I am a rules based person. I needed to clarify these… some overlap with my social media rules.
Author Archives: roryreckons
A society not built for us. A world not built for us. We’re blamed for it though.
Self-determination underlies dopamine production. When we don’t have it. We need artificial production.
On the way I learn…
I need the full picture to understand the small details… I have the opposite learning cognition compared to how we are taught most of the time.
Interest is required for memory encoding – it can be positive or negative
Hyperfocus brain is not always our friend when we feed it with bad information.
‘Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage’
The danger of behaviourism and a loss of autonomy for the pattern seeking brain.
The limits of empathy – on compassion
Compassion is a logical, intuitive, or logically intuitive willingness to act with kindness toward someone else.
A brain that auto-solves
I have a black box brain a lot of the time, you throw random data in, it gives you a solution when doing something else. Passive problem solving.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names are trauma too
Social pain and physical pain aren’t that different. They hurt just as much to those who feel shame.
Possibly my most important pattern seeking moment
Thankfully my life has been excruciating. It allowed me to discover this pattern. Pain allows us to truly love.
To Parents Who Home-School their ADHD or Autistic Children, and those that cannot.
The most important thing is you love your kid and try your best – that is the best you can do.