#diana kwon

[thenib]

A new strain of COVID might be coming to a town near you. Why is that?

[eternal-pseud]

Research with identical and nonidentical twins suggests that narcissism may be at least partially genetically hereditable, but other studies indicate that dysfunctional parenting might also play a significant role. Grandiosity may derive from caregivers holding inflated views about their child's superiority, whereas vulnerability may originate in having a caregiver who was cold, neglectful, abusive or invalidating. Complicating matters, some studies find overevaluation also plays a role in vulnerable narcissism, whereas others fail to find a link between parenting and grandiosity. "Children who develop NPD may have felt seen and appreciated when they achieved or behaved in a certain way that satisfied a caregiver's expectations but ignored, dismissed or scolded when they failed to do so," [Elsa] Ronningstam [a clinical psychologist at McClean Hospital in Massachusetts] summarizes in her guide to the disorder.

[Jacob] Skidmore [who runs a blog about narcissism] attributes his own NPD to both genes and painful childhood experiences. "I've never met a narcissist who has not had trauma," he says. "People just use love as this carrot on a stick [that] they hang above your head, and they tell you to behave or they'll take it away. And so I have this mindset of, 'Well then, screw it! I don't need love. I can take admiration, achievements, my intelligence - you can't take those things away from me.'"

- Diana Kwon, What Is Narcissism? Science Confronts a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon

Kwon, Diana. "What Is Narcissism? Science Confronts a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon." Scientific American, September 1, 2023. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-narcissism-science-confronts-a-widely-misunderstood-phenomenon/.

[mustasheo]

In the early 2000s, Julie Castronovo, along with a group of psychologists at the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, conducted some of the first investigations to test the basic numerical abilities of the blind. To their surprise, they found that not only were these individuals unimpaired, the average blind subject possessed even sharper skills than the average test subject who could see. “People who have lost vision from a very early age have developed some compensatory mechanism,” says Castronovo, who is now studying mathematical cognition at the University of Hull, in England. That compensatory mechanism seems to do a better job at aiding them in certain kinds of math than vision does—an astonishing finding, she says.

I mean... I’m really interested in the neuroscience of how different people do different things, but this article (and these researchers) are framing this particular instance in a really ableist way

able-bodied people aren’t THE BEST, what a horrific shock, what can it mean and how do we fix it??

[carolinemillerbooks]

New Post has been published on http://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/our-minds-our-bodies/schizophrenia-and-life-in-the-cities/

Schizophrenia And Life In The Cities

I’m certain I’ve recorded this story in an earlier blog, but it bears repeating.  Several years ago, two of my neighbor suffered from schizophrenia. They were bright and highly educated women.  One was a poet and the other an oil painter.  Though extraordinarily talented, both were  unpre...

[dianakwon-blog]

on my way out to ikea and this is my outfit of the day.  just a pair of dark blue jeans and white 3/4 sleeve shirt from zara.