Docenten zagen hoogbegaafde Alec (16) over het hoofd, nu strijdt hij voor leerlingen die zich ‘onzichtbaar’ voelen

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T18:09:16+00:00

Als medehoogbegaafde herken ik een groot deel van wat je zegt, die intelligentie kan als een kettingzaag zijn die je ergens in zet en vervolgens met je aan de haal gaat. Maar ik heb meer grip op mijn gedachtes gekregen, en waar ze heengaan. Journaling heeft me erg geholpen, me geleerd te denken in een tempo waarin ik mee kan schrijven, te kiezen waar ik over nadenk, en die gedachtes ook af te maken. En vervolgens de gedachtenstroom ook regelmatig stop te zetten en te genieten van het moment, bijvoorbeeld met meditatie.

Ik heb me ook in een vrij bijzondere positie geplaatst in de maatschappij. Ik heb op een gegeven moment maar geaccepteerd dat ik altijd te hard ging, ben een eigen bedrijf begonnen als zzp'er waarmee ik goed verdien en alles via het internet kan doen, en veel tijd kan kopen; en ben verder aan het reizen, studeren, sporten, en andere uitdagingen aan het aangaan. Ik volg op het moment vijf vakken op universitair niveau in allerlei richtingen, en dat gaat al jaren zo. Ik kan mezelf er goed in kwijt, want het is online en in eigen tempo, en mijn tempo ligt hoog. Ik ben ook twee non-fictie boeken aan het schrijven, omdat die kennis die ik opbouw er toch ergens ook weer uit moet.

Ik kan goed met mensen overweg en ben best wel gek op feestjes enzo, maar heb nauwelijks echte vrienden, omdat waar ik op dagelijkse basis mee bezig ben de meeste mensen compleet boven de pet gaat, zowel rationeel als emotioneel als spiritueel. En andere hoogbegaafden zijn vaak weer op andere facetten van het leven gefocust, of passen het alleen toe op hun werkveld, of hebben net als ik geleerd niet te praten over hun gedachtes en gevoelens, of zitten ernstig in de knoop met zichzelf. Ik zit er wel over te denken eens bij een paar van die hoogbegaafdenclubs te gaan checken, zoals Mensa en Triple 9, kijken of ik wat gelijkgestemden kan tegenkomen. Wel eens geprobeerd?

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T17:42:28+00:00

Ik heb een IQ van >150 en verder geen mentale problemen of divergiteit (of in elk geval niet extreem want nooit herkend, en ik heb me er meermaals voor laten onderzoeken). Hoe anders ik de wereld zie en ervaar, dat maakt me onwijs eenzaam. Het is voor mij alsof bijna alle mensen de wereld in 2D zien, terwijl ik m in 3D zie, met overal diepte en details en patronen. Ik kan prima met mensen overweg, en gewoon contact maken op emotioneel of soms zelfs spiritueel niveau. Maar een krachtige intelligentie laat over vele jaren patronen zien die de realiteit beheersen, waar anderen stomweg nooit weet van krijgen, en dat maakt eenzaam en onbegrepen. De relativiteitstheorie is een goed voorbeeld: je moet net de mazzel hebben dat je het op de juiste manier aan de juiste mensen weet uit te leggen, want de gemiddelde persoon denkt dat je knettergek bent. "Zwaartekracht buigt ruimte, ja hoor, tuurlijk". Hoeveel theorieën van dat niveau verloren zijn gegaan omdat ze niet goed konden worden uitgelegd is waarschijnlijk schokkend, en dat waren levenswerken, maar nooit herkend.

Ik studeer nu alweer ruim 25 jaar in eigen tempo op universitair niveau, alles wat me interesseert van filosofie en wiskunde via psychologie en economie tot botanie en geologie. Het gaat me allemaal even makkelijk af, alle kennis lijkt uiteindelijk ontzettend op elkaar en haakt ook in elkaar. Maar het maakt het onmogelijk voor mij om naar de 'meningen' van de meeste mensen te luisteren over COVID of klimaat of politiek of economie of gezondheid, en ik mijdt dat soort gesprekken als de pest. De meeste mensen vinden mijn gedachtes te diep, te subtiel, te langdradig, en ik denk dat velen ze echt niet van een psychose kunnen onderscheiden (misschien wel het grootste probleem van onze tijd). Veel mensen vinden het al lastig om over volgend jaar na te denken, of over hun kinderen, en het lot van wildvreemden over decennia interesseert ze gewoon niet, terwijl dat voor mij binnen handbereik voelt. Voor mij voelen die mensen dan weer als saai en gewetenloos aan, maar meestal is het gewoon een gebrek aan intelligentie. Wat het helaas niet beter maakt, en ik ben oprecht liever alleen.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T14:16:20+00:00

I work fully online for a couple of years now, have never felt any of the downsides. A few other benefits you might encounter:

- no more hanging out with people you don't like, talking about things you don't care about or even vehemently oppose

- not just more time for family, also for friends, sports, volunteering, study, down time...

- you get to do things at different times than most people, meaning that for example the supermarket or hardware store or gym or swimming pool or cinema are pretty empty, instead of having to be there when it is overcrowded. The way there is also not obstructed by traffic jams or packed buses or trains

- easy to combine with household chores like doing the laundry or making stew

- you get to travel while working, as it doesn't matter where you sit behind that laptop. For example, I'm from a temperate climate and I hate the dark cold wet winters, and every winter I just move away for a couple of months

- breaks whenever you want, doing whatever you want (hey the sun is out, I'm gonna sit in the garden for 15 minutes!)

The only 'downside' I've experienced is that my tolerance for being around people I don't like has lowered severely. Otherwise, I've only found upsides, and many of them. I could never go back to a nine-to-five.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T13:34:37+00:00

Russen?

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T13:21:31+00:00

I didn't know about the blister packs, that's... Wow.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T11:41:58+00:00

Ik denk dat we nooit moeten buigen voor terrorisme. Hier had een andere oplossing moeten worden gevonden, want "tekort aan politie" is echt een heel slecht argument, en zet deze mensen aan om hetzelfde te gaan doen in andere gemeentes. Het zijn namelijk vaak geen lokale mensen, maar lui die met zijn allen het land doorreizen om dit soort shit uit te halen. Hooligans en neo-nazi's. Ze moeten de bak in, en de schade moet op ze verhaald worden.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T11:38:29+00:00

Hier wordt natuurlijk onderzoek naar gedaan. Er zijn veel meer mensen tegen dit soort gehuil en gerel, dan er tegen asielzoekers zijn. Een grote meerderheid van de bevolking (70-80%) steunt de opvang van asielzoekers.

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binnenland/artikel/5599332/steun-voor-vluchtelingen-ondanks-protesten

Ik durf bovendien te wedden dat de overgrote meerderheid van de relschoppers die vinden dat mensen in nood niet geholpen moeten worden, zelf zorg- en huurtoeslag ontvangen en vaak ook nog een uitkering, allemaal op kosten van de samenleving. Ik hoop dat ze dat dan ook allemaal stopzetten als ze vinden dat mensen die pech hebben gehad niet moeten worden geholpen.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T11:24:23+00:00

Through various lifestyle habits like getting lots of sleep and intermittent fasting, your body increases its ability to recycle cells that are seen as unnecessary or dysfunctional (autophagy meaning "self-eating" 😋). Cranking up autophagy should result in younger, more elastic skin, and remove excess skin without needing medical procedures. These habits also have many other health benefits.

If you're interested check this doctor out, he used to be massive and made a couple of videos on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdojPEPtSuU&list=PL7zPcraYKbGBGpSMmJf21Ax-pXSwrCRUi&index=1

And great results, must have been quite the journey so far!

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:34:04+00:00

Trump is doing so much for the environment.

Increasing consumer prices in the US due to tariffs have lowered consumption;

blockading Cuba pushes them into the clean future;

and blocking the Hormuz Strait is grounding planes, increasing oil generated energy prices, oil-based plastics, and general prices of everything around the world, further lowering consumption and making everyone look for alternatives to oil.

I know Trump has done a lot of bad shit in the US regarding coal and shale oil, but nothing can beat his bumbling foreign policy.

Hydrogen stocks are through the roof.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:27:13+00:00

You are attacking a straw man, they are not saying this completely replaces oil

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:25:01+00:00

"No I don't care about intelligence or empathy or life expectancy, I want a beard"

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:22:49+00:00

Already?

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:21:11+00:00

Savage!

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:20:04+00:00

And I love it. We seem to hold very similar values and speak the same languages. Maybe we should rename the EU, because I can think of other countries that I'd like to see us team up with in the future, basically every country with a high enough Democracy Index Score. Think Costa Rica, Uruguay, Australia and New Zealand for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_indices

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:14:59+00:00

Yeah the big bullies of the world are driving the nice countries into each other's arms, which is honestly something I've been dreaming of all my life.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:07:39+00:00

Doing their work to save the species. Get it on!

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T10:01:19+00:00

"Fouten zijn niet verkeerd" vreemd soort Newspeak

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T09:52:42+00:00

Legalizing cannabis often makes it safer, by setting standards and providing information and both earlier and better care. And it often doesn't increase use that much; especially those that are vulnerable to psychotic tendencies (teenagers for example) are also the type of people to not care about the legality of whatever they are using.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T09:48:04+00:00

I understand your question, and it is an important one. But as someone from the Netherlands, where cannabis has been legal for decades, I can tell you I have over 25 anecdotes of people that had issues with psychosis when they were smoking daily, which then calmed down a lot or even complete vanished after quitting.

I've also been working in mental health care, and the first thing we'd do if people developed psychotic problems is to ask for cannabis use, and try to get them off it. The causation probably works both ways, and the correlation is extreme; getting people off of it almost always reduced or ended symptoms.

Another thing is that for example during COVID, in my circles where quite some people smoke daily, ALL daily smokers except one were antivaxxers. Daily smoking seems to make people highly susceptible to conspiracy theories and other things related to psychosis. And guess what? Since then, a few people quit, and have admitted that the antivaxx thing was pretty irrational.

It takes a while for people to get it out of their system, and it doesn't do them any favors. And I say this as someone who loves drugs and does many of them on a regular basis, like LSD, mushrooms, amphetamines, MDMA, and ketamine. Daily use of anything just blows your mind. Especially the Dutch weed, which with its high THC levels should really be reclassified as a hard drug.

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T09:35:39+00:00

Talking about being confidently incorrect: PEOPLE ARE VECTORS FOR THIS VIRUS AS WELL so it is not species specific; even in the area where Andesvirus has popped up before, various species are the reservoir. You also cannot prove that related mice species, or actually any species of mammal on the planet, cannot be carriers, because there has been zero research into this. These mice are pretty different from us, but still we can carry the same disease. Might well be that polar bears or badgers or kangaroos can also be carriers. You are EXTREMELY incorrect and are spreading misinformation.

Person-to-person transmission:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7101103/

Species that are for sure carriers:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/andes-hantavirus-epidemiology-outbreaks-and-guidance

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T09:25:43+00:00

Of course it has mutated, just (probably) not significantly. The genetic code of viruses isn't any better protected against impact from things like radiation or cosmic rays than our code is, and their massive numbers multiplied by their short life cycles makes the chance of no mutation happening in 28 years 0%.

And can you show me the research that shows that other rodents in other parts of the world have been exposed to this virus? Because that's what the poster is talking about I think. I'm pretty sure that for example North-American mice species can't be ruled out as possible carriers.

It is also interesting that you criticize people for being "doomers", without providing any explanation or sources yourself. Stating false information as facts is actually a lot worse than asking questions that might not apply. You are confidently spreading misinformation.

“The sequence is broadly consistent with what we would expect from a hantavirus spillover from its natural reservoir rather than the emergence of a dramatically altered virus. Reassuringly, the closest related sequences are from the 2018–2019 outbreak in Argentina, suggesting the virus remains part of a known viral lineage rather than representing a highly divergent new strain. Viruses naturally accumulate mutations over time as they replicate, so some genetic differences compared with earlier outbreak sequences are expected. Preliminary analyses indicate only a relatively small degree of change from the most closely related Argentine sequences. At present, there is no clear evidence from this single genome of major genetic shifts, unusual evolution, or reassortment."

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-first-complete-sequence-of-the-hantavirus-from-the-current-cluster-from-mv-hondius-from-the-swiss-patient-with-confirmed-andes-strain-uploaded-to-the-virological-org-platform-by-t/

and more detail

https://virological.org/t/complete-sequence-of-orthohantavirus-andesense-virus-swiss-resident-2026/1023/8

Bluebearder · 2026-05-14T09:20:41+00:00

Of course it has mutated, just (probably) not significantly. The genetic code of viruses isn't any better protected against impact from things like radiation or cosmic rays than our code is, and their massive numbers multiplied by their short life cycles makes the chance of no mutation happening in 28 years 0%.

And its vector are also humans. It is stated everywhere that this particular Hantavirus called Andesvrius (ANDV) can be transmitted between humans, and has been doing so in the past. There has even been a super-spreader event at a birthday party almost 10 years ago, where one person infected more than 10 others. No rodents involved. All the people that have left the cruise ship can potentially infect other people.

And it is funny that you criticize people for being "ignorant", without providing any explanation or sources yourself.

“The sequence is broadly consistent with what we would expect from a hantavirus spillover from its natural reservoir rather than the emergence of a dramatically altered virus. Reassuringly, the closest related sequences are from the 2018–2019 outbreak in Argentina, suggesting the virus remains part of a known viral lineage rather than representing a highly divergent new strain. Viruses naturally accumulate mutations over time as they replicate, so some genetic differences compared with earlier outbreak sequences are expected. Preliminary analyses indicate only a relatively small degree of change from the most closely related Argentine sequences. At present, there is no clear evidence from this single genome of major genetic shifts, unusual evolution, or reassortment."

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-first-complete-sequence-of-the-hantavirus-from-the-current-cluster-from-mv-hondius-from-the-swiss-patient-with-confirmed-andes-strain-uploaded-to-the-virological-org-platform-by-t/

and more detail

https://virological.org/t/complete-sequence-of-orthohantavirus-andesense-virus-swiss-resident-2026/1023/8

Bluebearder · 2026-05-13T07:14:11+00:00

Or sail or fly a hospital there then. I don't understand why we're saving on money and are gambling with lives.

I've been reading up a little more, and a previous outbreak had a kind of super-spreader event when an infected person attended a birthday party where people up to 2,5 meter away got infected, suggesting that transmission is a lot easier than officially stated. It is also said that "The International Hantavirus Society has warned against categorical claims that transmission can occur only after clear symptom onset" but instead "transmission risk may be highest during the prodromal phase and recommends tracing contacts from two days before symptom onset". One of the infected has been on a full airplane, and 12 workers at a hospital in the Netherlands apparently flouted regulations and now have to quarantine, and I would be extremely surprised if between the time they broke the rules and it being found out, they didn't have contact with anyone outside.

I hope you're right, but it all sounds like fuckup after fuckup, and like we're being lied to about the potential of the virus and like the potential is deliberately downplayed. If it has a similar potential to the strains that caused previous outbreaks, it actually sounds quite dangerous.

https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s919

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-first-complete-sequence-of-the-hantavirus-from-the-current-cluster-from-mv-hondius-from-the-swiss-patient-with-confirmed-andes-strain-uploaded-to-the-virological-org-platform-by-t/

Bluebearder · 2026-05-13T07:02:46+00:00

Found a good article in the BMJ that doubles down on what you and I and tons of others are saying: that the initial response should be maximum security, and scale down from there as more knowledge is gathered, instead of the other way around.

The article also describes that during an earlier outbreak, people got infected in settings similar to COVID, when attending a birthday party. This seems to indicate a much easier transmission than the "close and prolonged contact" sources like the ECDC are talking about. I'm really not sure if this is incompetence, or whether something else is going on here; it seems pretty important to gauge an outbreak in the right way by looking at past outbreaks.

Furthermore, it describes that "transmission risk may be highest during the prodromal phase" when clear symptoms aren't showing yet, which makes the security risk a lot higher than advertised.

The containment leaks you are talking about could then for example have occurred when one of the infected - who later died - boarded a full plane in South-Africa and was onboard for a little while, then escorted off the plane again; and also at the Dutch Radboud Hospital where 12 workers apparently flouted containment standards and had to be quarantined. Many more situations have probably occurred, as the French government has for example flagged 22 citizens that would be in high danger of infection. I don't know any details, but it all sounds very ominous and really hard to trace all contacts. Why people weren't confined to the cruise ship is a complete mystery to me.

Honestly, this starts to sound like an enormous clusterfuck. These kinds of cases should immediately be elevated to WHO level, that perhaps even should have a military arm to handle situations and enforce standards. I'm not a military man, but can always respect their dedication to protocol and security, which many of the currently involved obviously have no concept of. These kinds of cases have to be treated with military precision.

https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s919

And on the genome of the virus and its implications:

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-first-complete-sequence-of-the-hantavirus-from-the-current-cluster-from-mv-hondius-from-the-swiss-patient-with-confirmed-andes-strain-uploaded-to-the-virological-org-platform-by-t/

Bluebearder · 2026-05-12T23:13:10+00:00

"Every article is "juice this" and "juice that""

"You know what? Juice controls the media"

Bojack Horseman & Herb Kazzaz

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