01-21-2013, 02:17 PM
Well, one question springing to mind is "What is it you 'have'?" Like, who exactly are "they" and where are you staying?
If you don't feel like answering, that's okay. I know (am related to) some people who wouldn't say they had anything, even under perfect anonymity.
I'm not really like that, though. I'm alright with telling people I have ADD, basically no social awareness, and (apparently, in my friends' eyes) a mild case of "yellow fever." Even in real life.
'Course, I'm also a bit of an idiot. So maybe you shouldn't follow my example.
Oh, posts. Yay. I'll jump on the bandwagon and include a bit about me!
Apart from not respecting Freud, I don't really have anything against doctors. What riles me is disrespect. Towards me, towards my fellow man, towards beliefs and ideals. Now, I can take a joke: self-deprecating humor is all I really have. But genuine disrespect does. Patronizing is one of the biggest. So is taking advantage of others, or striking at them physically or verbally.
But I don't really see conspiracies anywhere. I can see where the system is biased, because it is, but none of that is really hidden. It just isn't changed, and to be honest, it probably won't ever change. But that's life. I'm a Christian, so I'm really glad this isn't all there is.
Right, so I don't have much that's "wrong" about me. The only physical thing is ADD, and my jaw, I guess. Does ugliness count as a condition? I guess it might. Those things, and my being white, led me to be an isolated kid in grade-school. It also brought English to my attention. People (in books, at least) talk about how their only friends were books, and they read because they wanted to belong.
That wasn't me. I read because English made sense. It had rules, it had emotion. But most of all, it occupied my mind. It was my ADD medication for twelve years. It did more than made sense, it was sense. Right up until I discovered people. Now I look at social relationships, and while I still can't seem to understand people and their relationships, I can see them function. Makes history and governments seem logical to me.
See, I can do things if I look at them relationally. As ratios, as patterns, and such. I do my best work in mathematics without a calculator. Luckily, everything natural to Earth can be viewed as a system. Economics, science, even most human emotion is rather formulaic. Except... there is chaos. Deviations from logic. Ghosts in the machine. Perception is one of these. It's also much wider ranging than most people think. It's more than just senses, it's feeling.
But it's odd to see people talk about thinking out of the box. Here's a bit of a tip: you can't get in, you can't get out. We think different, but there's nothing wrong in doing so. I can't think very creatively, but that's alright. I do systems, that's who I am. I'll never be a great painter, but that's alright.
It's one of those things that I get upset about, when someone tries to change their way of thinking. We have our grooves. Don't try to hide it. That is the way we are all unique: in that we have perspectives of thought. Humans are deviation, and that deviation is thought.
And that deviation is what we cannot replicate in robotics. That's one reason why we can't actually have a true artificial intelligence.
Anyways, that was a mouthful. Sorry 'bout that, if it's too long. But that's what happens when I begin to speak. My mom didn't raise herself any doormats, that's for damn sure.
If you don't feel like answering, that's okay. I know (am related to) some people who wouldn't say they had anything, even under perfect anonymity.
I'm not really like that, though. I'm alright with telling people I have ADD, basically no social awareness, and (apparently, in my friends' eyes) a mild case of "yellow fever." Even in real life.
'Course, I'm also a bit of an idiot. So maybe you shouldn't follow my example.
Oh, posts. Yay. I'll jump on the bandwagon and include a bit about me!
Apart from not respecting Freud, I don't really have anything against doctors. What riles me is disrespect. Towards me, towards my fellow man, towards beliefs and ideals. Now, I can take a joke: self-deprecating humor is all I really have. But genuine disrespect does. Patronizing is one of the biggest. So is taking advantage of others, or striking at them physically or verbally.
But I don't really see conspiracies anywhere. I can see where the system is biased, because it is, but none of that is really hidden. It just isn't changed, and to be honest, it probably won't ever change. But that's life. I'm a Christian, so I'm really glad this isn't all there is.
Right, so I don't have much that's "wrong" about me. The only physical thing is ADD, and my jaw, I guess. Does ugliness count as a condition? I guess it might. Those things, and my being white, led me to be an isolated kid in grade-school. It also brought English to my attention. People (in books, at least) talk about how their only friends were books, and they read because they wanted to belong.
That wasn't me. I read because English made sense. It had rules, it had emotion. But most of all, it occupied my mind. It was my ADD medication for twelve years. It did more than made sense, it was sense. Right up until I discovered people. Now I look at social relationships, and while I still can't seem to understand people and their relationships, I can see them function. Makes history and governments seem logical to me.
See, I can do things if I look at them relationally. As ratios, as patterns, and such. I do my best work in mathematics without a calculator. Luckily, everything natural to Earth can be viewed as a system. Economics, science, even most human emotion is rather formulaic. Except... there is chaos. Deviations from logic. Ghosts in the machine. Perception is one of these. It's also much wider ranging than most people think. It's more than just senses, it's feeling.
But it's odd to see people talk about thinking out of the box. Here's a bit of a tip: you can't get in, you can't get out. We think different, but there's nothing wrong in doing so. I can't think very creatively, but that's alright. I do systems, that's who I am. I'll never be a great painter, but that's alright.
It's one of those things that I get upset about, when someone tries to change their way of thinking. We have our grooves. Don't try to hide it. That is the way we are all unique: in that we have perspectives of thought. Humans are deviation, and that deviation is thought.
And that deviation is what we cannot replicate in robotics. That's one reason why we can't actually have a true artificial intelligence.
Anyways, that was a mouthful. Sorry 'bout that, if it's too long. But that's what happens when I begin to speak. My mom didn't raise herself any doormats, that's for damn sure.
Won't be seeing you through the field of tears I left behind