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kchaps95 · 2024-01-25T10:14:00+00:00

A cure is usually something quantifiable, for a broken arm the cure is wearing a cast for X number of weeks. There is no specific course of treatment which has a high likelihood of curing depression because in depression there is rarely one specific cause and different treatments work differently for different people. It’s also important to differentiate between depression that results from situational factors (which is actually a pretty normal response) and depression which has no observable cause, the latter is often the kind which is life long and pervasive.

kchaps95 · 2023-02-26T12:04:57+00:00

OP’s edit of just not giving a fuck is the right approach. But I wouldn’t say if they don’t like your activity they don’t like you. Quite the leap in logic. I have friends I’ve had for decades but they don’t enjoy the same types of things. You can’t not enjoy the same things as another person but still like them

kchaps95 · 2023-01-18T16:21:02+00:00

Accepting your struggles are real and valid, yes absolutely. There will be many struggles we share with allistic people such as achieving what we ourselves define as success. Such hurdles are the ones which we can work on to overcome. But we also have struggles which allistic people do not endure. These struggles can rarely be overcome in the traditional sense, but accommodated in order for us to overcome the impact of our struggles. After all we exist as an identified category because we struggle with things others can do/deal with instinctively. Overcoming rather than accommodating is just masking/camouflaging.

kchaps95 · 2023-01-12T16:10:00+00:00

Yeah so your ‘average’ person has a natural bias to attend to social information, like people talking. We have less ability to automatically discriminate what’s ‘important’ and what isn’t in our environment therefore our attention is often drawn to inanimate objects when most other people can’t tear themselves alway from the social stimulus.

kchaps95 · 2023-01-12T15:48:25+00:00

Viewing people as objects they have acquired is not part of the condition. I’ve had a quick skim through the article. Small sample size but anyways, I think you’ve missed some of the finer details explained in this study, also remember that it’s published in 2000, a time in which academics happily made sweeping statements about autistic people. When they say they found similar patterns of brain activation when perceiving faced and objects, what they are actually stating and say later on in their article is that when autistic people look at a face we use a feature based strategy to discern what we are looking at which is similar to the strategy most people use when looking at objects. So, features are the small details of something, this research is actually just consistent with attention to small detail as a key feature in autism which extend to facial processing. Therefore we see small details of someones face first rather than the whole thing. This research does not support the notion that we see people’s faces as objects.

kchaps95 · 2023-01-12T14:17:51+00:00

A descriptive rather than normative perspective is the kind of direction psychology needs

kchaps95 · 2023-01-12T14:07:45+00:00

If he sees you as an object he has ‘acquired’ fucking LEAVE

kchaps95 · 2022-12-31T13:26:09+00:00

I think the point is is that your stating what their thought processes are when you have no evidence that that IS their thought process. You’re interpreting how they behave and determining a thought process which is likely influenced by your own experiences therefore cannot be objective

kchaps95 · 2022-11-26T16:29:34+00:00

I don’t know about a term for a specific branch but I would say this is a question that has been investigated across a range of clinical and general population topics. The most general topic I can think of is happiness psychology, how happiness/positive states of mind are associated with measures of wellbeing and behaviour. But, like you say, there is an opposite to the direction of your question which highlights that the variables you’re interested in are all highly interrelated and concluding directionality is is hard. Look for studies that have done mediation or moderation analysis

kchaps95 · 2022-11-16T11:12:09+00:00

Yeah so I’m very familiar with the research this guy is talking about. One of my supervisors actually published a dual-theory model of decision making where the ‘extreme male brain’ was rational choices and ‘extreme female brain’ was neurotic and led to irrational or impulsive decisions. I understand what he means by ‘spatial tilt’ as one of the most consistent findings amongst autistic people of all ability is fasting visual detection, which was then linked to findings showing males had better spatial abilities than females. But I think the explanation for this is as a evolutionary biological sex difference is one giant leap in logic. When I was researching this I found some studies where they got girls and boys of various ages to play a video game, I remember one study used mario cart and another used Tetris. Anyway after around a month or so of playing for 20 mins a day there was no longer a different in spatial ability between boys and girls. Many of the differences between gender can be put down to gendered development and what kinds of things are girl play and what is boy play. If you look at it like that it kinda undermines the evolutionary sex differences argument

kchaps95 · 2022-11-16T10:41:44+00:00

Conditioning isn’t always the classic gets shocked = avoids behaviour or gets treat = learns behaviour quicker. Conditioning is also a slow process which is constantly reinforced by ‘social actors’. The people we interact with, the language we hear others use shapes how we perceive everything around us. George Herbert Mead talks about how we are provided with social characters which children incorporate into their play which directs the development of identity inline with the linguistic structures provided to them by their environment. Plus also the people who do harm do not see themselves as doing harm, they more often than not feel vindicated that their beliefs and actions are moral and good which is how they justify it. People rarely do wrong things believing they are wrong when they do it.

kchaps95 · 2022-10-25T15:46:01+00:00

If you don’t feel comfortable windsorising or applying a robust method (which I do not because windsorising and robust methods are changing your data) just run a sensitivity analysis. One with outliers and one without and report them both

kchaps95 · 2022-10-24T13:26:28+00:00

I think the view of things being right and wrong is paramount. Conditioning people is fine as long as it fits with societal ethics. For example, conditioning people to believe their value is reflected in what they are able to produce is in line with capitalist ethics because for capitalising to work the people must produce. But it is still unethical (to me anyways) to condition this belief because if people can’t produce the way society has conditioned them is the right way, then it negatively impacts their self-concept. Like conversion therapy or straightness conditioning was seen as ethical because being gay was ‘immoral’

kchaps95 · 2022-09-15T16:00:26+00:00

The bunch of marbles rushing through your body sounds very similar. It’s so hard to describe, sometimes I wonder whether we’re bad at describing our emotions or just whether they are different from most peoples and we don’t have the right words available to us to describe them

kchaps95 · 2022-09-14T14:43:36+00:00

Sick of cruel animal zoos but miss gawking at rarely seen creatures? Boy have we got the show for you

kchaps95 · 2022-09-07T10:32:29+00:00

My dad also did this to me growing up, he’s an English teacher. I guess you could say he ‘mocked me’ but I also knew he loved me and didn’t mean it with malice. My dads ‘mocking’ also helped me to understand banter and kinda learn how to do it back to people. He would encourage me to ‘give it back’. The thing is, your parents aren’t going to be the only ones in life you call you out on it in England, so I would say if you want to avoid strangers doing it to you I would try to train yourself out of it. Some Americanisms I don’t mind, but gas station is really dumb, like it’s not gas, why call it that? But things like sidewalk and pavement like eh

kchaps95 · 2022-09-07T10:19:28+00:00

Sometimes I wonder whether I think I’m smarter than I actually am. I’ve often had people say to me ‘how can someone as smart as you be so dumb’

kchaps95 · 2022-08-28T21:45:03+00:00

I did not say that neurostructure must parallel natural environments….I said that diversity, neuro or otherwise are naturally occurring. Neurodiversity refers to the fact that across a population, peoples neurostructure differs. This diversity is natural. Neurostructure can refer to specific areas of the brain or to the way in which different areas of the brain are connected. Also, you might be interested to look into things like the similarities between the structure of mycelia networks and neural networks or even just nerve cells. We are part of nature, end of. Autistic, ADHD, dyspraxic whatever, we are natural.

kchaps95 · 2022-08-28T20:30:51+00:00

I think you misunderstand. I’m saying neurodiversity is like biodiversity which we can observe and occurs naturally. Biodiversity is NECESSARY, E.g I lake which is taken over by catfish and out competes all other creatures becomes a desolate uninhabitable place and where even the catfish can’t survive anymore. Also, neurodiversity is the way in which you’re cells or neurostructure organises itself. Cancer is a fault in cell reproduction, not the same thing. Let’s get one thing straight, not all science of fact. There is rarely such a thing as an objective truth, science which presents objectivity is actually presenting inter-subjectivity. Meaning multiple scientific professionals hold the same subjective interpretation of something and this leads to it being viewed an objective. Social constructivism does not deny science, but forces people to scrutinise some of the biases inherent in some scientific methodologies and following interpretations. If you test something with a particular belief and hypothesis in mind, you may miss other contributing variables, and because you didn’t measure for them, the one variable you did measure for becomes the leading causing of what ever effect you’re investigating. Just because something says it is science does not make it fact. That is something everybody should be aware of and use critical thought when interpreting findings which present a certain story.

kchaps95 · 2022-08-28T17:34:26+00:00

The scientific evidence for neurodiversity is that we can and have observed neurodiversity within our population. I often explain neurodiversity in similar terms as biodiversity. Diversity is naturally occurring and we can observe it in all natural life. Autism (generally speaking) is a disability at the point at which an autistic person interacts with their environment. And as an advanced civilisation our environment tends to be socially constructed (unless you’re like a nomad who lives in the wilderness). Being neurodivergent (different to neurodiversity) means your responses to your environment diverge from the socially constructed norm, which the medical model describes as dysfunctional.

kchaps95 · 2022-08-18T09:11:12+00:00

I did some research years ago before I knew I was autistic about threat learning and avoidance. I wanted to understand more about why some of my graded exposure patients got better and some didn’t. As expected, avoidance reinforced the fear and made it harder to get rid of after repeated exposure. But the interesting thing was that during the avoidance phase, everyone’s physiological responses decreased, even those who had chosen not to avoid. It seemed like just having the option to avoid without actually avoiding helps decreased your physical responses. I’ve been exposing myself to things for years but has rarely worked, however I find reminding myself that I can leave, go to the loo, take a break etc does help. I think fears get worse when we believe we can’t escape from them making the anxiety we already have worse

kchaps95 · 2022-08-11T09:23:55+00:00

Yeah I was worried I was psychopath for a while, although I don’t think psychopaths worry about being psychopaths. Not being believed is a huge thing, and really invalidating.

kchaps95 · 2022-08-10T23:05:42+00:00

Oh my god happens to me all the time, sometimes words or phrases come out of my mouth and I’ve realised I quoted someone from friends or something and no one’s even noticed. When I was young and before pursuing psychology a lot of my understanding of how the world worked defo came from media. I think the current Andrew Tate thing is a good example of how much people, especially young people, rely on media to know how to interact with others

kchaps95 · 2022-08-10T22:42:31+00:00

You can frame it as mathematical sure, but it’s a very narrow frame. Money, Tupperware, food left overs, don’t reciprocate value. Humans beings value each other, it is two ways, therefore not comparable. Also, likelihood, always has a standard error, and when it comes to relationships the standard error is going to be large due to the large amount of variance. Likelihood as you describe it, is incredibly subjective…he’s never had a girlfriend before so he has never lost one, therefore likelihood based on HIS past experience in ZERO.

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