It's just an organ. How do you speak about your heart, or your stomach, especially when they make you suffer ?
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I trust my brain for about 15 seconds when I wake up, before reality kicks back in.
Your brain is technically piloting a golem of flesh/bone that feeds it.
Except that you are the pilot.
We think of ourselves as our skin instead of the flying spaghetti monster that we are. Spindles of nerves and veins weird bulbous organs stuffed up in our meat jacket.
More like software running on a meaty hardware.
I am my brain, at least the forebrain. My issue is some of the other parts are trying their best, but they weren't given all the tools they need for the environment I'm in.
Not sure if I'm maladapted or if my environment is just poor tho.
Your conscious brain is like 10% of your brain. The other 90% doesn't follow instructions and needs to be carefully trained and complained about
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Psyche and Soma. Separate entities that work hand in hand but sometimes keep secrets from each other.
Sometimes my brain doesn't take care of its flesh vehicle for a while; typical situation is I don't get a shower or shave for a little too long. And then my brain becomes convinced that it doesn't like itself very much. Then another part of my brain realizes what's going on, but has learned that my brain isn't very reliable, and is also fairly open to suggestion. So my brain takes a shower and shaves and puts on clean clothes, and then my brain is tricked into liking itself again.
It's literally like playing peekaboo with your own self-esteem in the mirror.
I give my insides pep talks. It's soothing and makes me think of the ways all of me is contributing to my lived experience. I'll rub the back of my neck and thank my brain for remembering that tiny, essential detail when it normally feels like a seive. I'll rub my tummy when it feels anxious and is sending anxiety through my body, and let it know I'm thankful for it but also can it please understand we're not in danger. Totally. Normal. Things. Lmfao
Autistic experience is talking about your entire body this way. "The body is irritated" or "the body is overwhelmed".
Especially when shutting down, thinking like that helps cope with the feeling of being "helplessly trapped".
The meat demands nap time but the soul craves 16 hours of Rimworld.
Eh, wat. Is there any sane person who after a day of, say, real hard studying, cannot distinguish that "my brain and mind are tired from all the load they've pulled, but I am actually relieved it is finally over"?
On today's episode of "Neurodivergent people claiming normal human behaviour as neurodivergent":
Except, every time I talk about my brain as if it was a separate entity to other people they get annoyed at the implication that my actions aren't simply my pure and magical free will.
I'm only autistic though not ADHD. At least as far as I know. And this tends comes from any person (though typically allistic in particular), not just neurotypical people.
Volition and intent tends to line up with action in those that are neurotypical. A good example is the broken speech ordering disorder some people have either congenitally or due to trauma. They try and speak regularly, but the autonomic part of the brain responsible for converting that signal into verbal communication is borked.
Interestingly enough, even if it is working properly, you can still trip it up which is why we have tongue twisters and spoonerisms.
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I think I realised this the first time I heard someone talk about ego death or derealization as a result of a drug trip and I was like oh so like that feeling in between two rooms when you die and everything stops just before the new room's program loads another you up?
You would be surprised how much of normal as "sane" is not normal as "the way most people are"
Yeah even anecdotally everyone I've ever got to know really well turned out to be just as fucked up as everyone else. But like some people do this kind of chemistry with their fucked-upedness where they hijack it to the benefit of themselves or others.
Pardon my subjectiveposting
It takes skill and a certain level of being humble. Yeah, I like such people too
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Most people would probably just throw a blanket statement like "I'm exhausted" and call it a day.
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Untrustworthy little bastard 🧠
It really is. Haven't you ever been trying to remember something, actively racking your brain to remember it, but it is completely lost. So you give up. You move on. Hours later, you're talking to someone about dinner plans, driving in rush hour traffic, weighing the merits of Chinese vs Mexican, every part of your conscious mind handling the moment. And then suddenly your mind goes "DUSTIN HOFFMAN PLAYED CAPTAIN HOOK!"
That wasn't "you", the person, the conscious mind. That was a you that works backstage. They had to go down into the sub-basement to the deep stores, dig through a warehouse full of useless knowledge for the right factoid.
I call mine Derek. Derek just ran back up the stairs kicked in the door and delivered the query results after being dispatched hours ago. That wasn't me that remembered that info. Derek did.
I've been calling mine Elmo for a couple decades. Because it's little and annoying. Then that muskrat turd started getting called Elmo (I assume for the same reasons). I want my nickname for my subconscious back dammit
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My brain is often an asshole and we argue every day.
wait till they find out about the belly brain, and how microbiota affects mood
2 billion bacteria can't be wrong when they say cheese is a perfectly valid snack. Or meal.
The more cheeses, the more valid
I need to go get me some thrice-valid pizza
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My microbiota are cranky little bitches when I haven’t eaten in a while lol
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Uh oh, my chronically low dopamine wants a word with you
(But you are also right)
Maybe you would have more dopamine if your gut microflora say you could have more dopamine!
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Yeah, there’s me, and then there’s the One Who Knows Things. He’s not always helpful.
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It's the "self" part that's the illusion there. There's just consciousness and its content. There's no "you" in there that's somehow separate from the process in your brain causing it to feel like something to be.
Yep, this is why it's possible to "reason" ourselves into any position over time, we just have to feel a certain way for long enough for rational justifications to seem plausible.
(Makes it damn hard to derive meaning from anything after a while)
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I hate my brain, it betrays me on a daily basis. If it was normal, my life would be so much better. So yes, yes, it is a separate entity from my essence! 🤣🤣
I am my own person, and my brain is just a passenger.
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