In lieu of a 'real' update...
I'm male. At least according to this quiz:
You scored as Male. Being mostly male, within your structures of thinking simply means that your reasoning powers are the way they are perceived in Western Culture higher than the one of the opposite sex. Psychoanalsis claims this to come at the price of creative expression - a rational thinker can not think out of the box it is claimed. Yet, many creative Minds were men.
Male
50%
Either
46%
Neither
43%
Female
25%
Should you be MALE or FEMALE?*
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(from scottishlass)
Is it just me, or does the first sentence of that explanation not make any sense?
Soooo... in the last couple of months I've found out on the internet that...
- I'm male. (Heh. That would explain my recent computer building exploits. *g*)
- I have autistic tendencies. (No kidding now: this would explain most of my childhood, really.)
- I may be asexual.
- I have a problem that seems like a very light form of prosopagnosia (inability to recognize people's faces). Only, apparently a light form of prosopagnosia does not technically exist, at least not according to the information available on the internet... Still, I have never met anybody who reported even remotely the level of difficulties that I have with recognizing people, so I think I *may* not be quite within the normal, 'healthy' range of natural variation there, even if there is no medical term for my exact problem.
In conclusion: I'm a freak, in more ways than one! *g*
Well, of course, internet quizzes and articles or pages on the net that give me a vague 'me too!' feeling aren't exactly incontrovertible evidence. And, frankly, I don't think I'm particularly extreme in any of these respects, even if any of them *should* be provable. I'm not *that* much of a 'freak' - I just have some more or less unusual mental 'features'/deficits. There's probably a wide range of variation for any of these traits among the general population, with most people somewhere in the middle of the scale, whereas I may be slightly off-centre, and perhaps in some cases somewhat closer to one of the extremes than to the centre. Nothing particularly dramatic, really. I do think, however, that these perceived tendencies really do exist in my psychological makeup, and it's kind of interesting how well they fit together. I also think it's interesting that there seems to be a tendency to explain them as *mostly* 'hardwired', or at least acquired so early in life that they may as well be.
So, why am I so eager to find mental deficiencies that I may have? Well, I'm not, not really; I just happened to come across a lot of similarly themed articles recently - synchronicity works in mysterious ways! - and in too many of them I recognised a part of myself. And, well, I just like the idea that parts of my *brain* simply work a bit 'unconventionally' ;-) better than the idea that I'm somehow *psychologically* screwed up in so many ways. E.g., my mom's favourite explanation for my problem with recognizing people used to be that I just didn't pay enough attention to people, that I needed to look at them properly, etc. This made me feel like I was doing something wrong, that I was somehow to *blame* for not recognizing Mrs. X from across the street when I didn't see her in a familiar context. Cue guilty feelings, angsty soul-searching etc. Similar examples (not necessarily involving my mom, as she's not usually this big on guilt-tripping me) could be made for the other 'abnormalities' mentioned above. For more than a decade of my life I've had friends, fellow students, teachers, family members psychoanalyzing me; people always, I think, perceived something slightly 'wrong' about me, and tried to 'fix' me. But maybe there is nothing that needs fixing there. Maybe I just *am* that way.
Or is that just laziness and denial speaking? I really don't think so, but then, psychoanalysis teaches us never to trust our subconscious, so what do I know... *g*
Welllllll... back to Norbert Elias now, whom I've been trying to avoid by typing this...
You scored as Male. Being mostly male, within your structures of thinking simply means that your reasoning powers are the way they are perceived in Western Culture higher than the one of the opposite sex. Psychoanalsis claims this to come at the price of creative expression - a rational thinker can not think out of the box it is claimed. Yet, many creative Minds were men.
Male
50%
Either
46%
Neither
43%
Female
25%
Should you be MALE or FEMALE?*
created with QuizFarm.com
(from scottishlass)
Is it just me, or does the first sentence of that explanation not make any sense?
Soooo... in the last couple of months I've found out on the internet that...
- I'm male. (Heh. That would explain my recent computer building exploits. *g*)
- I have autistic tendencies. (No kidding now: this would explain most of my childhood, really.)
- I may be asexual.
- I have a problem that seems like a very light form of prosopagnosia (inability to recognize people's faces). Only, apparently a light form of prosopagnosia does not technically exist, at least not according to the information available on the internet... Still, I have never met anybody who reported even remotely the level of difficulties that I have with recognizing people, so I think I *may* not be quite within the normal, 'healthy' range of natural variation there, even if there is no medical term for my exact problem.
In conclusion: I'm a freak, in more ways than one! *g*
Well, of course, internet quizzes and articles or pages on the net that give me a vague 'me too!' feeling aren't exactly incontrovertible evidence. And, frankly, I don't think I'm particularly extreme in any of these respects, even if any of them *should* be provable. I'm not *that* much of a 'freak' - I just have some more or less unusual mental 'features'/deficits. There's probably a wide range of variation for any of these traits among the general population, with most people somewhere in the middle of the scale, whereas I may be slightly off-centre, and perhaps in some cases somewhat closer to one of the extremes than to the centre. Nothing particularly dramatic, really. I do think, however, that these perceived tendencies really do exist in my psychological makeup, and it's kind of interesting how well they fit together. I also think it's interesting that there seems to be a tendency to explain them as *mostly* 'hardwired', or at least acquired so early in life that they may as well be.
So, why am I so eager to find mental deficiencies that I may have? Well, I'm not, not really; I just happened to come across a lot of similarly themed articles recently - synchronicity works in mysterious ways! - and in too many of them I recognised a part of myself. And, well, I just like the idea that parts of my *brain* simply work a bit 'unconventionally' ;-) better than the idea that I'm somehow *psychologically* screwed up in so many ways. E.g., my mom's favourite explanation for my problem with recognizing people used to be that I just didn't pay enough attention to people, that I needed to look at them properly, etc. This made me feel like I was doing something wrong, that I was somehow to *blame* for not recognizing Mrs. X from across the street when I didn't see her in a familiar context. Cue guilty feelings, angsty soul-searching etc. Similar examples (not necessarily involving my mom, as she's not usually this big on guilt-tripping me) could be made for the other 'abnormalities' mentioned above. For more than a decade of my life I've had friends, fellow students, teachers, family members psychoanalyzing me; people always, I think, perceived something slightly 'wrong' about me, and tried to 'fix' me. But maybe there is nothing that needs fixing there. Maybe I just *am* that way.
Or is that just laziness and denial speaking? I really don't think so, but then, psychoanalysis teaches us never to trust our subconscious, so what do I know... *g*
Welllllll... back to Norbert Elias now, whom I've been trying to avoid by typing this...