RiverGhost

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I agree, but I think I understand why I do it.

    TL:DR Maladaptive behavior that is however ultimately harmless since I don’t bother people.

    I was a “gifted child”; was always like 2 school years ahead, started uni at 15 and every single person I met would praise me for being the youngest. I was immature so it got to my head. I also have always looked much younger than I am, which also invites comments. Finally, I also have AuDHD and I’m constantly anxious about not acting my age and being too immature. So I try to look at other people’s ages to guide me in how I’m supposed to behave.

    All of this is maladaptive and I’ve gotten a lot better with time, and I’m still working on it, but I’m not particularly bothered about the actual fact of having an interest in people’s ages. I make sure I don’t ask them about it or bother them about it, but many just offer this information on their own.



  • I do read extremely fast in my native language (Spanish). Feels like entire sentences go straight into concepts and my brain builds a whole world based on what I’m reading.

    However I started reading in a verbalized way with my second and third languages (English and Swedish) because I was completely useless at pronunciation, while reading at a high level. So I had to learn the sounds and they started invading my reading, which I sort of resent.

    But the verbalization is still very mild; faint, monotone, non-enunciated.

    Some people talked about poetry and I hadn’t considered that my absolute lack of poetry-sense could be related. People have told me about the metrics and whatnot and it really doesn’t click. I have to sort of analyze a poem and explain it to myself in prose, and I imagine that defeats the purpose of poetry?





  • Are there more to chromosomes than exist in the text books or do they not exist?

    Yes.

    I don’t think anyone has said that chromosomes don’t exist? I’ve seen them with my own eyes when I worked in a genetics lab.

    ‘Science’ already knows about chromosomes not being the single factor. Sex traits happen in a bimodal distribution instead of binary.

    Statistically, the xx -> woman, xy -> man thing is going to apply for the majority because most people are cis. However, most of us have no idea what our karyotype is as it only gets taken when investigating something in particular.

    Besides that, the sry gene will not always be attached to a y chromosome.

    Besides that, sometimes a body will be insensitive to testosterone. Not developing male traits despite being xy and having sry on the y chromosome.

    Besides that, there are multiple variations of xyy, xxy, etc that result in different phenotypes. Some people consider themselves intersex but some cases are mild enough to not notice anything until later in life.

    If you mean that because these variations are a minority and therefore we can ignore them, then I don’t have much to say to you.

    I’m also on mobile and won’t start citing you articles because I’m still burnt out from my latest thesis. I’m sure you can find more info once you realize there’s more to it and can use some of the words in my post to guide your way.