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mWttrs2

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I was very tired of sitting at home so I started looking for a new hobby. I started doing sports but it wasn't enough. On Canadian Pharmacy I read about different types of smoothies. I realized that they are very easy to cook and that they are very tasty and healthy. So now I drink smoothies every morning and sometimes in the evening. My mother also loved this drink.
 
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Leo

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I was very tired of sitting at home so I started looking for a new hobby. I started doing sports but it wasn't enough. On the Internet I read about different types of smoothies. I realized that they are very easy to cook and that they are very tasty and healthy. So now I drink smoothies every morning and sometimes in the evening. My mother also loved this drink.
do you know @voliviavv24?
 

mWttrs2

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I'm very tired of this lockdown. I spend all my time at home because I don't need people at work when I work when there are no visitors. I spend little time outside and it affects me badly. I started taking vitamins that improve my health on Canadian pharmacy and I also try to go out more often. And how do you feel during the lockdown
 
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version

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Anyone been reading this stuff from teachers and parents about the impact of lockdown on kids? Apparently there's been a noticeable delay in things like speech and the ability to socialise.

There were lots of complaints of dwindling attention spans, poor socialisation and whatnot prior to the pandemic, Mark was on about it back in 2009, but I've seen a bunch of discussions from teachers online claiming the students they have now are the worst they've come across.
 
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Clinamenic

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Anyone been reading this stuff from teachers and parents about the impact of lockdown on kids? Apparently there's been a noticeable delay in things like speech and the ability to socialise.

There were lots of complaints of dwindling attention spans, poor socialisation and whatnot prior to the pandemic, Mark was on about it back in 2009, but I've seen a bunch of discussions from teachers online claiming the students they have now are the worst they've come across.
Honestly part of me suspects that lockdown, as a psyche-forming world event, could give rise to ASD-like behavior or characteristics, but I guess that could only be said about children who were intellectually active and robust but socially isolated - whereas I get the impression from what you're saying that children were intellectually and socially deprived, so it probably wouldn't amount to any significant uptick in ASD-like conditions.
 

Clinamenic

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I can speak from personal experience: spending extended periods of time when all I cared about were concepts and other intellectual matters, I palpably felt a deterioration in social skills, not only in social confidence and communication, but also in terms of being able to relate to other people, to relate my world to theirs. And I'd also imagine that, in terms of diagnostic phenomenology, I probably exhibited a greater level of ASD-like behavior during this time.

The remedy so far has consisted of increased socialization (mainly with people in the web3/DAO industry), and by watching more popular media programming. In terms of the media I had been consuming, it was almost exclusively lectures on youtube, and as a form of programming I was effectively cybernetically steering myself away from social normality, steering my world away from the worlds of those around me.
 

Clinamenic

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But I also entered this artificial ASD phase from a socially healthy psychological situation, IE I wasn't born into and strapped into this ASD-like psychological situation. Rather, I've oscillated in and out of it, with the "constant escape" phase being a particularly deep excursion into psychic singularity.
 

Clinamenic

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The psychoneurological states described by terms like ASD and neurodivergence could indeed be more plastic than is implied by the prevailing diagnostic discourse, EG terms like "disorder". That said, disorder and order alike can be temporary.
 

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But I also entered this artificial ASD phase from a socially healthy psychological situation, IE I wasn't born into and strapped into this ASD-like psychological situation. Rather, I've oscillated in and out of it, with the "constant escape" phase being a particularly deep excursion into psychic singularity.

Yeah, I imagine it's got to be more damaging the younger you are too. Saw someone make the analogy of being beaten as a child vs. being beaten as an adult. It's gonna be rough either way, but an adult is developed enough to hopefully cope and bounce back whereas a child will likely be shaped by it in a much more profound way.
 
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Clinamenic

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Could bring new, perhaps even empirical meaning to the term psychonautics. It would also fit Dion Fortune's alleged definition of magic, albeit a form of magic practiced upon oneself.
 

Clinamenic

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Yeah, I imagine it's got to be more damaging the younger you are too. Saw someone make the analogy of being beaten as a child vs. being beaten as an adult. It's gonna be rough either way, but an adult is developed enough to hopefully cope and bounce back whereas a child will likely be shaped by it in a much more profound way.
Totally agree. From here, one can imagine how the world formation of children can condition ASD-like psychological situations. That said, I also don't know if ASDs in general have any real phenotypic correlates, like Down Syndrome, or if it is all diagnosed vis a vis behavior. @WashYourHands do you know if there is an umbrella phenotype for ASDs, or are a lot of the diagnoses based on behaviors which could have been conditioned by experience?
 

Clinamenic

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Totally agree. From here, one can imagine how the world formation of children can condition ASD-like psychological situations. That said, I also don't know if ASDs in general have any real phenotypic correlates, like Down Syndrome, or if it is all diagnosed vis a vis behavior. @WashYourHands do you know if there is an umbrella phenotype for ASDs, or are a lot of the diagnoses based on behaviors which could have been conditioned by experience?
Regarding phenotypes, for a while I've suspected there could be a connection between olfactory desensitivity and apathy, IE dampened hormonal odorant detection leading to a less robust emotional faculty.

I've had a poor sense of smell for a while now.
 

Clinamenic

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If the talk of 'brain plasticity' is true then it may also mean that lockdown kids will be able to bounce back pretty quickly once they're out of the lockdown environment.
I hope so, but I think you're other point is right, that the younger you are, the less control you may consciously have over this, despite functionally having greater levels of neuroplasticity.

Plus, I get the sense that therapy doesn't generally tend to go to these radical depths, but I don't know.
 
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