Well, it was way off on my age, but it correctly gendered me ad female. Which I find quite impressive as I am a transgender woman, I've only been on hormones for 4 months, and most humans aren't even correctly gendering in me yet.
More than anything, I'm curious to know what features it was that registered me as female. Was it as simple as the long hair, or some complicated subtle mix of many small details?
I've been on hormones for a little over two years now. Submitted several pictures from the last few months: it's consistently gendering me female (yay!) and a decade younger than I actually am (yay!), but it's saying that I'm ice cold "Hmm" (aw...).
What direction was it off on your age? I'm 31 (30 in the older pictures I sent), and it said I was 19-22 in all the pictures I tried.
Using the calculator for that service, I put in 50TB and 25 hard drives, and the estimated charges came out to $2435.75.
The point where snowball is cheaper is fairly low. 4TB on 2 drives is 194.86. Basically more than 5TB over 2 or more drives and it's cheaper to use snowball. Plus you have to pay to have the drives returned back to you.
So, you clearly do not have social phobia. Yes, it is a legitimate disorder, and it can be quite disabling when it's severe.
It's not about not being able to speak in public. Imagine suffering from panic attacks and not being able to leave your house for days, because you're afraid someone will say hi to you. That's social anxiety.
Your attitude "STOP IT. tell them to fit in" is the reason many people with social anxiety, and many other psychiatric disorders end up committing suicide.
> What happens next depends on if there are living aliens there, or just an old city.
But, when that mission arrives to inspect the lights, couldn't we expect that contact with alien technology, even if it is just an alien laser, to profoundly change our science?
Assuming, of course, we could even understand what we were looking at.
If you went back in time and gave Isaac Newton a smartphone but didn't tell him what it was, how it worked or even charged the batteries, it probably wouldn't change much of anything for a very long time. And that would possibly be a lot less alien in context than any actual alien technology we come across.
Assuming it even changes our science, which is not a given.
But let's assume it does. Our science has changed profoundly many times.
For example: Heliocentric solar system, Nuclear Bomb, and radio, just to give some of the most dramatic changes.
Did all that much change on Earth? Most people just went on like normal. Things changed, but slowly, there was no shock.
Can you imagine someone from long ago, who is told "We just found a way to speak to someone 300 miles away in an instant." They would probably go nuts imagining the immense change in peoples lives, in war, in commerce.
Yet, these changes actually happened, and while things changed, there was no turmoil.
The reality was not as dramatic as the expectation.
I think you're massively underestimating the amount of change.
Before technology most people lived on farms. Hardly anyone travelled more than a few tens of miles at most. Infant mortality was huge. Adult mortality was almost as huge. Living to fifty made you exceptional.
The average person had no education to speak of - no math, no ability to read or write, no knowledge of science, art, or culture.
The single biggest change is the fact that not only can most people read and write, but they have a vastly increased awareness of the world around them.
Now - imagine if that awareness was increased again to the interplanetary or galactic level. Imagine if live expectancy increased by a factor of two, or five, or ten. Imagine having access to a galaxy-sized Internet, with its own version of Wikipedia (and whatever the alien equivalent of Hacker News is).
Because they only have to live long enough to reproduce. There are studies showing people with adhd have a much higher risk of accidental (and non accidental) death.
Adhd is not a superpower. It's an incurable brain disorder. It fucking sucks.
I don't like to view it as an disorder, because that says there is a correct way that your brain should function. I think it's just different. Viewing it disorder is self-defeating for people with ADHD, it's like saying they think there is something wrong with them at all times, but there really isn't. They just find different ways to do things.
I've definitely known a few people who have used their diagnosis for a mild cognitive disorder as an excuse to exhibit it's negative symptoms. Knowing how to and proactively managing emotional and motivational responses is one thing, saying "I have ADD" and using that to be perfectly happy watching Netflix all day instead of doing your homework is entirely something else.
And I totally agree. Some people are given wrenches, other people hammers. The solution isn't to make people really good at tightening bolts with hammers.
It is starting to aggravate me that every time we have articles like this come up that people keep trotting out the crap explanations of "it's just another way of thinking", because they saw it in some TED talk.
No, it isn't. It's a fucking neurological disorder which affects dopamine production, which interferes with normal brain function.
Imagine sitting down to work on something you really want to finish, but you can't. You're reading reddit instead, because that gives you a quick dose of entertainment. You keep yelling at yourself to do the work, because it's your job on the line. But no, you'll end up looking at cat pictures, because, hey, cats. That's what ADHD is like.
Have you been to an ADD conference where you are surrounded by hundreds of similarly-wired brains? Neurotypical is defined by the local majority. In a hunter-gatherer society, slow reaction time means no dinner. Don't be fooled by labels which originate in specific social contexts. Environmental impedance mismatches can be addressed by changing the human or changing the environment.
You know what else means no dinner in a hunter society? Your spear breaking because you forgot to fire harden it. Scaring away the pretty because you inadvertently bumped into a tree (inadvertently bumping into things on a regular basis is an indicator of ADHD). In a gathering society: not gathering because a butterfly distracted you. That's the effect of ADHD.
ADHD doesn't make you some magical hunter, patience does. Reaction time has nothing to do with ADHD, it comes from paying attention when the stimuli comes about, something a person with ADHD can't do.
As for "normal", I base it off the figure of 95%. That is, our brains are different from 95% of humanity. That strikes me as a good definition of abnormal, better than "I surround myself with th those like me, so I'm totally normal".
If everyone has a spear-hardening "problem", there will be external structure and rituals to ensure that this activity is not forgotten. Reaction time is explicitly measured by one clinical test which diagnoses ADHD.
There is no normal, that's the main point. If you get enough people with "AD(H)D" in a room, and ask a few questions about preferred cognitive styles (sound, light, touch, motor movement) you will discover clusters of preferences and a wide range of differences.
The label ADHD is most useful as a search term for a vocabulary of common challenges. Naming any problem is necessary to develop shared solutions. Prior to the advent of this term, non-neurotypical people independently named their logistical challenges and independently re-invented solutions.
Are you familiar with the term hyperfocus? Is that a strength or weakness?
If you want to be really correct it's a simple label for what is otherwise a spectrum of symptomatic severity due to underlying neurological issues.
I've met plenty of people who are 100% ADHD, both parents, all their children, it is inheritable, and the degree to which each person needed treatment for their personal ADHD symptoms tends to vary a lot. ADHD isn't a binary condition, you can have ADHD tendencies, mild ADHD, severe ADHD, etc.
The frustration felt by those suffering with the worst symptoms when people fail to appreciate their condition is hard to fix. While Autism has been the subject of the decade thanks to a particularly disgusting pustule of a human being publishing a particular fraudulent paper in a medical journal, ADHD is quietly toyed with now and then. Most improvements to treatment for ADHD have been accidental and is further hampered by the usual concerns regarding psychoactive pharmacology, what is a legal treatment in one jurisdiction is an illicit narcotic in others.
We're all human, I like lots of other people, have ADHD. Consequently I'm going to post this as written rather than try to edit away the lack of a clear direction or good summation. I've learned to cut my losses on tangential trains of thought, this one has already lead to a rather mushy breakfast :-/
Really? I think it gives me an advantage with respect to my peers.
Can we really say that it is a brain disorder? All that we know is that people with ADHD don't fit into the cultural definition of normal, but that doesn't mean that the definition of normal is correct or that not being normal is a "disorder". How do you know it isn't just a slightly different model of cognition that suffers at some tasks but excels in others. Humans are very good at detecting errors, such as ADHD caused impairment, but not very good at quantifying or detecting potentially positive effects of something like ADHD.
After 35 years undiagnosed, I feel quite confident when I say there is no upside. Only lots of "if only I had known, I could have finished college", or "if only I had known, I would be the person running this company"...
I didn't know, and so I struggled mightily against myself to get to where I am today. In the few months during which time I have been medicated, I have made more career progress than any 5 other years prior.
"I took a drug and it had a nootropic effect" does not mean you had a brain disorder. What they give you to treat your "disorder" is amphetamines. Lots of people on Wall Street are enhancing their performance with cocaine. I'm sure this results in plenty of career progress - more energy, more confidence, etc. This does not mean they had a disorder beforehand.
This is like saying not knowing group theory or being a loud asshole who people have trouble getting along with is a disorder. These are also things that can be improved, possibly with the help of drugs. They are not disorders.
I don't. I often feel very bound to the 'operating hours' of the medication while friends can just start working at seemingly any time they want. If i take another pill there's no way i'm getting any sleep, but i still want to finish something up before calling it a night. It's just a constant struggle.
At this point i'm writing up my thesis, where tracking down, interpreting, and coherently organizing old notepads/napkins, papers, and result files is a full time job. If i want to keep my health (to actually sleep) i really only get 9-10 hours while the remaining 8 are anxiety that it's not getting done or frustration that i can't push out pages at any reasonable pace.
Your right. There are a lot of things that I struggle with, but over the years I have constructed a way to live which helps to minimise any difficulties I may face. I own very few things, I keep all my essential daily items in the same place every day and I have chosen a career where I don't have to deal with things that I struggle with.
The best advice I can offer is to accept your lack of control over some things. If I don't listen to my body and mind I will suffer. Like what you mentioned with sleep, I actually find it more beneficial to sleep than to work through the tiredness. That way I can come to the subject with a fresh mind.
Yeah - living long enough to reproduce in modern times is easy enough now - but it wasn't back in the day.
I do wonder if survival back in the day actually required the level of risk taking that adhd people are capable of. If you stayed in one place - maybe you ran out of food - things like that.
An important factor is the age of the mother at the time of her first child. If this age is earlier than the general population, there will be more generations in a given calendar time period. E.g. risk-seeking behavior among females could lead to early motherhood, which could be repeated in the child.
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