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You see this often, but it makes sense Our brains don't measure time in a purely quantitative way. It's more qualitative Meaning: We tend defer to events, 'landmarks', i.e. "It's been a while since [significant event]", rather than "It's been 56.3 days since new year" /1 "If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions" I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance. Why? I'll tell you why /1 Firstly, the whole 'your brain stops developing at age 25' thing is spurious anyway. The original studies that came up with this figure, they just didn't include any subjects over 25. So that's when the data... stopped. But that doesn't really mean anything. /2 "We never saw any of this ADHD or autism stuff when I was young!" You never saw any photos of the surface of Mars back then either, but I'm pretty sure it was still there the whole time
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@Garwboy I'm not sure to be alarmed by this stuff or think we've turned a stone in acceptance of autistic people (Always seems to be some step where people just claim its a fad or not real) @Garwboy I want to boost and favorite this toot so much...It breaks Mastodon! Too many people tell me something similar and I roll my eyes into the far flung cosmos. Replying with a simple question, "Never considered why certain people behaved in a particular way Sir/Ma'am?" I appreciate the optimism, guys, but I'm fairly confident it's going to be Charles.
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I suspect the reason many my age (or thereabouts) think 2000 was 'about 10 years ago' is because it's the last actual 'date' we all got genuinely worked about about
The build-up, anxiety, Y2K, conspiracies. It was the last 'date' that was a universal 'emotional' landmark
Some might argue this also applies to 9/11, but a) there was no 'build up' to that, and b) it was roughly the same time in our memories, so likely gets lumped in with 2000.
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@Garwboy 1995 was only five years ago! Wasn't it? WASN'T IT!