Comments by "Kathy Bramley" (@kathybramley5609) on "Real Stories" channel.

  1. ☀️ Ｓｕｎｎｙ Ｄａｙｓ ☀️ Short term memory seems to be a sacrifice in a lot of gifted people especially who also fall in the neurodiversity bracket, as well as with aging and other conditions. Think mad scientist, scatty professor trope.
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  2. Stress including sensory processing stress affects cognitive processes in lots of ways we don't really recognise enough, we demean instead of recognise, problem solving adaptively. At least in a lot of rhetoric and social badinage. Brains with a lot going on in many different ways can be more susceptible but it's a human thing. We should stop building these paper pyramids based on various traits of cognition codified and simplified to the point of nonsensical lies about human (and animal) worth.
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  3. Objects also prompt thought. Think about it from a Hunter Gatherer perspective. A doorway is a change of landscape area with different rules (risks, resources, tasks associated with either/both).
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  4. If he's learning the words and their families and relationships as a kind of mathematical structure that's interesting. It might not be fully fluent in terms of nuance. But the structure of what he's doing and how, that kind of algorithm somehow encoded in his brain is really fascinating; I think it's credible though I haven't gotten to that part of the documentary yet. The universal translator. It's something I've been thinking about for a long while but especially since watching Enterprise. (The Star Trek prequel series) Language is a collective artwork, but there can be deliberate and accidental/arising/intuitive maths in art. Like Van Gogh night sky spirals, I saw some video title declaring that recently.
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  5. "Skullcrusher XMonster" Some people prefer their own company or find relationships difficult but your assertion is not true. I guess it might be based in a mixture of experience and received prejudice, historical sexual repression and various specious moralistic characterisations of purity and supremacy. For me, based in fact of knowing many intelligent people with IQs above 130 and knowing of the life story of many well recognised geniuses that comment seems unreasonably outlandish. I suspect you're pulling our leg but unlike your stance, mine is to avoid making assumptions.
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  6. What's your point MrKeys? Comment section will comment, even developing conversation is not a totally unsympathetic unheard of thing in the youtube community - it's like a combination of TV and pub. Clue is in the name.
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  7. Plus - comedian blames audience due to badly placed joke. Ha.
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  8. I'm glad people can laugh, i laugh, I make people laugh with me sometimes, i'm quite good at it sometimes, and I want to laugh. It can be very disappointing to have a joke fall flat - gosh I know that feeling. It's also painful to be poked in a raw part because you had mild but irritating difficulty processing the content and tone of something that was obviously an accusing type of joke, especially when I tried to make the best of it and make friendly reply and be playfully thoughtful about the logic to show my problem and make it okay for both of us. It was a slap in the face. I hope you can understand me. Because as you say, you care. And understanding can be a struggle.
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  9. Van Burnham - read my point, don't take him too literally: it's blatantly untrue celebrities don't matter, in fact, if you are going to be literal about it. The usual act of celebrating celebrity is the target here, and only to bring out by contrast how impressed he is the people featured or perhaps just this young man: that is, giving the usual courtesy of good faith in conversation.
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  10. Hawkline meme Though youre in a friendly position here so sorry, the scientific validity of Myers-Briggs is definitely contraversial and many would say conclusively debunked.
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  11. You can please some of the people some of the time, but if you're here to be nasty don't dress it up as telling jokes, and the reverse is also true advice: there's no need to make nasty generalisations out of some playground defensiveness. 'I know you are you said you are so what am I' Meh. I never even said you weren't funny. I just was struggling to process the accusation/joke. And that's not the same thing as not having a sense of humour. I play it to the Nth along with a sense of humour - I'd die otherwise.
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  12. Ah, you don't need to prove yourself especially as it doesn't directly relate to the problem, I would just like you to remember in future to avoid sensitive generalisation about sense of humour if someone doesn't respond the way you'd like to your joke; especially in the comment section under a video like this where intelligent, funny people with cognitive difficulties such as autism or head injury are more likely to be found.
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  13. I am glad you have a relationship with your friend, he has reason to trust your motivations and to get over things he finds difficult about meeting you, and you might know he has a sense of humour, but you might know it is difficult sometimes to follow a joke. We are strangers - the people you meet on the internet will be strangers most of the time. But you know these kinds of interactions with strangers are what can make autistic people frightened of interaction. People always respond sharply in extreme ways - even facial expressons are painful for me a lot of the time. And if I try to playfully pull apart the logic because i'm struggling to understand, people call me humourless, like i killed the world. Like i am not human. It's not fun. In fact, it really gets really upsetting after a lot of incidents.
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  14. In terms of the original comment here, I'm taking it as an expression. Hyperbole. A comment about society, either about the scientific community struggling to understand humanity and cognition being a preferable focus rather than the frivolously famous, or just angry about dumbing down our society. Neither of these are completely false or completely true, they're a bit mean spirited but shouldn't be taken too literally as personally attacking anyone, or any groups or lacks of facility. Even if he genuinely judges all celebrities as worthless human beings with criminally violent or neglectful implications of you extrapolated, that doesn't mean anyone should extrapolate or base important life and death decisions and their whole world view on one mean opinion on the internet. Eyes on the prize! Triangulating to get there.
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  15. Kojitsu - I agree, I think everyone matters. And I think it's a shame to roast/counter Nikhil as necessarily dehumanising celebrities, that's being too literal, and on the other hand it's also a shame to misunderstand the people getting upset in disagreement, a mistake to think they're saying celebrity is everything rather than just defending the right of celebrities to matter as people. But I'm not sure you're saying that either. Meanwhile i'm having a similarly pointless argument with my mum when she suggested that I remember my children were people without meaning to criticise me but offer friendly advice! I said mama we're all crazy now! I wish she'd understand the world the way I do, or make peace with the fact it's different and manage to build my confidence when she means to, or criticise or state a position more clearly for me. Being at sixes and sevens all the time is hard. I was only thinking about getting additional services involved again related to supporting my tweens with additional needs; but like her I can find them a bit scary and pointless by experience; it's a lottery. I might say 'kids are kids' to make a similar point if i wanted people to not be afraid of having a go at supporting us as friends and family. I was thinking about value-added supplement to that kind of contact. The irony is my mum has always found me more difficult than my brothers and been unsure of how to engage with my family as a whole. The whole world is mad and makes almost no sense at all with it's back-handed/two-handed elliptical good intentions. Mums are much harder to process and not take too literally and personally anyway, but trying to channel my best for Nikhil here - I think it's a non-literal kind of statement, just emphatic praise/contrast, out of feeling moved and impressed.
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  16. Jenise Spiteri sometimes there is a mental and physical cost, I don't know if he limits the amount of neurological growth and pruning, and concentration power used, that might otherwise manifest in discomfort or intermittent confusion?
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  17. Jenise Spiteri sorry for harassing this thread. It just seems like interesting speculative questions have been overwhelmed by uncalled for nastiness. x
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  18. Helena Young - enjoyed this comment! With you in spirit, and YouTube patterns if not always diurnal about it. However it's hardly the very most weird side of YouTube. There's so much darker wings than this. And my life and indeed geek life as it does often centres on conversations and questions about cognition and acceptable abilities and impairments, relativities.
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  19. Sorry, but I don't react well to stereotyping generalisations, but i supopse it may give you an excuse to feel smarmily vindicated that I'm indeed totally without humour because I took you literally - but then that would mean i hadn't taken you literally you were in fact literal the second you believed that, which is a strange head-explodingly paradoxical irony, really.
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  20. Don't worry, native speakers don't always understand me, but the ones that do praise me, it's really confusing. I have specific learning difficulties and highish IQ, not typical dyslexia but more dyspraxia or autism, with some dyscalculia. I'm good with vocabulary but not pragmatic aspects of speech and i tend to have a lot of semi-verbal thoughts at one time - my phrases can be disorientating.
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  21. Mr Pelvic interesting comment. I could imagine a celebrity in that very very odd gilded cage of celebrity, the constraints and demands of the attention, the white heat of preferential attachment where everyone wants a piece, in such a situation where someone feels under pressure having their main remaining balance and source of value narrowed down then questioned might feel like that. But there's a thousand small pleasures to have, the value of existence is different from the value to society and in-between those polar ends of scale there's a lot of circles of relationship where you and they will have value: many communities you could draw up Venn diagrams for, wherein a person has value that are nothing to do with celebrity, but such connection is also the stuff and fabric of society. Not that a celebrity would know that automatically, nor does someone with no position or confidence necessarily. They could be imagining that they have nothing to offer the world except perhaps their dreams of mastering skills and having the charm that would make them a rock star, or whatever. It was not clear to me what you meant and who you were thinking of (people often have that problem with me - pragmatic language issues, I think) - but I can definitely sympathize, whoever you were talking about being driven to suicide by such comments. But I'd like them to know that the future is wide open, and they are valuable whatever.
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  22. Christine Davis 'shut up' seems like too much: it wasn't a really personal attack.
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  23. AndNewww I'm not sure that's the point of the comment: you can't deduce that validly from wishing for the ability to learn a lot of languages, which is what I saw. You can guess, but the uncertainty doesn't justify that level of angry defensive absolute. The program makers or the guy didn't hire you as their attack dog, right?
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  24. Sorry if cross-posting has also been an issue.
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  25. Nikhil Sukumar if we want to change how preferential attachment works in favour of social benefits, protecting ourselves and planet within our communities and circles of trust without hurting others.
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  26. We're all important. Because there's things we can do that are different. Not all autistics have special talents. But it's possible that evolution has favoured ways of regeneration of injured brains towards socially useful traits in some cases, or functional in different ways but there's a range of functional outcomes (sorry for dehumanising technical terminology but seemed appropriate there). People talk about sentinels. Or they did in a lecture my husband heard once. On the other hand, all most gifted children can have problems with integration. Social value is highest within the upper middle portion of the bell curve, too much clever is taken as uncanny and threatening or defective in some studies I've read. There's also much debate on the boundary between giftedness and autism. Cognition is so fundamental that fundamental cognition difference gets in the way of relationships. But a woman who displays similar gifts is often not recognised in such a socially safe way. There's more unrecognised people out there than Temple Grandin. And her insights were directly socially useful. A picture tells a thousand words. Social networks can be visualised as networks, as a kind of mathematical structure. Numicon uses shapes to teach number. I think in filmic textures and pictures. My daughter with neonatal sepsis related brain injury has a great memory for a lot of things whilst having special needs, learning disabilities. But there's a whole lot of interesting gender, race and disablity politics and politics in general going on here that isn't being mentioned. Or sufficiently honestly explored.
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  27. Mr Pelvic How are you?
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  28. Yes but specifity matters - sometimes there's a really important reason. Black Lives Matter is a much more important statement than the above OP's. I'm not a linguist, rhetorical expert or walking rational wiki but I think that the two phrases I mention are both doing something different linguistically - for one this explicitly negates a comparator, whereas Black Lives Matter does not, that's really important for the wider politics around All Lives matter versus Black Lives Matter movements. However I'm uncertain that this is a declaration about the freedom to exist without suspicion or threat, so saying all matter is not denying a specific affirmation as against a hostile environment, but it is a bit redundant. Maybe. IMHO
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  29. Nancy Ramirez yes, it's a pain, but if we could we'd like to imagine being a human universal translator, right?
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  30. GJazzy Benez Blaming the audience always the best policy! 😐
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  31. Savant syndrome is challenging us to think in new ways about intelligence and what intelligence is, punch the air moment, following on from Daniel's comment about the line between genius and disability being somewhat thinner than we tend to realise. Whilst it is often a myth people project unhelpfully of savantism being normal in autism and brain injury ('so what's your special talent then') that can be damaging and pressurising in the same way that any so-called "positive" stereotype - the question of what lies inside our brains really, without all the constructs we have developed so for getting in the way, that's interesting! Most 'normal' intelligence concepts put people on an axis of a single figure IQ and the number of individuals on that form a bell curve possibly - and when people do well or are admired most consistently, socially, it's often people who are in the thick part of the bell, in the segment above average. The tail ends of testable IQ are where it gets interesting - and anyway IQ is not the be all and end all. But what brings the best out - if not sheer pressure, genetics, schooling as typical? We could hurt ourselves trying to find our inner savants or discarding those who don't show anything s[ecial. But equally - I saw a guy on twitter (after the initial none-too-eccentric promo shots of the new doctor were released) complaining she got to look intelligent, whereas all the other were 'r*t*rds' - I think he's missed the point and charachter of doctor who and probably many people he's met, and never been exposed to or absorbed the idea of a nutty professor, scatterbrain or otherwise genius. Before you get to rainman, there is a score eccentric genius charachters. They are popular because they are comforting to our differences, pecularities, quirks, because we know some people who embody them or are quite close to the trope ourselves, or like to imagine ourselves that way, and because there is this fascinating line - especially fascinating in a world so darn full of ableism.
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