notwhoyouthink
@notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
- Comment on I was a husky boy and look how I turned out 2 weeks ago:
I was a kid-tween during the ‘husky’ era and can tell you it never implied athleticism in the slightest.
It was a nice word for ‘chubby’, cos marketing.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I definitely didn’t think it through, because too small lol.
I too suffered the graphite mark and even had it transfer to my face via scratching an itch. Very embarrassing as a kid!
I also had a tough time with spiral notebooks, markers, and craft scissors.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
I’ve thought of this so many times and I agree with you.
As we’ve essentially homogenized human society and the roles required to sustain said society, we (neurodivergents) have indeed become less and less fit for the environment we’ve chosen to make.
I once heard this great take on neurodiversity’s role in creating groups of people with ‘specialized’ functions that served the larger group as a whole (I’m taking pre-modern/hunter gatherer tribes). What we call neurodivergence was simply a brain wired to complement or even enhance neurotypical brain functions and vice versa. The brain was evolving to become as diverse as the rest of our bodies, as equity helps ensure survival.
The way I see it, we are like puzzle pieces that fit together to make each other stronger as a unit. We are not simple shapes that one stacks together in an attempt to make structure. I’m sure there’s a much better analogy out there, but this is what my mind has been working on for some time now.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, I’m so sorry your dad went through that. Like how is smashing a child’s hand less of a problem than that child using their ‘other’ hand to write?
Honestly, I’d really like to know what people were so concerned with. All I ever heard was ‘it’s not the correct way’, and the only evidence my mind can stretch to support this is based on the fact that sure, it’s a right handed world and certain things are more efficiently and even safely used with a right hand. I’ve also heard a few cultural reasons regarding cleanliness but these are from cultures far removed from mine and obv never given as an actual reason (to me directly) why using one’s right hand over their left is preferred.
Idk shit like this and many other examples just remind me of how quickly others turn to control and rigidity when faced with something they don’t understand/doesn’t ‘fit’ into their mental presets. This post officially has me in my feelings this morning.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
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Ah since some of us are sharing our childhood experiences with being left handed:
I am ambidextrous, like many lefties. While learning to write my letters in Kindergarten (age 5 for non-US peeps), my teacher noticed that I’d switch hands when the one writing got tired. She didn’t like this at all and kept telling me that I needed to choose one. She actually made quite a stink about it so I chose my left, idk why the left specifically.
I still write with my left, despite trying to retrain back to writing with both at different times in my life. I feel like a mini superpower was taken from me.
Interestingly enough, I’ve noticed that my large motor skills are best used with my right side (arm, leg, hand), and my small motor skills with the left. I think it’s a leftover from being truly ambidextrous, or it may be common amongst left handed people. Idk…the very few others I’ve asked seem to be left handed/sided exclusively.
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
Something kinda romantic about that actually…it’s like he gets to live on genetically and be raised by his brother to be the person he was aways supposed to be.
- Comment on It makes you feel good to be nice to others 2 weeks ago:
It’s a seam that’s ‘pinched’ so to speak, right in the crack of the ass.
Funnily enough it looks like a vertically stretched asshole when not being worn.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
I agree with you 100%. When the prospect of a health emergency or chronic condition means bankruptcy, people can’t help but look for alternatives.
Under a capitalist system where anyone can sell ‘supplements’ and any other random ‘treatment’ under the radar long enough to make a quick buck, misinformation abounds and the desperate roll the dice.
Health care isn’t just that. It’s what keeps families together, it’s what keeps communities together, and it’s a tragic farce that too many of us see it as a privilege and not a right.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
You’ve put a long form version of a theory I also have been thinking of: we need to do better for future generations by teaching and actually supporting critical thinking skills. I’ll also add empathy, which supports critical thinking and is not always hard wired in every human brain. Both are skills, much like emotional regulation and resilience. Personally, I would have benefited greatly by learning critical thinking and interpersonal skills at the age of 16 vs. whatever ‘algebra’ is supposed to be.
Essentially, and TLDR: We need to teach young developing minds how to think, not what to think. We can do even better by teaching said minds that while we are not defined by our thoughts, we have much to learn by observing them instead.
- Comment on Gutted 3 weeks ago:
You know what’s wild about this? Pretty sure those are samples.
They’re the exact size of sample toothpaste I get in the plastic bag with every dentist visit.
Mama got conned.
- Comment on It has what kids want 3 weeks ago:
I mean, you’re not wrong. And I don’t blame people looking for affordable answers in a system that bankrupts the sick…
However I do blame clown leadership and those that profit and gain power from said people, and this cow pie looking mfer is climbing to the top of that list.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five…Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It’s the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!\
(Insert small print fast voice) The Federal Highway commission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She’s a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)
Drive Canyonero!
Woah Canyonero!
Woah!
- Comment on It has what kids want 3 weeks ago:
Wait is that why he talks like that tho?!
He was born during the time when conventional wisdom for expectant mothers’ concerns about weight was a simple recommendation for increased cigarette consumption.
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 5 weeks ago:
Is there video
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 1 month ago:
You sonofabitch I’m writing this because I can’t upvote twice. Capital joke!
- Comment on I think it's a compliment. 1 month ago:
That was the whole point of the change right? ‘Ugly’ to attractive in order to learn some lesson? Dude in the pic looks like John Cena (sp?) had a baby with Shrek and he does supplement vlogs now.
- Comment on Anon listens to British music 2 months ago:
If you find yourself drunk anywhere in Britain, start singing this song really loudly and you will make scores of new friends who also like to be drunk while singing loudly. Good times.
- Comment on Thank you, Nvidia 🙏😇 2 months ago:
A lot of ppl hadn’t, esp those in power that now claim him to be some sort of martyr.
- Comment on hostile design: sink 2 months ago:
Just get a different faucet, that sink is criminally small but would be more expensive to replace.
My theory: Someone purchased the sink and faucet separately likely at a discount, and either ignored the issue or wasn’t informed after install.
- Comment on bold words 2 months ago:
Leave him now.
- Comment on Word up 2 months ago:
Naw man, the torn up bottom hem is a vibe.