Agamemnon

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[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If 8 trilobites hang out together, would they make a trilobyte?

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shows that those psych-whatever-ists knew drat about the (ancient) greek language, because 'word' would be 'logos' and 'alexi' is actually a greek surname of ancient decent, that would mean 'defender'. The ancient greeks would never have named the condition that way! My impression is that various Freudians and Anti-Freudians converged on the term in the early-mid-20th century as a means to make themselves sound smarter than any of them really were.

Source: As someone named Alexander, I just finally felt vaguely offended enough by the term to start digging a little deeper:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005782/

And also, nothing about the condition as described by modern sources ever made any sense to me - which after reading the article I linked, wasn't even a surprise to me anymore. Sorry, rant over.

TL,DR: It's another piece of etymologic fallout from a historic shitslinging match between researchers and practitioners, but one that didn't get resolved conclusively. Because brains ...

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I am sure Wikipedia has a list...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing#Late_20th_century%E2%80%93Early_21st_century_uncrewed_crash_landings

Aaand right. I think I remember a couple spent rocket stages and debris hitting it that isn't listed, but there shouldn't be much more that would classify as a 'vehicle'.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Haha, in some parts of germany you can do that yourself. on foot. with a zipdisk.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, that's a mood.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah... I had to read that 5 times before I brained it correctly.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi. Thanks for the welcoming.

I'll be mostly hanging back, though. Only acting on reports and illegal content attacks. It's an emergency lifeline that is good to have set up before an emergency happens.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker!"

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Long story that played out over months... Went to the doctors with depressive episode. Got diagnosed burnout. But from what??? So... I dug into researching psychology. Turns out, I inherited the family 'tism and could trace anecdotal evidence back 4 generations. Nobody ever bothered to investigate before. Presented my findings to my therapist and her reaction after listening to it all was (paraphrasing) "You didn't KNOW?".

So, yeah... No 'officially on paper' official diagnosis yet. I don't plan on getting one, because it turns out, the main cause of my problems isn't Autism, it's ADHD on top (that one got official a few months later), but now I am doing better with that under control and unlearning all the masking I did.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, no idea who made this. I would also like to know, but all matches led me back to this post.

 
[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

We can end the comments right here.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Double up with two crows for that extra edge of attempted murder.

 
 
 
 
 
 

I'm not sure if I would be honored or offended.

 
 
 
 
 
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