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I trust my brain for about 15 seconds when I wake up, before reality kicks back in.
Untrustworthy little bastard 🧠
Your conscious brain is like 10% of your brain. The other 90% doesn’t follow instructions and needs to be carefully trained and complained about
Only people with ADHD have a cerebellum. For everyone else, it’s 100% prefrontal cortex. Crazy we even call it prefrontal, given that it’s how the entire brain functions, no exceptions.
Anyone else get tired of telling their heart to beat, diaphragm to move, and eyes to moisturize? Its God damn exhausting is what it is
you are now telling your eyes to moisturize (blink)
Mmm that was a good one. I think I’ll do it again. Mmm, blinking
The cerebellum sounds like a co-processor, like how old computers had math co-processors.
Still, everyone has one, it isn’t limited to ADHD.
This is looking like an interesting read: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10321758/#T1
I typically use the word accelerator. You can do things manually, but your brain has a bunch of autonomic accelerators for things like speech synthesis, hearing, vision, entity detection, social bonding modes, etc. Deviation in those are what causes neurodivergence. Deviations in affinities and identity are what causes the queer and aspec spectrums.
wait till they find out about the belly brain, and how microbiota affects mood
2 billion bacteria can’t be wrong when they say cheese is a perfectly valid snack. Or meal.
The more cheeses, the more valid
I need to go get me some thrice-valid pizza
We’re all just a cluster of cells. Majority vote…
My microbiota are cranky little removedes when I haven’t eaten in a while lol
Or just because
Uh oh, my chronically low dopamine wants a word with you
(But you are also right)
Maybe you would have more dopamine if your gut microflora say you could have more dopamine!
You really got me going there for a few seconds, kudos (still waking up), but I don’t think that’s how the dopamine deficiency functions 🤣
Adhd’ers have less ability to create (or retain), dopamine. It’s due to having less dopamine receptors, and they don’t have the same level of efficiency to store it either, based off of some research that I did on the subject.
Edit: having said this, what we eat does totally play a part in helping our brain to produce the most “ingredients” for our brain to create it.
Hey I’ve been dopamine and serotonin deficient my whole life, so I get it. But I do find that kombucha helps improve my mood. Same with yogurt and raw honey. And miso 🤤
It’s just an organ. How do you speak about your heart, or your stomach, especially when they make you suffer ?
Your brain is technically piloting a golem of flesh/bone that feeds it.
Except that you are the pilot.
We think of ourselves as our skin instead of the flying spaghetti monster that we are. Spindles of nerves and veins weird bulbous organs stuffed up in our meat jacket.
More like software running on a meaty hardware.
Yeah, there’s me, and then there’s the One Who Knows Things. He’s not always helpful.
Encyclopedia: “Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike.”
I JUST WOKE UP! WHY WOULD I NEED THAT?! WHAT POSSIBLE STIMULUS COULD HAVE SUMMONED THAT?!
Brain: “you be seven missed text massages from Contact Mike”
Brain: “I said what I said”
And not always wise. Yet we seem to take its opinions at face value, and forget the true mind lingering behind, but always present
My brain is often an asshole and we argue every day.
It really is. Haven’t you ever been trying to remember something, actively racking your brain to remember it, but it is completely lost. So you give up. You move on. Hours later, you’re talking to someone about dinner plans, driving in rush hour traffic, weighing the merits of Chinese vs Mexican, every part of your conscious mind handling the moment. And then suddenly your mind goes “DUSTIN HOFFMAN PLAYED CAPTAIN HOOK!”
That wasn’t “you”, the person, the conscious mind. That was a you that works backstage. They had to go down into the sub-basement to the deep stores, dig through a warehouse full of useless knowledge for the right factoid.
I call mine Derek. Derek just ran back up the stairs kicked in the door and delivered the query results after being dispatched hours ago. That wasn’t me that remembered that info. Derek did.
I’ve been calling mine Elmo for a couple decades. Because it’s little and annoying. Then that muskrat turd started getting called Elmo (I assume for the same reasons). I want my nickname for my subconscious back dammit
Courtesy of COVID I feel like a frustrated spectator dealing with poorer memory, and brain fog when I reach the limits of a much reduced intellectual stamina.
That shit byte me in many exams, it made me hate preparing for exams because I didn’t know if the effort was going to be worth it.
Psyche and Soma. Separate entities that work hand in hand but sometimes keep secrets from each other.
Autistic experience is talking about your entire body this way. “The body is irritated” or “the body is overwhelmed”.
Especially when shutting down, thinking like that helps cope with the feeling of being “helplessly trapped”.
The meat demands nap time but the soul craves 16 hours of Rimworld.
“the body needs a sacrifice” - eats fried chicken
I am my brain, at least the forebrain. My issue is some of the other parts are trying their best, but they weren’t given all the tools they need for the environment I’m in.
Not sure if I’m maladapted or if my environment is just poor tho.
It’s the “self” part that’s the illusion there. There’s just consciousness and its content. There’s no “you” in there that’s somehow separate from the process in your brain causing it to feel like something to be.
Yep, this is why it’s possible to “reason” ourselves into any position over time, we just have to feel a certain way for long enough for rational justifications to seem plausible.
(Makes it damn hard to derive meaning from anything after a while)
And feelings/emotions are just mental shortcuts or high speed memory caches like in a cpu. They can be changed as well. Read “how emotions are made” by Lisa Barrett Feldman if you want to know more.
Meaning sure, but enjoyment is still right there. Maybe a little absurdity too, for a taste of the numinous.
I wish I were someone who could derive enjoyment from meaningless things, but am not wired that way. Sounds like it’d be a blast.
What’s your poison?
Sometimes my brain doesn’t take care of its flesh vehicle for a while; typical situation is I don’t get a shower or shave for a little too long. And then my brain becomes convinced that it doesn’t like itself very much. Then another part of my brain realizes what’s going on, but has learned that my brain isn’t very reliable, and is also fairly open to suggestion. So my brain takes a shower and shaves and puts on clean clothes, and then my brain is tricked into liking itself again.
It’s literally like playing peekaboo with your own self-esteem in the mirror.
I give my insides pep talks. It’s soothing and makes me think of the ways all of me is contributing to my lived experience. I’ll rub the back of my neck and thank my brain for remembering that tiny, essential detail when it normally feels like a seive. I’ll rub my tummy when it feels anxious and is sending anxiety through my body, and let it know I’m thankful for it but also can it please understand we’re not in danger. Totally. Normal. Things. Lmfao
Had a parent (in full denial about a possible ADHD adjacent diagnosis) excuse their child’s actions (defiantly running away from their carer and across a road) as “their brain must have been tired”.
FFS you are your brain*, the rest is just transport.
* I argue that your brain is just the substrate you run on and there can be several of you running there.
These ones are living the plural dream!
It’s crowded in here, can someone open a window?
Well, the eyes are the windows to the soul and they can be opened!
With a grapefruit spoon?
A grapefruit spoon and a lot of enthusiasm!
