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#Con stop yapping #tomodachi life #Diplopod Island

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

malcolmcooks

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

it’s actually wild how terrified of the general public most usamericans are. like you don’t realize it if you’re someone who mostly walks and takes transit and spends a lot of time in populous public spaces but then you talk to one of the thousands of people that seemingly never set foot in any public space besides a parking garage or a starbucks and you suddenly understand why it’s so easy for fascist rhetoric about the dangerous alien to take root. this country’s median voter pretty much never interacts with strangers who aren’t their coworkers or people they met on dating apps

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

saw a post on instagram that was literally someone citing statistics saying public transit is one of the safest travel options out there and the comments were literally just “ummmmm op this is so ableist and misogynistic of you :) don’t you know the average public transit user is a dangerous violent criminal who wants to set you on fire :)))”

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

it must be so terrifying and sad to go through life convinced if you set foot outside your car in public or interact with people outside your nuclear family you’ll instantly be raped and robbed by the Evil Poors no wonder so many of these people are reactionary tar pits

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

important points which I did not address but should be appended ☝️☝️☝️☝️

gerardwayspostcocaineweightgain

ITT:

- people giving their life story to explain why they have a special secret valid trauma reason to be a reactionary tar pit

- white true crime women assuming I don’t know what it’s like to fear rape

- fascists calling me a euroslave

- cybersmith, for some reason

plaguedocboi

It’s actually insane how pervasive this fear is and how normalized it is to be this paranoid. My mom has come across other hikers while she’s walking her dog in the woods and taken out her phone and started recording them to “give the police clues if they murder her” (as if a murderer would leave your phone behind???). My dad has repeatedly told me he is going to buy me a gun because as a Single Female Living Alone, I am going to be a victim of something. Not that I am at a statistically higher likelihood than a man to be victimized, I am going to have something bad happen to me because the world is out to get me and everyone is dangerous.

I also think it’s very important to identify the root of the issue. This fear is not new and it’s not a result of true crime or fearmongering on social media. This has always been a part of American Christian culture; women (white women especially) are delicate beautiful flowers who must be protected from the dangerous outside world by a Good Christian Patriarch, be that her husband or father. This is not subtext in conservative Christian spaces, it is very explicit. You are a lamb in a world full of wolves, and you need a shepherd to keep you safe.

And this serves one primary purpose; if women are terrified of everyone and expected to trust only in their patriarch, they are less likely to leave abusive and controlling situations. It has always been about control. It is not a coincidence that this fear is becoming more common and more intense simultaneously to the rise of a fascist regime. Subverting this fear was a massive part of feminism in the 2010s, to tell women that they do not need to be dependent on a man and can be strong and capable and take care of themselves, and it has all but evaporated in recent years. They want women willingly trapped in their homes and submissive to their husbands because they’re terrified of the world.

#DONT FALL FOR IT!!!!

estera-shirin

Amulet, Iraq, 1917 CE

The museum writes: "This Iraqi gold amulet was made for a male child named Rachamim and is dated to the 6th of January, 1917, very possibly the date of the birth. It would have been hung around the neck. The amulet is cut in the shape of a fish, which is a symbol of good luck. It is finely engraved with the features of a fish and on the back is an engraved rendition of another fish."

#TWO fish!!!!!

antiadvil

Happy migraine and headache awareness month. This may seem like a minor terminology nitpick, but it’s a serious misconception about migraine: nausea is an actual migraine symptom, not a thing that happens because of the headache. When people with migraine experience nausea during attacks, it’s not because the pain is so bad (the idea that migraine is always excruciatingly painful is also a myth), it’s because migraine causes a lot of symptoms that aren’t pain, including nausea.

This goes for other symptoms as well: although pain can definitely contribute to people’s experiences of these symptoms, fatigue and brain fog are actual migraine symptoms, not just pain symptoms.

This is also your friendly PSA that nausea is not a normal tension headache symptom, if you frequently get nauseous with your headaches, you almost certainly have migraine.

mtf-the-gathering

"gender is a social construct": fairly easy for leftists to understand

"race is a social construct": a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable

"mental illness is a social construct": this one gets you hate mail in your inbox

thebookewyrme

Gotta add previous tags on here, because this is gonna live rent free in my head from now on. The stars are real, constellations are not. Damn. Tags by @smoreofbabylon (if you don’t want me to put you on blast like this I’ll delete lol!)

galetops

it’s crazy how steaming mad your fellow homosexual will become when you tell them you don’t believe in astrology. like i thought we all agreed it’s impolite to bring up spiritual beliefs in light conversation with acquaintances and then get upset when they don’t share said beliefs

franfine1917

Trans people are a gift to the world. They show us how creative God can be, and they are the embodiment of a fundamental journey that every

charl0ttan

dog i gotta move like yesterday

titleknown

The Trump administration is cynically exploiting calls for stricter AI regulation to pass broad censorship measures at the federal level.

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

So, if you live in the US and hate censorship and AI you know what to do, contact your congresspeople and tell them do not fucking dare let this through or so help us god...

titleknown

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The bastards just worked out a deal on the package, and they're going to try and ram it through the House in the next couple of weeks.

So, if you've been waiting to call, the time is NOW. Do it ASAP, be polite, be informed, but light up those phones like a Christmas tree!

#us politics

bedupolker

RE your recent tags on not getting stung/bitten by critters; I recently saw a video of professionals removing a rattlesnake from someone’s home, and it was stuck under the sink or something so they had to grab it with their hands for a second to maneuver it around, and even though the snake was giving a warning rattle, it never tried to bite. I’ve also seen people replicate Schmidt’s insect sting scale and have to physically put the stingers into their own skin because the bug won’t sting them on its own even after getting bothered & handled & agitated. I think it’s interesting that a lot of things would rather just try and either get away or wait for a threat to pass, at least when it comes to people.

Definitely varies by species/individuals but the rattlers I've encountered in California are absurdly chill. I've seen more gopher snake bites by multitudes. I've seen them be stepped on and just shuffle away looking slightly annoyed. Once I had to relocate a huge one off a crowded beach with a snake wrangling tool, it basically felt like moving a pantyhose filled with sand, it didn't even think about striking me.

(hopefully it goes without saying, in spite of this, don't bother rattlesnakes)

^ extremely bad picture and hard to tell what's going on, but here I walked in on what I can only describe as two rattlesnakes...... spooning? No aggression/mating behavior, just fully chilling out. Social behavior's well documented in timber rattlesnakes, but these two are probably great basin rattlesnakes.

#yeah last time i was on itsukushima i fully leaned on a rock wall to rest and realized there was a mamushi #chillin on a shelf/nook right next to me like #uh. hi buddy. sorry to bother you. if you decided to strike it would be really bad for me but i guess we are chill?#did not move at all. just kind of vaguely watching tourists pass it by less than a foot away #obviously you want to always give animals space and respect. but i do think most animals are a lot less eager to fuck with us than #we are taught to believe. like it's not really one wrong move on accident and you are fucked #a lot more of the time than people act #snakes