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i miss Brilliant Minds

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BRILLIANT MINDS 1.12 • The Doctor Whose World Collapsed

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Brilliant Minds said "forcing someone to stay alive when there is no reasonable meaning in forcing them to keep living is cruel, and honoring a patient's wishes means that you have to sometimes have to let them do things that you cannot agree with" and it fucked.

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Steve & Dustin Stranger Things 5 spoilers

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BRILLIANT MINDS • S1E07 ↳ “The Man From Grozny”

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just thought of something

carry on

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this was so fucking funny 😭😭 the gasp

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“I heard the interns are shipping us”

“….to where??”

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Omggggg the fact that the old lady flirting with Wolf and telling him he reminds her of her late husband is Susan Bay Nimoy and I am dyyyying!

It’s spockception, this show now owns me. 💙

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One of the many things Brilliant Minds gets right is how each character's sexual identity is shared. I am SO GRATEFUL that we are finally getting a good TV series where being queer is NOT the major plot and there's no drama or weirdness involved in sharing that with the viewer. We saw it with Oliver, Josh, and now Dana. It's just added to the story in such a seamless way where you feel you knew it all along. Queerness is not their defining characteristic. It's just part of who they are. I love this show for that.

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Prosopagnosia

As someone who has prosopagnosia, I love the way it's portrayed in Brilliant Minds. If you don't know much about the condition, here's some things that might be interesting:

Even though it's called face blindness, face blind people can actually see faces. I see this misconception a lot, and the way they show it from Wolf's perspective kinda reinforces that, but faces aren't actually just blobs. We can see noses, eye colour, mouths, all the features, we can see anything you see. It's just that the faces don't really register as belonging to someone. I see your face, but I don't recognise you in it.

Connected to that, people with prosopagnosia can also read facial expressions, though many do struggle with it a bit, especially with the subtle ones. A lot of face blind people, myself included, do have autism, so it might have to do with that, too.

Depending on how face blind you are, you can actually learn to recognise faces to some extent. My prosopagnosia is quite severe, though not as severe as Wolf's, I think, and I do recognise my parents and my siblings by looking at their faces. However, I usually have to double check by looking at the distinguishing feature I recognise them by. Wolf probably recognises Carol as easily.

That distinguishing feature thing, by the way? Absolutely spot on. We do that.

Context is really important for face blind people. I recognise my colleagues, whom I see every day, quite easily, if I see them at work, where I expect them to be. I still don't recognise them by their faces, but I see them and know immediately who they are. If I see them somewhere other than at work, I won't recognise them unless they make themselves known to me. That's why it makes sense to me that Wolf's prosopagnosia doesn't come up in the later episodes. We see him mainly at work, mainly interacting with people he expects to see in that context.

The more tired you are, the harder it gets to recognise people. It's kinda obvious, but recognising people if your brain can't do that at a glance requires quite a lot of energy. So if you're tired, you can't recognise people you usually know.

It's much more difficult to recognise people in pictures. I don't know anyone in a picture. I don't even know myself in a picture. It's mind blowing to me that people recognise people in real life after only seeing pictures of them.

Face blindness can lead to anxiety. I used to be constantly worried that people think I'm ignoring them. It can make you nervous to even leave the house.

On the other hand, people at work think I'm very friendly, because I always say hi to everyone. I do that in case they're someone I should know.

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Imagine telling him to scan a QR code at a restaurant

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Starting my birthday off right watching one of my favorite guilty pleasure Vin Diesel movies The Last Witch Hunter

Listen I'm a simple bitch he's fine as hell in it and it's got Joe Gilgun whomst I'm in love with although not in this role lol AND Rose Leslie AND Elijah Wood?????

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The Last Witch Hunter (2015) dir. Breck Eisner.