movies where someone hears an important message only once and retains all the details….
girl if that were me, we’d be fucked. I have to reread emails like 4 times.
if it were me having to repeat my dead father’s instructions on destroying the death star:
I was in a college psych class, and the teacher was doing some kind of exercise about memory, patterns, and retention. He began with, “for instance, if I asked you what number the first letter of your name is in the alphabet, you wouldn’t be able to tell me right aw–”
“Ten,” I said.
“What?”
“J. J is ten,” I said again.
He stared at me.
“I happened to learn it while looking at the alphabet when I was five or six, and it just stayed in my brain,” I told him.
Then we did an exercise on retention. “I’m going to tell you a story,” he said, “and then I’m going to send you out of the room for five minutes, and when you come back, you have to repeat as much of the story back to me as possible.”
He told me a long and meandering story with no plot or structure, just a random series of events, place names, actions, etc. Then he sent me out of the room.
I looked at the wall for a while.
He called me back in five minutes later, stood me up in front of the class, and asked me to repeat “just as much of the story as you remember.” Apparently while I’d been gone he’d been telling the class about how eyewitness accounts aren’t reliable because people don’t remember things well after a certain period of time.
So I told his story back to him– not verbatim, but certain phrases were exact– and watched the consternation in his face as I accidentally blew up his (valid! and extensively studied!) lesson about how bad people’s retention is.
“It’s like a song,” I tried to explain to him, and the class. “Or a poem. Every part of the story has a little tag to remember it. I looked at the chalkboard while you were saying this part. My leg itched while you were saying that part. A chair squeaked during the next part. Then I just have to come back and go over all the sensations that I had while you were”
“Sit down,” he said.
I sat.
Turns out I’m Autisms Georg adn should not have been counted
ADHD version: A friend asked, on a field trip, why I knew the scientific name for Caltha palustris, “Well, we did that [one week long] field ID course [three years previously] and we saw it in one of the bogs”.
This, I was informed, is very much not a normal reason to remember the scientific name of a plant for the rest of your life.
It took me five whole years to learn when my partner’s birthday is.
I can remember specific details about games I played over two decades ago that I have not played since.
I once forgot it was my birthday. On my birthday. And when my sister (Who lived several hours away) jumped out of hiding and yelled happy birthday, I looked around to see who she was talking to.
I confused many many doctors when my mother had her traumatic brain injury and I kept explaining to my family how brain injuries work and why the neurosurgeons were doing specific things and the doctors were like are you a med student and I’m like no I write fanfic
They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it’s genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.
Kermit the Frog can never get canceled because Kermit the Frog has no agency or personhood beyond what he is imbued with by the collective labor of puppeteers, voice actors, singers, and writers. He is, along with these other examples, effectively a celebrity by gestalt. He has transcended the inherit instability of the celebrity class through diffusion of responsibility for his personhood. He is a god.
Is it just me or does anyone else hate “Everyone should care about disability because disability is the only oppressed group anyone can join at any time?”
People shouldn’t reconsider being prejudiced against me because becoming like me is terrifying. People should reconsider being prejudiced against me because I am already a person.
you: So, I was wanting to start working at your firm because I’m considering accounting as a career.
the man you agreed to interview with in this cafe: I see. I have to say, it’s a welcome change to have someone your age looking for a career instead of something to support their….I dont know, rock band, haha!
you: Haha, yes, well, I try to stay focused. [you take a drink from your coffee]
the man: While we’ve hired people with little to no experience, I have to ask– would you happen to have any previous experience in this field?
you: Oh! I understand completely. The past three years I’ve actually interned a-
“nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them” Assata Shakur
FREE PALESTINE.
I’ve been kinda quiet about the recent happenings and honestly I’ve always been a bit scared/hesitant of saying I’m palestinian online bc of losing opportunities, getting doxed or getting trolls but I realize now I should be stronger than that, zionists have never been welcome near me or to my art !
Under communism the wait staff will not ask if Pepsi is okay. You will not even find out that’s its Pepsi instead of coke until you take your first sip. Unless you train like me, to know the difference from the sound of the Fizz alone, that is the only way we can beat communism and I can teach you. Take my hand. Not like that you grabbed it gay. Stop. Giggles. I SAID STOP
doctor voice hello yes im here returning your call about scheduling! ^_^ so the next appointment we have is tomorrow at 4am. after that the earliest we can get you in is december 2025… either of those sound good to you?
