A student that I’ve worked with was said to have Attention Deficit Disorder. When I brought him into the field, I noticed he had the ears of a scout. He was able to monitor all four directions at the same time, and notice bird calls from every direction.
So, I watched him over time. When we worked indoors, in the classroom, in the group, he was a bit unable to sit still. But when we got out in the field, he was always the first one to see the hawk, always the first one to spot the hiding instructor, always the first one to hear the bird warnings.
And I started to ask myself, “Is that a disorder, or a gift?
—Jon Young, Seeing Through Native Eyes, audio #disorder#gift
How do you handle the new #psyche#disorder of feeling compelled to #retweet your twee... X, (shh! i'm twittering a new X!) i'm proliferating something random about #Unicode ? Anyway... here it is:
I tried to quickly draw a girl with mental disorders (AI-created). The textual source of inspiration will be listed below and here is an example from there:
My tea mug when it is too hot to hold and I feel like I might drop it before I make it back...
Matt Lowry, LPP, of Child & Adolescent Psychological Evaluations, LLC, in St. Matthews, Kentucky, created diagnostic criteria for #neurotypical folks, if neurotypical folks were diagnosed with a #developmental#disorderinstead of #neurodivergent folks.
It's pretty genius, and it showcases precisely why pathologizing any #neurotype can do more harm than good by stigmatizing anything that deviates from what most people consider "normal."
Defensive driving on American highways is when you assume that everyone wizzing past you at 30 above posted is out to do you in, so you use more-than-warranted caution.
Likewise, in #IT, #DefensiveProgramming is when you assume that every piece code—functions your team wrote, libraries and frameworks that were foisted upon you, all of them—are out to get you.
And like defensive driving, defensive programming turns a freeing, joyous activity, namely programming, into a paranoid schizophrenic #disorder.
Fentanyl: More people injecting drugs worldwide, says UN (www.bbc.com)
Nearly 40 million people now suffer from drug-related disorders, says a report on the illegal trade.