Several disease conditions including fatal low blood sugar levels mimic being “fucked up” and you can’t know with out at least asking.

Even golfers (male) look older than they should to me.

https://youtu.be/BirJMnMcfBs?is=01s0JMZ-r9OqOgRM

A few years ago my nephew wanted the whole family to dress up as the Mickey Mouse club house group and he assigned me to be Minnie Mouse. I built a costume from off the shelf clothing (and a set of ears). I’m going to wear it until he’s in high school at least.

Or when my cat gives me headbutts.

I once had a professor go on a whole tangent about noodles and was like “yeah if you ever want to send me noods”. The whole class got a case of the giggles and he was just “yeah I did not think that through.”

I did let a place I go semi regularly know that I choose not to eat dessert recently because their dessert menu had all AI images. The next time I was there the specials were just text (like their standard menu)

As a physical therapist, one thing that bugs me (and I know it’s not a software limitation but spending choices) is having to wedge my notes into a format designed for a physician or something else.

Sounds reasonable to me. I’m currently in a language class and the teacher for part two (of three beginner levels) is much more structure and willing to let us sit with “hard” or uncomfortable questions and I’ve picked up way more than the teacher I had for part one. But I’ve found it true for math and biology and yes music (voice).

I was just in Seoul and got around everywhere I wanted to go with public transit. Several times comparing public transit and taxis the transit was faster.

I used to get therapy from a place walking distance from a cat cafe. It was perhaps the best combination.

I run with the “formerly gifted child” crowd. There’s a few things that I think can come from the pressures of being seen as a “fast learner”. The main is that the first part of learning is often the easiest and the place where most progress is seen. However if you want to truly master a topic the rate slows way way down. Former gifted children often have an internalized pressure that everything should proceed at the same speed forever. It’s neither possible or sustainable and mostly leads to burn out.

Additionally there is a tendency of people to stick with the stuff that seems easier or comes more naturally. You see this a lot with academically talented kids dropping out of sports or music quickly because it’s hard for them. This builds an avoidance of persevering through difficult work. Again to master a given topic, even if it’s in their typical skill set they are going to have to slog through parts that are hard and uncomfortable.

I personally seek out teachers or tutors who struggle for B level grades because they’ve had to put work into understanding material rather than just being like of course this thing works this way.

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