Picture or Video of the day.

[Skippi]

Fact or fake?

Looks to be real - https://www.guinnessworldrecords.co...d-records-with-incredibly-speedy-mental-maths

If the above is to be believed the kid broke 6 maths world records.

 

[Twostage]

What number do you use to count your checks?

3 obviously, is there another ?

 

[Twostage]

Are we not all neurodivergent¿
I discovered only a few weeks ago that not everyone (only 40%)can visualise stuff.

I can but I didn't consider it a gift.

I thought aphantasia was rarer than that. My dad couldn't visualise and my wife works with a girl who's the same.

For certain things I'm at the opposite end, when I was doing a lot of programming I could debug my code in my head by seeing it in my minds eye. Scarily when I think back now I used to do it whilst driving to and from work.

Years ago I had an episode of scintillating scotoma (where you see shimmering lights) which briefly interrupted my memory - I had no idea what a magpie was or who my mate was who was with me (had to look up his name on my mobile before I told him that my memory had disappeared) scarey. Anyway, it took away my ability to visualise for about a fortnight. It then bounced back better than before, I was able to 'see' a telephone number from a letter I'd read a few days ago. I thought I was about start a new career as a memory man but the next day I couldn't remember the suit and number of 4 playing cards I'd just seen ).

 

[Chippy_Tea]

3 obviously, is there another ?

Yes 4

 

[MashBag]

I thought aphantasia was rarer than that. My dad couldn't visualise and my wife works with a girl who's the same.

I didn't know it had a name cheers

 

[Clint]

Ah,get it now...I visualise anything and everything. If I'm going to do a DIY project it's all ripped down and rebuilt in my head before I start. I "rehearse" loads of things mentally...I just thought I over thought stuff.
What about dreams....mine are technicoloured and complicated. I also change the course of my dream as they're happening as ...weirdly I know it's a dream!

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Are we not all neurodivergent¿
I discovered only a few weeks ago that not everyone (only 40%)can visualise stuff.

I can but I didn't consider it a gift.

This has sent me down a wiki rabbit hole, I had no idea this was a thing, amazing.

 

[UKSkydiver]

What number do you use to count your checks?

I dont get it - sorry.

 

[UKSkydiver]

Are we not all neurodivergent¿
I discovered only a few weeks ago that not everyone (only 40%)can visualise stuff.

I can but I didn't consider it a gift.

I have to visualise stuff..... Every time I want to explain stuff, at work for example - I use a diagram. Audio learners must love me.

We were on the road yesterday and Mrs UKS said "We need to take the B3420" and I said, hang on I need to see that, and I literally had to see the numbers in my head.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I dont get it - sorry.

 

[UKSkydiver]

Ah - ok - sorry - I already said I'm not one of those counting weirdos. I thought it was something else.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Ah - ok - sorry - I already said I'm not one of those counting weirdos. I thought it was something else.

I checked back and saw your earlier thread below

This is also me
I'm not one of those weirdos that needs to switch the light on and off twelve times and bang the door shut four times.*

* This is a joke, please don't rip me to shreds. I realise there are many types of neurodivergents - my love of things being lined up being one of them. As I'm one of these weirdos I can make fun of 'us'.

 

[UKSkydiver]

The joy of the written word.

My Mrs reckons I have autism (and actually we probably all have something to one degree or another)

So obvs, I went down a rabbit hole on YouTube researching autism, which in itself clearly doesn't indicate anything. What I determined sounded nothing like me; the feeling of 'looking at other people on the other side of a pane of glass' and 'having to think about how to walk in a group of people'.

Have we discussed this ever? I should do a search......

 

[Twostage]

The joy of the written word.

My Mrs reckons I have autism (and actually we probably all have something to one degree or another)

So obvs, I went down a rabbit hole on YouTube researching autism, which in itself clearly doesn't indicate anything. What I determined sounded nothing like me; the feeling of 'looking at other people on the other side of a pane of glass' and 'having to think about how to walk in a group of people'.

Have we discussed this ever? I should do a search......

I’ve said this before on here but I watched Astrid, murders in Paris about an autistic girl helping solve police enquiries and I kept thinking “I do that”.

 

[Twostage]

Ah,get it now...I visualise anything and everything. If I'm going to do a DIY project it's all ripped down and rebuilt in my head before I start. I "rehearse" loads of things mentally...I just thought I over thought stuff.
What about dreams....mine are technicoloured and complicated. I also change the course of my dream as they're happening as ...weirdly I know it's a dream!

Lucid dreaming - knowing you are in a dream and steering it. Quite rare.

Lots of my dreams are like sci fi films - defending earth from aliens. My missus reckons most of her dreams are about doing domestic chores to which I counter with “at least you are doing them somewhere”

 

[hop-a-long]

The joy of the written word.

My Mrs reckons I have autism (and actually we probably all have something to one degree or another)

So obvs, I went down a rabbit hole on YouTube researching autism, which in itself clearly doesn't indicate anything. What I determined sounded nothing like me; the feeling of 'looking at other people on the other side of a pane of glass' and 'having to think about how to walk in a group of people'.

Have we discussed this ever? I should do a search......

You might want to look at A.S.S. Autism Spectrum Syndrome or Autism Spectrum Disorder

 

[Clint]

Here's one from yesterday. Mrs Clint took me to Llangollen to see some old house that wasn't open. Instead we walked round the gardens and down in the wood by the stream. Which was nice.
I subtly ruined this picture...zoom in on me! Ha!

 

[Dark Arts]

You should have picked up a staff and re-enacted the seen from lord of the rings when the misses tried to cross

 

[Dark Arts]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Not a wonder you rarely see a fat miner in pictures back in the day.