh, no.

Wait, isn't it like 26-

Yeah

... is when your brain stops developing or something like that?

Yeah.

It's like, I'm not a cognitive scientist, but yeah-

Yeah

... like our brains continue to, continue to develop cognitively as we get older and they go through, you know...

And, and the thing is like our brains cognitively change as we age too, you know? And that's, that's...

We think of that like exclusively in like, oh yeah, you get older and you forget things, but it's, it's, it's considerably more complex than that.

But I will leave that to the cognitive scientists.

[chuckles]

I know, I feel that.

I'm like, every time someone's like, "What'd you go to school for?" I'm like, "Graphic design and psychology." And they're like, "Oh my God, are you gonna psychoanalyze me?" I'm like, "I have an undergrad.

No offense.

It's basically like a bunch of intro courses, and we did-

Yep

... like a little bit of testing and learning how to write in APA format."

Yep.

You're probably safe with me, but I also like to think that it helped me learn how to talk to people and think about things from other perspectives.

Yeah.

I mean, I, I took a fair number of psych classes in college too.

We weren't allowed to minor in psychology, I think because everybody would.