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every once in a while i learn some wild new piece of information that explains years of behavior and reminds me that i will never truly understand everything about my ridiculous adhd brain
ok what the fuck who was gonna tell me this isnt normal
what the fuck you mean to tell me that the way that i comically slide around things wasn't just me naturally shitposting
maybe the neurotypicals are just trolling us
THAT'S WHY I DO THAT?!?!?
it is in times like these that it is helpful to remember that all of medical science that isn't like, infectious disease, but PARTICULARLY psychiatry is a bunch of fake ass idiots who dont know how to do science, and when you hear about it on tiktok, it's being reinterpreted through somebody even dumber who is lying to you for clicks. as such you should treat anything they say as lies.
u do this wiggle because it's a normal thing to do.
anyways i looked at this paper. they stick people (n=32) on a wii balance board for 30 seconds and check how much the center of gravity moves. for AHDH patients, it's 44.4 ± 9.0 cm (1 sigma) and for non ADHD patients its 39.5 ± 7.2 cm (1 sigma)
so like. at best the effect size is 'wow. adhd people shift their weight, on average, a tiny bit more than non-adhd people, when told to stand still'.
in summary, don't trust tiktok, and:
^^^^
by "eyeball statistics" that's weak as hell. if you actually check the p-value with, like, welch's t-test you get p = 0.1 - not statistically significant at 0.05, which is a pretty low bar. if you think about it for like 5 seconds, you might remember that just about everyone walks like this when they're trying to go somewhere in a hurry.
especially for pop-sci around neurodivergence, and especially if your primary reaction is "that's so relatable!" or "I didn't realize that was only a <diagnosis> thing!" - and ESPECIALLY if that trait is something which would not be negatively impacting your life - I encourage you to take a sec to check whether there's any basis to it at all.
FUCKING THANK YOU.
I was here like 'DODGING OBJECTS IN YOUR WAY cannot POSSIBLY have anything to do with this shit', and I'm happy that someone else actually looked into it.
id like to add as well that though "postural sway" appears to be an actual technical term, it doesnt seem to refer to the behaviour described visually in the video (leaning your way around things when walking). Rather, in the study, it's described like this:
A non-academic article referencing the study described it like this:
so even if there were a statistically significant difference, it wouldnt even be referring to the behaviour shown in the video, but something much less visually striking.
so yeah dont trust random ass tiktok videos and tumblr posts
as soon as this motherfucker started talking about "the amount of grey matter in the brain" i knew id was some tiktok bullshit. Ive read about postural sway and that ain't it. Ty for correcting
I just think gay aesthetics are incomplete without fat people in them. Hairy people too. Fat and hairy is a bonus
Naw, LET HER COOK!
THE REAL QUEEN OF RAP!!!!
Leaving this in the tags was criminal
So I was made to feel old today...
Two decades today
Oh my fucking gods one of my favorite memes of all time is now twenty years old.
Oh my fucking gods I am 44.
Extremely niche but I want to look a little into colour theory or colour as a literary motif or really accessible colour science. Anyone’s read something good about this? (except for Goethe’s Theory of Colours which I have and is a blast and a little dizzying—Goethe you did it again you beautiful weirdo.)
Thank you so much for all your help, you’ve given me a ton to think about!
If anyone else wants to disappear into the rabbit hole, here are a few of the recommended texts available online:
- Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (also in French here)
- Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color
- Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red
- James Clerk Maxwell’s Scientific Papers, vol. II (a few of them on colour)
- Derek Jarman’s Chroma: A Book of Color
- Rudolf Arnheim’s Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of The Creative Eye
- Patti Bellantoni’s If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling
And my own only amount to— J. W. Goethe’s Theory of Colours and Rebecca Lindenberg’s Love, a Footnote.
This shot of a giant excavator in Germany slowly making its way to a coal site 25km away. [March, 1999]
the hatred for coal mining and coal power leaving my body when i see bagger 288
@transmasc-red-scout you are so fucking right for this.
that is a beast of burden release it into the fields
taking your own advice is so hard. it’s “make bad art” this and “kill your perfectionism” that until i sit down with an idea i like. the i have to execute it perfectly Or Else
tumblr trying to be like tiktok then trying to be like twitter then giving us the 3rd unreality inducing immersive ad, its staff members being condescending to the userbase, the marketing team trying to parasocialize their way into your pockets, youtube trying to do away with adblockers after upping the percentage of ads by 40% and making it so even if your video is demonetized watchers will still get them, youtube removing the dislike button then making it so you don't get a home feed if you have watch history turned off, google being able to remove your synched bookmarks if they don't comply with their policy, if i listed every way in which twitter has gotten worse in the last year this post will be as long as a novel, ai generated articles and images everywhere, google searches sucking ass in general, reddit charging for its api, KOSA being introduced into the US senate, tiktok in general, every social media under the fucking sun introducing log in walls, being unable to browse most sites on mobile from the sheer amount of popups taking over your screen WAUUUGH social media being products and thus requiring infinite growth and thus trying to introduce newer and newer shit that alienates its dedicated userbase. saturated sludge era of the internet
Antiabortion advocates behind the measure are targeting regions along interstates and in areas with airports, with the goal of blocking off the main arteries out of Texas and keeping pregnant women hemmed within the confines of their antiabortion state. These provisions have already passed in two counties and two cities, creating legal risk for those traveling on major highways including Interstate 20 and Route 84, which head toward New Mexico, where abortion remains legal and new clinics have opened to accommodate Texas women. Several more jurisdictions are expected to vote on the measure in the coming weeks. “This really is building a wall to stop abortion trafficking,” said Mark Lee Dickson, the antiabortion activist behind the effort.
While these restrictions appear to violate the U.S. Constitution — which protects a person’s right to travel — they are extremely difficult to challenge in court, said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California at Davis who focuses on abortion. Because the laws can be enforced by any private citizen, abortion rights groups have no clear government official to sue in a case seeking to block the law.
“The purpose of these laws is not to meaningfully enforce them,” said Neesha Davé, executive director of the Lilith Fund, an abortion fund based in Texas. “It’s the fear that’s the point. It’s the confusion that’s the point.”
Source: Washington Post
Some kneading techniques that I have observed
Mochi, claws out, DIRECTLY into my tender flesh: The Acupuncturist
some of you talk about “neurotypicals” like they’re a completely different species and not just the vague concept of people whose behaviors and capacities fall more consistently within a narrow range of culturally-approved norms
mmmmm that's cause they kinda are
are you trying to be cute and irreverent and obtuse on purpose or do just not realize that it implies fucking across neurotype is bestiality
You are aware that being a different species doesn't mean it's Beasty right? Like neanderthal and homosapiens are both humans but they are different species of human.
Species interbreed and often result in even hybrids or with one of the parents dominant traits.
It doesn't always result in healthy offspring but a lot of animals can interbreed too. (Looking at the Liger here.)
So yeah, if we wanted to say neuro differences count as different species then yeah interbreeding these groups would just be human subclasses mixing the same way a labrador and a husky can and that's not considered weird or fucked up.
I have some news you’re REALLY not going to like about whether humans breeding with other subcategories of humans is considered “weird or fucked up” and where embracing that kind of philosophy leads to
I don't think you understood my point.
Humans fucking other Humans = not beasty
I don't personally consider neuro differences a different species but if for whatever reason it was some how was true, it's not the same as being a animal abuser.
Also I don't consider them a different species but I do consider them to have enough differences that calling them "Neurotypicals" actually helps point out that we aren't all working on the same brain chemicals and that we can communicate something that does/doesn't effect one group or the other.
I’m ignoring your inane and scientifically inaccurate rambling about Neanderthals, on purpose, because the entire point is that the moment you start accepting or even cutesy-embracing the idea of coherent biologically-distinct static subcategories of people akin to separate species, you’re buying into the same bullshit that has gotten people rounded up and killed or forcibly sterilized.
The concept of neurodiversity is a call to solidarity and recognition of natural variation as the norm. Reifying the DSM is already skirting dangerously close to run-of-the-mill eugenics and modern phrenology. Swallowing the “we’re basically a different species :)” pill is also a great way to isolate and vilify every other person whose neurodivergence manifests differently than your own—including, yes, loads of people you think of and who may think of themselves as neurotypical.
‘no political connotation’
🤔
The reason why the Nazi chose it as a symbol, was because it was old, known, and found as petroglyphs and ingraved on 1000 year old tools. It was actually quite common before 1939.
it was a worldwide symbol of luck before the Nazis appropriated it and it still is in much of asia!
If you’d stop sniffing your own ass for long enough to consider that everyone other than you might not be an utter moron, you might have actually read the post in question. I know about the history of the swastika, everyone does.
Let’s be straight, here: are you trying to argue that Eric von Rosen, a National Socialist who married Hermann fucking Göring’s sister, was using the swastika ‘apolitically’? Was the man openly associated with Nazis just coincidentally using a traditional swastika with no relation to the fact that he was a Nazi? The swastika on the National Socialist poster there, on his article - was it being used with ‘no political connotation’, too?
Or, much more obviously, did the Nazi sympathiser use a swastika because he was inspired by the Nazis?
masturbatress
Ah yes, the 1918 Nazis in Finnish leadership
No, no, you’re right - when the National Socialist German Workers Party was founded two years later, there didn’t exist any National Socialists yet. They just decided to found the party in advance, and then make some - it’s not like they were already a significant enough political force to warrant forming a political party.
Indeed, the fact that the person who introduced the swastika to the Finnish air force was himself openly a national-socialist was probably just a coincidence. From your own noted article:
That Finland allied with Nazi Germany, that it maintained the use of the swastika throughout WW2, that Mannerheim himself participated in planning Operation Barbarossa and installed the German nobility into power in his short-lived monarchy - all of this just goes out the window, because the NSDAP wasn’t officially founded until 23 months later. Very good! I concede, of course!
