Table 5.

Illustrative examples of reasons provided by participants for finding the information useful.

	Illustrative example
Category	Control	Dyslexia-disclosure	Autism-disclosure
Information redundant	The information was so generic as to be useless in trying to formulate a strategy	They stated they were dyslexic, but I didn’t find that to be particularly useful information. It tells me nothing of their ability to perform the task	They just said they were autistic, which wasn’t really relevant
	While I understood what they was trying to share it was not useful to me	I guess it was useful but I’m not sure what being dyslexic has to do with rolling a ball through a maze	I did not know how to alter my playstyle through the information they shared with me, such as them being autistic
Information explained misunderstanding	They said they were not good at multitasking, which may explain why they did not notice my gate could have been unlocked	My partner shared they were dyslexic and had trouble with multiple tasks, and that might have explained why during one game they navigated through half the maze but failed to rescue me from the prison?	My partner explained that he was autistic which made it difficult for him to multi-task which explained why perhaps he forgot to do things in one of the games
	A little, he said he wasn’t good at multi-tasking (probably why he forgot to let me out as soon as he was able to) but he was good at maneuvering the ball	It tempered my frustration when my partner forgot to let me out of prison in one of the games	It was useful because I can somewhat understand how they performed the way that they did
Information led to greater tolerance	They told me they were good at steering, which they were, and they told me they weren’t great at multitasking which I had in mind when they forgot to free me until the end	It allowed me to be more empathic to the person controlling the other ball, and told me I didn’t need to worry about their control of the ball	He said as he was autistic he was not very good at focusing on multiple tasks at once, which made me more patient when I was locked in prison and only he could move
	I think I had left him confident and calm, so that we could play this game at our best	they said they were dyslexic but still good at following orders, I was ready to give them a bit more help of needed but they navigated just fine	They mentioned that they struggled to juggle multiple tasks at once due to suffering with autism. This was useful to know and was evident in some of the games that we played. As a result I tried to work as quickly as I could to complete my sections of the games, in order to compensate for times where my partner may have struggled to cope with multiple scenarios in the game