CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@alex I just remembered this for the first time in a long time:

I was a kid and answered the doorbell. It was a door-to-door evangelist. My family was church-going, but in a kind of melIow way, and I had no concept of proselytizing.

He asked if I wanted to live forever.

I gave due consideration to the physical and mental concerns that might go with such a thing and said "no."

I don't remember exactly what happened next, but he didn't stay at our doorstep much longer.

@alex I don't recall if you've mentioned being autistic, but either way, this is the world for us!

(And yes, terrible design no matter who takes it)

@britt Did you happen to see my post on family re resilience, um, 5ish hours ago?

Different reasoning, though also holds from disability: Fuck resilience. How do people get resilient? Trauma. If they're the lucky ones.

@britt Love this!

@elsemusic Quite helpful. Especially thinking how (at least with front-ends I use) links to YouTube don't preview in any way what video is at the other end.

With the result that I never follow them unless the poster has described sufficiently what is there for me opt in to seeing it..

@h3mmy Beautiful!

@gannet @woozle Oops, saw who it was. Nevermind.

@gannet @woozle If that was me, it's not so much that I can't, as can't be bothered to work at it.

There's usually too much detail for it to be a more than trivial effort.

@gannet A grad school friend had aphantasia, though neither he nor any of the rest of us knew the term at the time.

Since we were psychologists, we were especially fascinated about what that did and did allow him.

In his case, he thought it likely that it was associated with a head injury as a kid (car accident), as he thought he might remember having had mental imagery before that..

All that said, I mostly bleep over detailed fight scenes in books, but I think it's more that I don't care to be bothered than that I can't visualize them....