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rickybabyboy

does ricky have a favorite toy?

its either my fishing rod or my yarn ball or dart toy. i like to smacking

loveridden1999

i have that dog in me. you know. the losing one

stealingpotatoes

there is not a single task on earth that's more important than cat cuddles (source: my cat told me)

membraneshock

rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3

fuckyeahcoelacanths

effemimaniac

we are in the midst of a true Real One

elbiotipo

fgrobichiko

Dude the fact a COELACANTH blog is the one that survived when the rest died off……..

escuerzoresucitado

dragon-in-a-fez

it's cool that more and more people are becoming aware of one major fallacy in the "brains finish developing at 25" myth - the fact that the study that started the myth stopped measuring at 25 - but there are more reasons not to believe in the idea of children's brains as structurally deficient!

my personal favourite is the fact that we actually know children and adults use different regions of their brains to accomplish the same tasks:

source: https://source.washu.edu/2005/05/adult-and-child-brains-perform-tasks-differently/

turns out having less growth in your frontal lobe doesn't matter because you can just. do that shit somewhere else.

the human brain is a marvel we are nowhere close to unravelling. the little we do know does not in any way support the idea that there is such a thing as a "fully developed" brain.

cynical-mysanthrope

Interesting, (i assume) we can all agree that children's brains develop over time, we can observe it in their changing personality and growing intelligence. And we can all agree that adult brains don't do this as much, people change over long periods of time, they learn new things and forget old ones. But my point is: an adult's brain and a child's brain can be considered as two separate states. So then, when does that transition occur, and how quickly? Is it consistent across individuals? Or different for each of us?

dragon-in-a-fez

I can't seem to find it at the moment, but there's a chart I put together years ago for one of my classes (I teach undergraduate childhood studies) showing a bunch of different domains of cognitive skills and their average peaks across the lifespan. language learning tends to peak very early, age 2 or so. sensory processing, especially of visual input, is generally at its best in the tween years. young adults tend to be best at making choices in the face of unpredictable outcomes. pure processing speed in things like mental math is already declining in the early 20s before metacognition hits its peak around 30. the pace of change slows down as people get older but it never stops. and there are things like the recall of details in long-term memory that don't hit their peak until after middle age.

the key thing I wanted my students to recognise from all this data is that brains don't exist in a binary or even a spectrum from child to adult. it's much, much more gloriously complicated than that. once you start seeing it that way, a whole new world opens up and you start questioning how society decided to take one slice of this massive, messy diversity and call it "fully developed".

sherwind

they're silencing my bug

naamahdarling

OMG.

THE RAREST BISCUITS HAVE BEEN BAKED!!!

Fancy biscuits!!!!

ID: A small gray cat is in a small gray basket, making biscuits on a folded gray blanket. She is purring loudly.

A human speaks off to one side at a distance. "...She's trilling and chirping."

The human filming leans in close to the kitty. "Does that make you happy? Fancy? Is that good?" They pet the cat on the head and after a moment the cat smiles up at them, radiating sleepy approval. "Its good!"