@servelan @Adventurer @ScottSoCal @sal @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl @sentient_water I've long suspected as much. Touch sensitivity makes me hyper alert to fleas, mosquitos, rodents, and other potentially disease-carrying pests, for example. Sensitivity to sounds and motions would help with detecting predators. Sensitivity to smells could help with both disease detection/avoidance and identification of wild-growing foods. Pattern-oriented thinking could help with more general threat detection and resolution. There are a lot of potential avenues by which a shift in perception or thinking style might lend a survival benefit.
@servelan @Adventurer @ScottSoCal @sal @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl @sentient_water I accidentally listed rodents as a touch sensitivity thing at first. Yikes! lol
@hosford42 @servelan @Adventurer @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl @sentient_water I can’t have feet touch me… baby feet are ok but once they old enough to know I don’t like it is almost painful. No logic to it. I think something traumatic as a child when my little sister put her feet on me… must have smacked her and my mom did something to me.
@sentient_water @littlescraps @servelan @Adventurer @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl lol Why do we have any remote urge to chew on babies? It's weird AF.
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Don't know why but boffins have a term for it.
"This behaviour occurs more commonly in individuals who experience dimorphous emotions across a range of situations, and may help to regulate emotions by balancing an overwhelmingly positive emotion with a negative response."
TL:DR - Humans are weird.
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The article gives some examples, it's mostly overwhelming emotion. Happy tears, terrified laughter, that kind of thing.
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@ScottSoCal @hosford42 @littlescraps @servelan @Adventurer @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl Oh yeah I have them. I'm more likely to cry at a happy film etc.
@sentient_water @ScottSoCal @littlescraps @servelan @Adventurer @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl I got in trouble so much as a kid because when I am scared (often because an adult was yelling at me) I tend to grin.
My parents were not nice people, and I did the same thing. It practically guaranteed I got worse than my siblings got.
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I only recently came to understand that my polymorphous emotions were not necessarily the “norm”. I guess I thought others were better at hiding all but a narrow, singular expression of emotion.
I wrote about this: https://medium.com/@glennmitchell_97461/the-day-we-laughed-at-colins-funeral-17263848773b
You're not alone. I laughed at Mark's funeral, with the rest of our friends. We'd secretly dated though high school, and stayed friends for years after.
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@ScottSoCal @sentient_water @littlescraps @servelan @Adventurer @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl Dimorphous emotions... like feeling different/conflicting things at the same time? I guess I have that. But wanting to chew on babies doesn't feel like that. It just feels like extreme affection.
@hosford42 @ScottSoCal @littlescraps @servelan @Adventurer @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl Yeah sometimes I see cuteness & feel like my head's gonna explode. In the best way imaginable.
@ScottSoCal @hosford42 @littlescraps @servelan @Adventurer @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl What the flump is a diamorphous emotion? I didn't read the entry just known about it for years.