growingkittens

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by growingkittens 1y ago
There will always be humans who take advantage of a system. Why do you, like the parent commenter, think that is in question here? No one here is espousing the extreme position you put in quotes.
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by growingkittens 1y ago
This boils down to "I think you are wrong because you are not an authority figure."
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by growingkittens 1y ago
There will always be humans who take advantage of a system, that is not in question. Believing that "too many" autistic people are using it as an excuse - an entire category of people - is bigotry.
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Again, psychiatry is in its infancy. Many professionals use outdated models or stereotypes in practice. Living as an autistic individual can make it easier to clock other autistic people, because it's rare to meet someone who functions
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by growingkittens 1y ago
A system with one perspective is a system waiting to fail. Autistic individuals have systemic changes in their mind and body which let them see life from a different perspective. People with executive function disorder have issues with rapi
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I estimate that at least 1/8 of all people I have ever met are on the autism spectrum. Around 1/4 to 1/2 of all people I have ever met have some form of executive function disorder. Psychiatry is in its infancy. To see autism
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Writing a specification for a personal library app in the hopes I can get AppSheet + Gemini to make one for me. I'm working on library science in general, so it will hopefully implement ideas I have about book classification and entity
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I have found that many areas of human knowledge are massively disorganized. Everything is also siloed; knowledge that could easily apply to other domains is hidden by things like specialized terminology. I think it is because science is s
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by growingkittens 1y ago
When I was a child, my mother told me that it was like I "wanted to be miserable." I didn't want to be miserable - I was autistic, ADHD, and brain damaged, but undiagnosed on all counts.
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Considering that psychiatry is in its infancy, your statements have a level of finality that isn't warranted at all .
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by growingkittens 1y ago
"True CPTSD" doesn't exist as a diagnosis yet in the DSM. Referring to it that way is highly disingenuous. I was recently diagnosed as "AuDHD". I noticed that doctors who don't understand anything outside of de
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by growingkittens 1y ago
> I would expect that, for cultures who's members score below average on IQ tests from the US, an equivalent IQ test created within that culture would show average members of that culture scoring higher than average members of US cu
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Additional note. Since it is my own description and it sounds familiar to you, if you want to discuss it further my email is in my profile.
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Many people fall into a trap of thinking "we catch the bad guys now, not like in the old days ." I'm sure people were saying it in the 90s, 80s, 70s...every era of advancement involves experiencing technology before it is wi
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by growingkittens 1y ago
It is my own description, based on patterns I've seen over my lifetime.
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I've talked about how intergenerational trauma has affected my family before, although I didn't mention it started in 1918 when my great great grandfather killed my great great grandmother in a murder suicide, leaving my great gra
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Or a byproduct of sustained trauma being more prevalent in modern society. There was a large shift in the way children are raised in the past 100 years, from community to individuality. Entire generations of people whose childhoods prepar
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I know that traumatized human brains tend toward negativity. I don't believe it is a natural human condition, though. With trauma, the instincts you mentioned start applying to the wrong situations - trauma rewires the brain. "Min
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Framing can be more difficult, but one "trick" with a telephoto lens is to find a neat detail to focus on and adjust the frame around the neat detail.
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Metacybernetics is the only obscure word on that list, and it refers to all of the first-order cybernetics, second-order cybernetics, etc. You missed the opportunity to ask a simple question - what is metacybernetics? - and decided everythi
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by growingkittens 1y ago
That happens in system dynamics a lot, actually - there are many independently developed theories in many different disciplines that do not intertwine historically at all. I have met multiple people who work with systems mathematically on a
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by growingkittens 1y ago
This article does not begin to cover systems thinking. Cybernetics and metacybernetics are noticably missing. Paul Cilliers' theory of complexity - unmentioned. Nothing about Stafford Beer and the viable system model. So on and so fort
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I remember the same thing. That doesn't mean they knew how to teach us to "learn how to learn". Neither does it mean that the underlying education system supported that goal. Same goes for user-centered design. Trying to make
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I notice that many palettes tend to follow the "traditional" color wheel strictly, without defining pink as a separate color on the main wheel.
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Exactly. I'm not able to memorize multiplication tables or even listen to math lectures - I can't hold more than one or two numbers in my head before they start disappearing. However, I am capable of learning and using math to an
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by growingkittens 1y ago
They're anti-college because of general education classes, which get in the way of the making money part or seem useless to their specialty. Einstein had a few things to say about this. [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I accidentally started using Pinterest to organize infographics on my phone, which led to resurfacing material on a daily basis. The process of organization with the app on my phone is itself mindless enough that I can focus on the meaning
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Accelerated tracks would produce the top tier, which begin in elementary school - so it's a matter of how much your parents invested in your education before school. Any child can technically enter the accelerated track at any grade. T
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by growingkittens 1y ago
All of these decentralized social media concepts were/are too technically complicated for too long during the Twitter debacle. Even now, the top results for "how to use Mastodon" have jargon incompatible with mainstream usage
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I am a "noncoder" because of a number of reasons. My best friend is a "coder" and still starts instructions with "It's easy! Just open the terminal...". Unfortunately, I do advanced knowledge work, and the

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