Man it’s almost like society is broken and not our brains.
ancient hyperfixations
Submitted 2 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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discocactus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Soup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some people are broken. They’re the narcissists and psychopaths and people who refuse to address their trauma(having trauma is fine, doing nothing about it and making it everyone else’s problem is less so) who we keep handing power to for some fucking reason.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Those who seek power, rarely deserve it. And those who deserve it, rarely seek it.”
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
that’s a lot of autistic reindeer to herd.
daychilde@lemmy.world 1 day ago
M brain skipped over “herder” the first time and I was very very confused.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Rudolph, the autistic reindeer.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, if autism exists in animals (pretty sure i’ve heard that it does) i bet there are savants especially talented at communicating with humans.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 36 minutes ago
They’re called golden retrievers.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I read “hoarder” and everything made a lot of sense, but felt wrong.
daychilde@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Would explain why there were that many reindeer, though. lol
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 day ago
I misread “medical” as “mental.”. Not so far off, still, I think.
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So I get to endlessly catalogue stuff and be around creatures who don’t judge me and, best of all, I don’t have to deal with any humans.
Sign me up baby
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
and in the times you must speak to a human, it’s someone who’s coming to you deeply interested in your big tree diagram of reindeer
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So I get to talk at a rapid pace without any pauses whilst going into incredible detail about reindeer???
Stop I can only get so excited.
Zoabrown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think this is a good reminder that traits we label one way today could have been real strengths in different contexts. Deep focus and strong memory would’ve been incredibly valuable skills in many ancient communities. It’s all about perspective.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ancient people had to remember/memorize a lot more things just to get through their days, before writing existed.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, prehistoric life is sometimes depicted as simplistic, skipping the fact that hunter-gatherers knew the landscape and all plants, grasses and animals for kilometres around. Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel ‘Shaman’ does a decent job of depicting what life in those times might’ve been like.
Granted, I instead memorize my city’s streets and organization of my computer stuff.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
“Was that rock always there, or was it disturbed by a predator?”
“Hmm. That rock I remember, rough sandstone, 25 sides, angled south-east. I’m unsure of its neighbour though with 25 sides, angled south-south-east.”Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It takes a village to survive. Some to remember the exact differences between safe, fun, and deadly mushrooms and others to turn predators into prey.
tynansdtm@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Ah, I too saved this picture
Hexarei@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Grand Poolbah?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Some old autistic people unfortunately masked by developing an obsession with hypernormalcy.
Richboy50@woof.group 1 day ago
@fossilesque This does not surprise me at all. I used to work in the horse racing industry and there were legends of stable managers who had memorized the genealogy of the horses going back generations. Supposedly, these are the people who guided the horse breeding once upon a time.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 days ago
I initially misread that as ‘gynecological and medical history’ and it put an entirely different and quite unpleasant spin on the whole story.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
What?! It get’s lonely herding sheep!
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
Gynecology is part of medicine so it’s already included!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Reindeers are better than people. Sven, don’t you think that’s true?
Riverside@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Sven is more of a Germanic name, in Siberia reindeer herders are definitely not speaking Germanic languages.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Poor Sven. I have a daughter and son and I thought the way sven was treated in part 2 was so shitty, like they almost went out of their way to say “fuck this man, this is a woman story” I love female centric movies but this one felt mean. He was fully supportive and trying to help and they ditched him, ignored him, treated him like he didn’t exist. And all he could do was take it cause if he complains he an asshole right?
Again I have a son as well, so I don’t like when a movie has to elevate one gender or person by stomping on the other.wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It’s a line from a song, the reindeer’s name was Sven. But yes, I did think about that after I posted my comment…
And honestly even the reindeer herders in Scandinavia are probably mostly Saami
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Every tribe can use a Rain Man. 👍
pentastarm@piefed.ca 2 days ago
🎵 Reindeer are better than people..
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You don’t know until you try living amongst the reindeer.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
Boats just do many boats.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Respect
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Hey just so that you know, it is not polite to discuss reindeer count with outsiders.
But I know people just like that.
Ruthalas@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I am not clear if this comment is a joke or serious.
If serious, what do you mean, and why is that? I am curious.
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
It is serious. I have no clear explanation on “why”, it’s just a taboo, kind of good to know in case you happen to come to the reindeer herding area. I’ve learned it from basic reindeer herding dog training program orientation; I don’t have any reindeer, but I do have reindeer herding dogs. They only allow a few breeds there that naturally know the drill and can survive for hours having fun in savage frost.
Reindeers are so small IRL, about human-size, incredibly warm to touch, and they make sounds like pigs. They are also somewhat afraid of humans, unlike regular livestock, they usually run away from you same as from a dog and sometimes counterattack the dogs, which is scary. Herders would be happy to tell you about their life and everything, but just don’t discuss the head count.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
How do we categorize someone who is less than this at reindeer herding?
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 12 hours ago
I’m very bad at reindeer herding.
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 days ago
See also:
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Its still so upsetting that they send him to thz doctor who was like, “that thing that makes you happy and does not hurt anyone”, lets help you stop doing that.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
He might have been neglecting other responsibilities.
But yeah he hopefully could have kept it as a hobby!
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But was he actually cured, or did he instead just get better at hiding his compulsion?
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I immediately thought of this, and you beat me to it. Honestly it seems to be a very nuanced account of autism. It’s certainly unusual but bro got great joy from watching ships and people only found it a bit odd.