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Blog Entry 8

Sound Design: Resonance – HOME

I’ve decided to go with Resonance by Home, the song that got me hooked on Schyguyy and, in turn, this whole aesthetic. The song I said I’d use before was Memory Reboot but now I feel like that track is too in your face and exciting; I like how neutral Resonance is, it makes the vibe less attributable to one emotion, the uncertain, the unclear, and the undefinable is the essence of liminality.

Research - Technical

I’ve used Reaper to essentially do what time remapping does in Premiere Pro for video, but for audio. Pressed alt T to bring up the tempo envelope, and made 3 BPM keyframes (90, 100, and 120, 120 being the song’s normal tempo) with the second transitioning to the third linearly. I did this because I couldn’t choose between the different popular versions of Resonance, sometimes I like Resonance slowed (.9x) + reverb, other times I like super slowed (.75x), but most often I like the original.

Sidenote: I believe many people who’ve listened to this song and songs like it feel the same; remixes of songs being as popular or more popular than the original appears to be positively correlated with Phonk’s popularity (my personal observation).

I looked for ages trying to find out how to remap the time of an audio clip, something that I thought should be simple as it is for video. I asked google, YouTube, chatgpt, nothing. Finally through clicking different “audio item timebase” options I found a solution that no one else on the internet recommended.

“Beats (auto-stretch at tempo changes)”

Before setting this, Reaper was playing the whole track at the BPM of the last keyframe (120BPM, the track’s original tempo) despite the tempo envelope’s time remapping between 90, 100, and 120. All sorted now.

I’m still fiddling around with reverb, thinking I might even try to keyframe particular parameters so that the sound either starts out sounding far away and low clarity and becomes encapsulating and clear, or vice versa.

Research - Academic

Zuckerman Interview video on genetic basis of sensation-seeking.

“Well, this is determined from twin studies called Biometrics of Behavior Genetics actually. Using these twin studies we initially found that roughly 60% inheritability. In heritability is the proportion of the variance in a trait that is determined by genetics. We discovered there was 60% -- which is very high for a personality trait which generally runs between 30% and 50%. So, 60% is high for a personality trait.” (Zuckerman 2009).

He goes on to talk about a particular dopamine receptor gene having existed in our species for, not all evolution, but around 50,000 – 100,000 years. He says that because analogues of sensation seeking expressions or approaches to novelty in other species linked to the same biological indicators that humans have, this is more than just an analogy, it indicates it has evolutionary history.

So, I could potentially have some visuals that come up displaying evolution as a potential cause of this ability to have a dulled fear response that gives the individual the rewarding satisfaction of completing a dangerous task.

Research - Creative Practice

Looking some examples of good Reverb and how it started out. King Tubby was a prominent figure in the Jamaican soundsystem culture of the 50s. His sound engineering work was pivotal to the creation of reggae and dub in the 60s & 70s; apparently, he’s known for basically creating the concept of remixing!

His modest use of reverb is present on the snare, it’s very noticeable.

“One of Meek’s most famous techniques was using different reverberant spaces in his studio and house for recording instruments with natural room sound—like under his staircase or in his bathroom.

Listen to the different kinds of spaces he creates with various reverbs, especially the uniquely spacey reverb on the backup vocal line: ‘I Hear a New World.’” (Trandafir, 2022).

Feedback on Videos Week 8

Last Train Edit:

Harry

What’s the mood or style?

Reminds me of JDM car core, where people show off their cars at night time in minimal lighting.

When you see this kind of video where it looks lonely or only has one subject, do you find it creepy?

In the context of how you’ve edited the video, no. But you could, the space itself is not inherently dangerous or creepy, so the space alone isn’t creepy. More aesthetic than uncanny. And the music is not creepy, sort of peaceful almost.

Lucas

What’s the mood or style?

Quite moody, feel like that song is often used in tiktoks with beauty in them or representing something emotionally motivated or trigger emotions. So that sort of paired with the color grading and the style of the video, creates this real almost reflective feeling.

2.When you see this kind of video where it looks lonely or only has one subject, do you find it creepy?

Nah, more of a feeling of beauty. It’s like the “are you lonely I can’t fix that” blade runner moment, soft. I can’t explain it really, I’d have to think about it for a moment. It’s like standing in the rain but you're not cold and your mind is clear and you’re just there. I can’t put it into words, not static not uncomfortable not creepy not warm it’s just yeah. It’s like a version of the sublime.

Carpark Edit:

Harry

I like the composition; I like how all the yous overlap.

What’s the mood, style, or emotion provoked?

Feels busy, there a lot more going on; busier. Makes me feel relaxed. Really like how it’s layed out, it’s very satisfying. Feels quiet even though there’s music. I like how the pole is in in the right third. However, you running at the camera right at the end, is a large contrast to the vibe before that; the mood and seriousness kind of changes. Really liked the environment, you leaning against that pole alone makes you acknowledge the empty environment. These environments are really interesting cuz it doesn’t look like how I imagine Australia looking.

2. When you see this kind of video where it looks lonely or only has one subject, do you find it creepy?

Perhaps the setting itself is more uncanny. If it was just one you leaning against the poll and no rotos it’d probably be creepier and uncannier. So having all those rotos there takes that potential creepiness away.

Lucas

What’s the mood or style?

Crazy how much sound design affects the vibe cuz that one feels way more stranger things. 80s vibes. I feel like that fits in with the aesthetic. Quite a similar feeling until the end running part that parts quite different adds this urgency to it where the whole rest of the video doesn’t. Totally changed the overall feeling. That running was pretty violent, I don’t think it suits at all, even is slowed down (slowmo) further.

2. When you see this kind of video where it looks lonely or only has one subject, do you find it creepy?

No. I feel like it’s like same sort of video as a guy sitting out the front of a 711 smoking a cigarette and listening to music at like 1am feeling content; It’s an in-between, beauty of the in-between of the suburban lifestyle. Kid that has to wait for a train for an hour cuz the next train doesn’t come for an hour and you’re just sat there waiting, not in a rush cuz you can’t make it come any faster.

Takeaways:

More human presence appears to take away that creepy/uncanny potential

Off centre positioning of large/noticeable objects may be an effective technique, satisfying. e.g., when there’s just me leaning against a large electricity pole in the right third of the frame, and nothing else to see except the environment.

Peaceful

A feeling that is hard to articulate, "reflective feeling" "version of the sublime" "Your mind is clear and you're just there"

The running rotoscope of me breaks the immersion and the feeling; I will not be doing this again.

(McLean, 2023) (Horta, 2023).

I want to make the point that with just a slight change of the human presence and music, the video could become creepy and uncanny; this reminds me of how exhilaration works, it often straddles the threshold of excitement and fear. Essentially, everything ties in as this description of exhilaration is liminal in itself, i.e., occupying a position at or on both sides of a boundary or threshold (being the boundary of excitement and fear).

Works Cited

Big Think and Zuckerman, M. (2009) ‘The Genetic Basis of Risk-Seeking’, Big Think.

McLean, H.M. (2023). Interview by Rory Henderson, hmsex2023-rorys3965039, 16.09.2023.

Horta, L.H. (2023). Interview by Rory Henderson, hmsex2023-rorys3965039, 16.09.2023.

Trandafir, L. (2022) 8 songs that belong in the Reverb Hall of Fame, LANDR Blog. Available at: https://blog.landr.com/8-reverb-examples/ (Accessed: 15 September 2023).

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dracademy · 2 years ago

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Principles of inheritance & variations

The process of passing on heritable qualities from parents to their children is known as Heredity. Biology's field of Genetics examines the fundamental ideas behind how traits are passed down and how they are changed. Heredity is based on Inheritance, and via this process, characteristics are passed from one generation to the next. The process of inheritance preserves continuity in the gene pool. The fundamental unit of inheritance is a Gene, which is found on chromosomes. Individual members of the species vary from one another. Crossover, recombination, mutation, and the impact of the environment on the expression of genes found on chromosomes are all causes of Variation.

Mendel’s Law of Inheritance

The "Father of Genetics" is Gregor Johann Mendel. He referred to genes as factors that parents pass on to their children. Alleles are genes that encode for a pair of opposing features.

On the basis of his observations, he developed 3 laws of inheritance.

Law of dominance- Tallness is a dominant trait over dwarfness because when homozygous tall and dwarf plants are crossed, all of the progeny have the genotype.

Law of gene segregation- Each allele separates during meiosis at the moment of gamete production, according to the. Characters are distributed to different gametes without any mixing.

Law of independent assortment- Alleles for various traits are inherited separately.

Incomplete Dominance- When neither of the two alleles is dominant and neither parent's phenotype matches that of the heterozygote. The heterozygote exhibits intermediate or a fusion of the traits of the two parents.

Codominance- The two alleles are considered to be codominant when they express themselves simultaneously in an individual.

Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance- Mendal's discoveries were supported by Sutton and Boveri, who claimed that chromosomes are the carriers of genes. The two alleles of a gene are situated on a homologous pair of chromosomes at the same location. Independent chromosome segregation and assortment occur. Gametes unite during fertilization to create offspring with a similar number of diploid chromosomes to the parent. Linkage is the physical connection of genes on a chromosome. In a dihybrid cross, the parental combination predominates over non-parental combinations or recombinants if the two genes are closely connected or present on the same chromosome.

Sex Determination- Each type of organism has its own unique sex-determination system. The X body was first identified by Henking, who also gave it its name. The other chromosomes are referred to as autosomes, and the chromosomes that control the emergence of sexual characteristics are known as sex chromosomes. Man heterogamety, which occurs when a man produces two different types of gametes, and female heterogamety, which occurs when a female produces two different types of gametes, are both recognised as biological phenomena.

Mutation- A mutation is any alteration to the DNA sequence. Viable mutations are passed down from generation to generation. Although it is connected to many diseases, not all mutations are bad. Genetic mutations come in two different varieties.

1. Point Mutation- A replacement has occurred in the single base pair of DNA.

2. Frameshift Mutation- It happens when one or more pairs of DNA bases are added or taken out. Triplet codons, which specify specific protein amino acids through their reading frames, are altered.

Genetic Disorders- The change of chromosomes or mutation of genes can result in a variety of inherited diseases in humans. By examining the pattern of inheritance of a specific feature present throughout several generations of a person, pedigree helps in determining the likelihood of genetic condition in the progeny. There are two categories of genetic disorders: 1. Mendelian Disorders 2. Chromosomal disorders

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bestworstcase · 2 years ago

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Regarding Cinder and the silver glare, do you have any thoughts about what's really going on?

MANY

one of the key things that interests me about the silver eyes is how little we really know about them compared to every other kind of magic (“magic” here including supernatural abilities that the characters do not conceive of as magic)—and how much of that is explicitly guesswork and legend.

so this is what we know:

1. silver eyes are a heritable trait

2. the silver glare is empowered by the desire to preserve life (and by extension, grief.)

3. the glare petrifies grimm, but not always permanently

4. the two children ozma had with a regular revival-humanity woman both have silver eyes—possibly suggestive of a link to one or both gods, either darkness (via the original-humanity magical gift) or light (via whatever modification he made to ozma’s soul to facilitate the reincarnation).

5. every single named/noteworthy silver eyes character we’ve met thus far has been soaked in thematic or symbolic connections to death; grim reaper imagery etc.

6. silver eyes have also consistently been symbolically associated with the shattered moon, itself a symbol of original-humanity’s decimation and revival-humanity’s resurrection

7. death itself, on the spiritual level, occurs in an infinite white abyss; living souls can briefly enter this realm if they are connected to the dying, as we’ve seen in the case of the maidens, and power can be passed from soul to soul in these moments

8. in v4, ruby dreams/experiences flashbacks of pyrrha’s final words and the last word pyrrha heard cinder say, even though ruby wasn’t present to hear this exchange.

9. maria believes that the glare can only activate against the grimm—hence the general assumption that cinder’s grimm hybridization is what makes her vulnerable

10. maria also speculated that the ability is a gift from the god of light, on the grounds of the brilliant flash of white light he emits upon transformation into a dragon and its obliteration of the grimm. however, the ability is also intricately and inextricably anchored to love, to connection, to grief, to the desire to preserve life because life is precious—all things that the god of light not only lacks but harshly punished and perceived as arrogant defiance.

11. salem makes the strong implication that cinder’s vulnerability to the glare is connected to her newfound power—and i’m inclined to think that’s true, if characteristically vague and cryptic.

12. cinder has been hit by the full force of the glare TWICE—once atop beacon tower, where it burnt her left side so badly that she lost an eye and most of her arm; and once in atlas, where it didn’t appear to harm her whatsoever other than perhaps some lingering pain in her grimm arm. in 7.13 she escapes after the light hits her:

& this feels significant because cinder is more grimm in 7.13 than she was in 3.12; so it doesn’t make sense for her to escape the second glare unscathed—unless her vulnerability to it isn’t just being grimm.

13. likewise, the hound was damaged but not destroyed or petrified by the glare and—well the person inside was already so fucked up that it’s impossible to say with certainty whether the glare injured him more, but it doesn’t seem to.

and i will add further:

14. “for it is in passing that we achieve immortality. through this we become paragons of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death” suggests a cultural association between death and transcendence, and is explicitly called back to in the opening song for the volume in which we learned that humankind went extinct as a consequence of divine execution and then came back somehow, still human but lacking the blessings of the gods—blessings that always came with strings; ergo, revival humanity is free. unbound by death, in the literal sense.

so with all of THAT in mind my general thought is that the silver eyes might have arisen from the death and resurrection of humanity, possibly in the form of latent potential kickstarted by the inkling of magic ozma’s silver-eyed children inherited from him; and that the brilliant white light of the glare is in fact the same white light in the liminal abyss where the living and the dead can touch. it resembles the power wielded by the god of light because the gods are the raw material from which humanity was formed, but it’s not his. it’s the profoundly human desire to live and defend the lives of others, and the anguish of death that goes hand-in-hand with that desire, made manifest.

and i don’t think it targets the grimm as such; my theory is that the glare attacks agents of death—thus, the grimm, whose sole purpose is to hunt and kill humans, and also people… tainted? by fleeting spiritual connection with a person they’ve killed.

i think being grimm in and of itself does make cinder vulnerable to the glare in general—certainly it seems to always cause pain in the grimm arm—but that’s not why the glare hurt her so badly on top of beacon tower. because what happens mere seconds before cinder loses her left arm and her left eye to the glare?

she uses her left hand to kill pyrrha, and we see this act reflected in ruby’s left eye as she witnesses the murder of her friend.

so those are the things ruby’s magically-empowered grief takes from her.

#this one also lives on the #‘grimm corruption is a smokescreen actions and choices are what matter’ pile

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maaarine · 3 years ago

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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology (John Ruscio, Barry Beyerstein, Steven J. Lynn, Scott Lilienfeld, 2009)

“In this book, you’ll encounter 50 myths that are commonplace in the world of popular psychology. (…)

Most People Use Only 10% of Their Brain Power

Some People Are Left-Brained, Others Are Right-Brained

Extrasensory Perception (ESP) Is a Well-Established Scientific Phenomenon

Visual Perceptions Are Accompanied by Tiny Emissions from the Eyes

Subliminal Messages Can Persuade People to Purchase Products

Playing Mozart’s Music to Infants Boosts Their Intelligence

Adolescence Is Inevitably a Time of Psychological Turmoil

Most People Experience a Midlife Crisis in Their 40s or Early 50s

Old Age Is Typically Associated with Increased Dissatisfaction and Senility

When Dying, People Pass through a Universal Series of Psychological Stages

Human Memory Works like a Tape Recorder or Video Camera, and Accurate Records Events We’ve Experienced

Hypnosis Is Useful for Retrieving Memories of Forgotten Events

Individuals Commonly Repress the Memories of Traumatic Experiences

Most People with Amnesia Forget All Details of Their Earlier Lives

Intelligence (IQ) Tests Are Biased against Certain Groups of People

If You’re Unsure of Your Answer When Taking a Test, It’s Best to Stick with Your Initial Hunch

The Defining Feature of Dyslexia Is Reversing Letters

Students Learn Best When Teaching Styles Are Matched to Their Learning Styles

Hypnosis Is a Unique “Trance” State that Differs in Kind from Wakefulness

Researchers Have Demonstrated that Dreams Possess Symbolic Meaning

People Can Learn Information, like New Languages, while Asleep

During “Out-of-Body” Experiences, People’s Consciousness Leaves Their Bodies

The Polygraph (“Lie Detector”) Test Is an Accurate Means of Detecting Dishonesty

Happiness Is Determined Mostly by Our External Circumstances

Ulcers Are Caused Primarily or Entirely by Stress

A Positive Attitude Can Stave off Cancer

Opposites Attract: We Are Most Romantically Attracted to People Who Differ from Us

There’s Safety in Numbers: The More People Present at an Emergency, the Greater the Chance that Someone Will Intervene

Men and Women Communicate in Completely Different Ways

It’s Better to Express Anger to Others than to Hold It in

Raising Children Similarly Leads to Similarities in Their Adult Personalities

The Fact that a Trait Is Heritable Means We can’t change it

Low Self-Esteem Is a Major Cause of Psychological Problems

Most People Who Were Sexually Abused in Childhood Develop Severe Personality Disturbances in Adulthood

People’s Responses to Inkblots Tell Us a Great Deal about Their Personalities

Our Handwriting Reveals Our Personality Traits

Psychiatric Labels Cause Harm by Stigmatizing People

Only Deeply Depressed People Commit Suicide

People with Schizophrenia Have Multiple Personalities

Adult Children of Alcoholics Display a Distinctive Profile of Symptoms

There’s Recently Been a Massive Epidemic of Infantile Autism

Psychiatric Hospital Admissions and Crimes Increase during Full Moons

Most Mentally Ill People Are Violent

Criminal Profiling Is Helpful in Solving Cases

A Large Proportion of Criminals Successfully Use the Insanity Defense

Virtually All People Who Confess to a Crime Are Guilty of It

Expert Judgment and Intuition Are the Best Means of Making Clinical Decisions

Abstinence Is the Only Realistic Treatment Goal for Alcoholics Alcoholics

All Effective Psychotherapies Force People to Confront the “Root” Causes of Their Problems in Childhood

Electroconvulsive (“Shock”) Therapy Is a Physically Dangerous and Brutal Treatment”

#50 great myths of popular psychology #book

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catbreeds2 · 3 years ago

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Norwegian Forest Cats

The mild and pleasant Norwegian Forest Cat — Wegie, for brief — is keen on members of the family however doesn’t demand fixed consideration and petting.

The Norwegian Forest Cat, known as the skogkatt (forest cat) in Norway, is a pure breed and regardless of its feral look is just not a descendant or a hybrid of any wild cat species. Forest Cats in all probability arrived in Norway from Europe, descendants of home cats launched to northern Europe by the Romans. It’s supposed that the Norwegian Forest Cat has existed for a very long time, since a number of mentions of enormous, lengthy haired cats exist in Norse mythology. Estimates of when these cat tales had been written fluctuate tremendously. Most Norse myths had been handed down by oral custom and had been lastly recorded in what was known as the Edda poems, written someday between 800 A.D. and 1200 A.D. These myths recommend that home cats have been in Norway for lots of, presumably 1000’s, of years. Whether or not the cats portrayed within the myths are Forest Cats is topic to debate.

When cats arrived within the northern international locations, most probably with human settlers, merchants, or crusaders, the breed’s progenitors had been most likely brief haired, for the reason that cats transported by the Romans got here from Egypt (typically) and had been brief haired varieties. The cats survived and in time tailored to the extreme local weather. Northern Norway, the place the solar by no means units from Could 12 to August 1, and the place the winter nights are correspondingly lengthy and darkish, proved a harsh take a look at for these cats. Over the centuries of prowling the Norwegian forests, they developed lengthy, dense, water resistant coats, hardy constitutions, fast wits, and well-honed survival instincts.

The primary efforts to have the Forest Cat acknowledged as a definite breed started within the 1930s. The primary Norwegian cat membership was based in 1934, and in 1938 the primary Forest Cat was exhibited at a present in Oslo, Norway. World Battle II, nevertheless, put a damper on all cat breeding and displaying, and after the warfare the breed got here near extinction. Interbreeding with Norway’s brief haired home cat (known as the hauskatt) threatened the Forest Cat’s existence as a pure breed. It wasn’t till the 1970s that the cat fanciers of Norway began a severe breeding program to protect the Norwegian Forest Cat.

Wegies (as Forest Cats are affectionately identified) arrived in the USA in 1980. The identical 12 months, a small group of American fanciers based the Norwegian Forest Cat Fanciers’ Affiliation and started working to get the Forest Cat acknowledged by North American cat registries. TICA, the primary to acknowledge the breed, accepted the Wegie for Championship competitors in 1984. The breed attained CFA Championship standing in 1993 and received during the last affiliation, ACA, in 1995.

Measurement: These are large cats. Males can weigh 13 to 22 kilos or extra, with females considerably smaller. The Wegie matures slowly and isn’t full grown till 5 years of age.

Life Span: 12 to 16 years

NORWEGIAN FOREST CAT PERSONALITY

The persona of the Norwegian Forest cat could be very people-oriented cat and really interactive They usually be taught methods, get pleasure from fetching issues and take properly to a harness and leash.

Undoubtedly not a couch-potato, they’re playful and dog-like, and will be nice cats for the correct youngsters protecting in thoughts that some people choose to perch shut by slightly than on their human companions.

Not your best option for people who’ve lengthy work days, they may turn out to be bored and typically damaging if left alone too lengthy.

The Forest cat is a pleasant selection for households and busy households the place they are going to co-mingle joyfully with quite a lot of two and four-legged pals.

These cats undoubtedly take pleasure in some out of doors time, and if uncovered to colder climes will develop a fully extraordinary coat of fur that sheds out in mounds-full within the spring and summer season months.

The Norwegian Forest cat has been acknowledged by the Cat Fanciers Affiliation (CFA), the world’s largest cat group, since 1993. It’s a comparatively unusual pure-bred or “pedigreed” home cat breed.

They arrive in any colour or sample and the attractive coat is lengthy and silky with a dense undercoat. This pure breed doesn’t require as a lot grooming as another long-haired breeds, do to much less matting, however there may be heavy shedding of the undercoat, often within the spring, that common brushing will assist management.

These are lengthy, giant and highly effective cats which have few breed-related well being points, apart from a bent to some kidney and coronary heart problems. Hold these points in thoughts when interviewing breeders.

As a result of it’s lively and will be demanding of human interplay the Norwegian Forest cat could be a superb household pet that does significantly nicely with thoughtful kids, kinds sturdy bonds, and likes to be included in all the things.

NORWEGIAN FOREST CAT HEALTH

Each pedigreed cats and mixed-breed cats have various incidences of well being issues that could be genetic in nature. Norwegian Forest Cats are typically wholesome, with an extended life span of 14 to 16 years. The next ailments have been seen within the breed:

– Glycogen Storage Illness IV, a uncommon heritable situation that impacts metabolism of glucose. Most kittens with the illness are stillborn or die inside just a few hours of start, however often a kitten won’t present indicators till about 5 months of age and normally die inside a couple of months. A DNA take a look at is accessible that may determine affected and provider cats. – Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a type of coronary heart illness that’s inherited in some cat breeds such because the Maine Coon. Heritability has not been confirmed within the Norwegian Forest Cat. – Polycystic kidney illness, a genetic situation that progressively destroys the kidneys. No DNA check for the illness is offered for Norwegian Forest Cats, however the illness might be detected via ultrasound as early ass 10 months of age. – Retinal dysplasia, an eye fixed defect that causes spots on the retina however doesn’t worsen the cat’s imaginative and prescient.

NORWEGIAN FOREST CAT CARE

Brush or comb the Norwegian Forest Cat’s lengthy coat a couple of times per week, utilizing a bristle brush, wire slicker brush or chrome steel comb. For those who run throughout tangles, work them out gently so that you don’t harm the cat. A shower isn’t obligatory, which is an effective factor. With the Wegie’s virtually mackintosh, it may be very troublesome to get him moist sufficient for a shower.

Brush the enamel to stop periodontal illness. Day by day dental hygiene is greatest, however weekly brushing is best than nothing. Wipe the corners of the eyes every day with a smooth, damp material to take away any discharge. Use a separate space of the fabric for every eye so that you don’t run the chance of spreading any an infection. Examine the ears weekly. If they appear soiled, wipe them out with a cotton ball or gentle damp fabric moistened with a 50-50 combination of cider vinegar and heat water. Keep away from utilizing cotton swabs, which may injury the inside of the ear.

Maintain the litter field spotlessly clear. Like all cats, Wegies are very explicit about rest room hygiene. A clear litter field can even assist to maintain their fur clear.

He’s actually constructed to outlive a chilly local weather, however it’s a good suggestion to maintain a Norwegian Forest Cat as an indoor-only cat to guard him from illnesses unfold by different cats, assaults by canine or coyotes, and the opposite risks that face cats who go open air, reminiscent of being hit by a automotive. Wegies who go open air additionally run the danger of being stolen by somebody who wish to have such an uncommon cat with out paying for it. If potential, construct your Wegie a big outside enclosure the place he can benefit from the parts safely.

NORWEGIAN FOREST CAT BREED TRAITS

The Norwegian Forest Cat’s distinguishing double coat varies in size based on the time of yr. The cat goes by way of a spring ‘molting,’ when the winter coat is shed, and a fall shedding, when the summer season coat departs. At these occasions of 12 months, thorough combing is critical except you need seasonal layers of cat hair on the whole lot. The remainder of the yr the Forest Cat requires minimal grooming since he tends to hold onto his coat, maybe remembering these harsh winters.

NORWEGIAN FOREST CAT COAT COLOR AND GROOMİNG

The Norwegian Forest Cat is notable for his lengthy, thick, stunning coat and huge measurement. The top has an inverted triangle form, pointed on the chin after which widening on either side up towards the medium to massive ears, that are closely tufted. Massive, almond-shaped eyes are inexperienced, gold or copper, though white cats might have blue eyes or odd eyes (one blue eye and one eye of one other coloration). The reasonably lengthy physique seems to be highly effective, with its broad chest and closely muscled thighs. Massive spherical paws have tufts of fur between the toes. The fuzzy tail is so long as the physique.

The weatherproof double coat varies in size. The “bib” begins with a brief collar on the neck, “mutton chops” on the aspect and a full frontal ruff. Full britches—lengthy hair on the thighs—cowl the hind legs. On the physique the coat is lengthy and flowing, however it modifications with the seasons. A Wegie in summer time seems comparatively bare in comparison with his full winter glory. The coat is available in nearly each colour and sample, with or with out white, with the exceptions of chocolate, lavender or lilac, or a pointed sample like that of the Siamese.

NORWEGIAN FOREST KITTENS

Norwegian forest kittens are typically simply very energetic, even a bit rowdy, notably when there may be multiple. They may run by way of the home like colts at play and check the boundaries of all furnishings.

Regardless of their rambunctious nature, they’re normally fairly trainable with solely occasional litter-box difficulties. It is a breed that has been recognized to love privateness when utilizing the potty, so discovering an excellent place for the field is necessary.

Kitten-proofing is unquestionably really useful for anybody contemplating adopting or buying any kitten.

Excessive furnishings must be off limits, warning must be taken when holding these wriggly little kids, notably when carrying them throughout laborious wooden or tile flooring, and areas underneath counters and doorways ought to be blocked off as they’ve a really robust urge to discover.

In Look, the Norwegian Forest kitten goes via just a few totally different levels They’re little fluff-balls of their first weeks, however undergo a gangly, colt-like part as 5 to 18 month previous youngsters.

These further huge cats can take as much as 5 years to succeed in full mature dimension and look!

Vitamin is essential for all cats, however giant breed kittens require the most effective recipes when rising.

It is a comparatively uncommon breed and they aren’t at all times available so in case you are searching for a pure bred Norwegian Forest kitten to purchase you might have to look a bit to discover a Norwegian Forest cat breeder.

NORWEGIAN FOREST BREED STANDARD

Head Form: The pinnacle is formed like an equilateral triangle with all sides of equal size as measured from the surface of the bottom of the ear to the surface base of the opposite ear and following down the facet of the pinnacle to the chin and again as much as the ear. The neck is brief and closely muscled. The nostril is straight from the forehead ridge to the tip and not using a break within the line. Ears are medium to massive, rounded on the tip, broad on the base, set as a lot on the aspect of the top as on high of the top – alert, with the cup of the ears pointing a bit sideways. Ears are closely tufted with lynx ideas being very fascinating. The eyes must be massive, almond formed, well-opened, expressive; set at a slight angle with the outer nook larger than the inside nook. Eyes are inexperienced, gold, or copper in colour. White cats could also be odd-eyed or blue eyed.

Physique and Tail: Physique is giant, medium to lengthy with plenty of bone, a broad, deep chest and flank and vast, highly effective shoulders. Legs are medium in size with good bone. The hind legs are longer than the entrance. The paws are medium to massive with a slight toe-out. There ought to be heavy tufting between the toes. 5 toes in entrance, 4 in again. The tail is lengthy and bushy, equal to the physique in size.

Coat: Full double coat, thick and woolly below and lengthy, flowing and full outer. A neck ruff, toe feathering, ear furnishings and ear tufts are all fascinating.

Sample: Tiger and tabby colours are commonest however many colours are acceptable. Factors, particularly, usually are not fascinating.

Total Look: This must be a large, imposing, and muscular cat with a protracted, highly effective torso, and good bone. A beautiful, wild wanting cat with an athletic, highly effective presence and a playful, dog-like persona.

A FEW MORE NORWEGIAN FOREST CAT FACTS

Norwegian Forest cats are closely furred to guard them from the northern local weather of their origin. They’ve fuzzy ears and even have fur between the toes- like fluffy snow shoes- referred to as “toe-feathers”

#catbreeds #norwegiancats #norwegianforestcats

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atlaskat · 5 years ago

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Bakugou Katsuki -- psychological analysis (meta)

I’m not a psychologist, just a social science student studying for an exam, so take this with a grain of salt.

I’m also not totally up to date with the manga (I’ve read up until volume 17). Please feel free to add your own thoughts in the replies if you want to, or call me out if I make a mistake.

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I won’t be speaking too much on biological factors, but I think it might be good to just go through some thoughts I have on the matter. In psychological theory, there’s something called “temperament”, which is essentially a child’s most basic form of relating to the world. A well-known experiment on temperament is the famous Marshmallow experiment, where small children were presented with a marshmallow. If they could wait a certain amount of time without eating it, they would receive one more. Follow-up studies on these children showed that those which showed restraint and could wait for the marshmallow had generally gotten further in life -- these children often developed the capability of making and sticking to long-term plans, and were able to work much more methodically than their peers.

I think Katsuki would be one of the children that waited for another marshmallow. At first glance, he seems very impulsive, rushing into battle and relying on his brute force -- but I’m actually very sure that this characteristic is part of his later development, and not part of his temperament. The reason I believe this is because he shows a very clear understanding of a much bigger and long-term picture. He is very committed to becoming a hero, and this commitment entails behavior which isn’t completely typical for people his age (such as studying hard, never slacking off despite his delinquent-like persona -- even in middle school --, sleeping early, training very hard to maintain his physical condition even as a young teen, etc). This shows his self-restraint, and his ability to plan ahead.

(I’m aware that the amount of pressure to do well in education is very different in many Asian countries, but compare Katsuki to for example Kaminari -- who also wants to be a hero, but is at the bottom of his class and doesn’t seem very good at planning or studying hard. What I think is most important here is to highlight Katsuki’s commitment).

I would also argue that heritability play a role in Katsuki’s personality and cognition. Intelligence and capability to learn have some hereditary factors, which I think apply to Katsuki. It’s difficult to say what came first in this regard though -- a child might be born with a slight affinity for learning (being able to memorize things quickly could be such a trait), but this doesn’t mean they become “smarter” because of it. In this specific case, the humanistic approach of “without the right support and challenge, no child will reach their full potential” is applicable.

Still, I think Katsuki was born with at least some higher capability to grasp new concepts, which I think plays a part in his, at least partial, understanding of what it takes to not just get on top but actually stay there. Quickly memorizing new information could also play a part in the way others view him -- thinking he’s skilled, amazing, even as a small child -- which in turn fuel both his willingness to learn and his ego. I think his kindergarten years are hugely important, more on it later.

The last thing I would like to say Katsuki was born with is extroversion. This personality trait can be studied in the brain -- the “reward systems” of the brain (mainly dopamine production and the middle brain as well as around nucleus accumbens) react stronger to positive emotions. I say “born with” because of its clear hereditary implications (and as I think this trait comes from his mother Mitsuki. However, it’s possible to theorize that instead of being born with extroversion, Katsuki was born more or less without neuroticism, which occurs when the activity of the amygdala is higher than normal. This leads people to be more anxious, cautious, and avoid situations which might cause unpleasant emotions). Katsuki was very young (2-4 years old) when he first began enjoying being the center of attention, which I think shows he was born with extroversion.

Katsuki’s attachment style Since we haven’t seen that many interactions between Katsuki hand his family, especially not as a child, this part will contain a lot of my own theories and headcanons, sorry about that.

Attachment styles are easily perceived phenomenons studied in depth by Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby. Ainsworth noted that a child’s style of attachment manifests itself in two primary forms:

Stranger anxiety and separation anxiety. After 6 months of age a child will show an autonomous need to be close to, or seek comfort in, their “object of attachment”, usually a parent (often the mother). This need becomes apparent when the child is introduced to a stranger, or left alone, through signs of stress/anxiety.

Ainsworth devised a test to study these anxieties -- the “Strange Situation”. The test looks like this:

The child arrives in a new room together with the mother

A stranger appears

The child is left alone with the stranger

The stranger leaves

The mother returns

All in all this only took three minutes. The most interesting part was the child’s reaction once the mother came back -- its attachment style was most clear then.

Children usually have one main attachment style, which have two categories with a few subcategories. Secure attachment The child clearly prefers the mother to the stranger. It might cry or be anxious while the mother is gone, but stops as soon as she returns. These children go on to use their object of attachment as a secure base while they explore the world, meaning they return to seek comfort if they experience something negative, but quickly recover.

Later in life, these people can regulate emotions with more ease. They also cope better with adversity, and are able to connect better with people their age (forming deeper relationships). I believe Izuku was a securely attached child. Insecure attachment This form is more complicated. It has three main categories:

1. Resistant attachment The child has attached itself to in this case the mother, but the attachment is less stable. The child is anxious to let the mother out of sight -- doesn’t trust she will come back. The child may continue crying even after the mother returns and cradles it. 2. Avoidant attachment The child, generally doesn’t cry and doesn’t show its physical/emotional needs. Often it will act a bit aloof -- avoiding or completely ignoring the mother. It will act similarly towards the mother as with the stranger. These children have learned that their natural behaviors to attract attention from their objects of attachment will lead to rejection, so they suppress the needs for affection/comfort. More often than not they still experience the same levels of anxiety as other children, but don’t seek their parents to soothe them.

Disorganized attachment The child shows a lot of contradictory behavior, such as crying to be picked up, but immediately wanting to be let down again, often as a result of being scared of their object of attachment. People who were insecurely attached as children generally have more emotional problems, and are at higher risk for mental illness. I believe Katsuki had an avoidant attachment style. The attachment style of a child is largely based on the behavior of the object(s) of attachment, the parents. Insecure attachment is usually the result of parents not understanding/being unable to provide the comfort their infants seek. My theory is that Mitsuki is, like her son, a very determined and career-driven person. Like I’ve said before, I think she’s extroverted, but I also believe that she doesn’t easily connect deeply on an emotional level with people. This could be a result of how she herself was treated as a child -- as we tend to mimic our own parents -- or simply just her personality. Her own emotional needs might not take up a big part of her life, or she doesn’t really need others to comfort her, which in turn means she might assume others are the same. Ainsworth had a few criteria for a “good parent”:

1. Responsive 2. Permissive 3. Cooperative 4. Psychologically available

I think Mitsuki was, or is, lacking in most/all of these. Clearly, from what we’ve seen, she’s stubborn and knuckle-headed -- while she might have been responsive to baby Katsuki, she might not have known how to handle things beside his clear physical needs, like keeping him fed and clean. If she was also working during this period, as I would definitely assume (considering her job as a fashion designer and how well-off the family is; they live in a huge house), her availability might have suffered. Think like this:

- Mitsuki is tired, but has to finish work - Katsuki begins crying - Mitsuki changes his diaper and feeds him, but puts him down again to work - Katsuki starts crying after only a little while, but nothing ‘looks’ wrong (he’s fed, clean, warm, etc) so Mitsuki goes back to work - Katsuki continues crying, which frustrates Mitsuki because ‘nothing is wrong’; she might snap -- such as yelling, ignoring Katsuki further, or leaving the room entirely. As Katsuki begins to speak (let’s say at around 1,5 years), he might try to achieve emotional closeness by showing her his toys, trying to talk to her/play with her. If he is already ‘extroverted’ by this point he will be a lot more vocal than a timid child his age. If he hurts himself, or becomes scared, he probably tries to get Mitsuki’s attention at first, and I think this is where her biggest mistake might’ve lied. Based on how she treats Katsuki being kidnapped by the League of Villains I believe she disregards a lot of comfort-seeking behaviors as weakness.

“When you get down to it, you got taken and inconvenienced everybody cuz you’re so weak!!” I think this shows clearly how Mitsuki herself feels. Of course she worried for her son’s safety, but worrying about someone in itself is an inconvenience to her. She equates her own worrying with other people’s weakness -- if only people weren’t so weak, she wouldn’t have to be inconvenienced by worry. Mitsuki, like any parent, never wanted anything bad to happen to Katsuki. She was probably very aware that the world could be a dangerous place, so she tried to eradicate any ‘weakness’ within her own child so as he couldn’t be hurt by the world. I’m not sure where to place Masaru, Katsuki’s father, in all of this. A child can have several objects of attachment, but Bowlby expressed that usually there is a sort of hierarchy in the attachments themselves. For example, the child might favor one parent for playing, but prefer the other if they become scared. I think Mitsuki simply was the more important object of attachment in this case (this can be a result of having more skin-to-skin contact in the first months, or Masaru could for example have been working a lot of the time). Izuku on the other hand became securely attached to his mother Inko, as I think Inko is very emotional and open as a person. While the scene where Izuku cries about not having a quirk comes when he is about 4 years old, I still think this shows clearly that he seeks comfort in his mother. So, a little TL;DR before the next point: Katsuki was an ‘extroverted’ baby, who experienced a lot of emotional rejection from his mother very early on, which made him suppress his needs -- perhaps unconsciously starting to share his mother’s view on emotionality itself (and his own need for help at times) as weakness. Erikson’s life stages and Piaget’s cognitive development Another model I’ll be using is Erikson’s life stages as well as a theory by Piaget. We’ve passed the first life stage -- infant (0 - 1,5 years). This is where Erikson means that the child will develop a basic way of relating to the world: positive (the world is a place where my needs are met) or negative (the world is a place where I feel alone). Right before starting kindergarten I think Katsuki had developed the negative view, even though he was an ‘extroverted’ baby, as a result of his attachment style. - Izuku, on the other hand, developed the positive one. This meant he had a fundamental sense of hope for the world, which is very important later in life. The second stage -- toddler (1,5 - 3 years). Starting kindergarten is an extremely important step in Katsuki’s development. I think he would’ve been completely different without it -- I really can’t stress this enough. Avoidant-attached children will have to fulfill their needs somehow -- usually through validation from sources beside the object of attachment. ‘Avoidants’ can become narcissistic and overly confident, all as a means to protect themselves. This is exactly what happened with Katsuki, let me explain: As I’ve already explained, I think he was born with both extroverted qualities and an affinity for learning new things. His innate temperament was also perseverance. His avoidant attachment meant that it was seemingly very easy for him to be separated from his mother to go to kindergarten, although at the start, his negative view of the world might’ve made him cold/closed off. The kindergarten personnel catered to him, though. Through a lot of positive reinforcement (to which he is especially sensitive as of his extroversion), attention, and frequent intelligence-related challenges (such as new and complicated games, learning to read, etc) Katsuki developed a more positive outlook. According to Erikson, if one stage of life doesn’t “succeed”, it can be recuperated later, which I believe is what happened here. Where I think the kindergarten fell short however is with too much praise, or very easily letting Katsuki off the hook. I believe they saw very much potential in Katsuki from a young age -- perhaps because of this they were too eager to inforce how amazing they thought he was. Often times, we think that anger should be “released” and not repressed. We should get it out of our system, so to speak. However -- counter-intuitively -- we shouldn’t actually do this. Borrowing from the cognitive approach to psychology, the more often we think a certain thought or behave in a certain way, the stronger that mental connection becomes. I think Katsuki, because of his avoidant attachment, might’ve acted really aggressively as a child too. Instead of giving him strategies to cope with his anger the kindergarten teachers probably encouraged him to “release” it, which just made this cognitive scheme easier to access. Thus more likely to be activated again. Children who feel that their opinions and ideas are interesting and valuable will become more sociable, and take more charge, while children with overprotective carers will start doubting their own abilities. Where Mitsuki wasn’t able to do right, the kindergarten picked up the slack and followed Katsuki’s whims to encourage him. He probably developed really quickly, which probably stunned the teachers and carers. The adults’ attention fueled his confidence and ego, and this drew other children to him, which meant more attention.

According to Bandura and Skinner, both real consequences, imagined ones, and reinforcement dictate personality as well as social interactions. Sometimes though, something called “observational learning” occurs, in which no reinforcement is needed. A child often learns behavior by imitating something someone else does, and I’m not excluding this as a possibility to explain Katsuki’s bias/bigotry against quirkless people. Of course, cognitive bias also plays a major part here. As humans, we are wired to look for details which inforce our worldview.

Bandura’s model of reciprocal determinism. The individual and the environment affect each other mutually. This is part both of how Katsuki grows egotistical, and also his disdain for Izuku. Another important factor of personality is expectation. If an individual expects to be able to change the environment, they are more likely to attempt to do this. Without kindergarten intervention I believe Katsuki would have become a pessimistic, unmotivated person. Third stage (3 - 5 years) By this point Katsuki had already replaced his emotional needs and attachment to his mother with attention and admiration from his kindergarten peers/teachers (feeling superior to others). During this stage the child is supposed to develop a sort of pride of their own abilities. Katsuki was already an independent child (also because of being an ‘avoidant’), but this is where it might’ve went a little overboard. The development of his quirk was, as we all know, a turning point in both Katsuki’s view of himself/the world and his relationship to Izuku. This is mainly because of the quirk development. I’ve already stated that the kindergarten let too much slide -- the bullying of Izuku started even before the quirk development -- but now that becomes more important, as Katsuki was now capable of doing a lot more damage. Developing the quirk solidified Katsuki’s inflated ego -- now he was sure that he was the most awesome kid alive. It also solidified Izuku’s worthlessness to him (of course, if Izuku wasn’t useless, surely he should’ve developed a good quirk too?), which is how “Deku” came to be. At the same time, Izuku “needed help with everything”, but he was also really helpful towards others. He was sensitive, emotional, but still brave -- someone like that was worrying to Katsuki even back then. Katsuki -- an ‘avoidant’ -- repressed his needs, while Izuku indulged in them, openly showing this ‘weakness’. This is where Piaget’s theory comes in. According to the theory, people develop “schemata” and “concepts” which are cognitive structures.

1. A schema is a mental representation which covers a range of behaviors, e.g.: a child learns to pick up a bottle. It learns that it can pick up other things too, so the action of picking something up becomes a schema. 2. A concept is a mental structure which relates to the environment. A concept of an object entails for example what that object does, what it’s used for, and its relation to other objects. Children develop concepts and schemata very early on, and after that there are two processes which occur heavily in the first few years, and then continue throughout life: 1. Assimilation -- new information is modified to fit existing schemata/concepts. For example, a child making engine sounds while playing with a block of wood has assimilated the block into their concept of a car.

2. Accommodation -- the new information can’t fit into existing schemata/concepts, so new ones have to be made. This is part of changing worldviews -- let’s say a little boy only has two categories for animals: birds and fish. But then he sees a dog. If he says “that’s a fish”, he has assimilated the new information, but if he makes up a whole new category of animals, then he has accommodated the new information. There are periods of life in which a child will assimilate more than it accommodates (and vice versa). Piaget called these periods “cognitive equilibrium”. The counterpart is “disequilibrium”. This might be part of something which happens during the first few years of life -- there is an explosion of neurons, brain cells, during this time. When the accommodation has occurred, the child will go back to assimilating. Katsuki developed a lot during kindergarten, and therefore created lots of new concepts and schemata. For example, “I am awesome and everyone else is not”, is a cognitive scheme which enables one to enact their superiority over others. “Deku is useless and I can hit him” is another such concept. However, ‘Deku’s uselessness’ is something Katsuki came up with as a defense mechanism -- as stated before, Izuku indulged in (normal) behavior which Katsuki saw as weakness. But, as any child, he still experienced anxieties and wanted affection. This went against his conviction that sensitivity was weakness, so Katsuki projected all these needs onto Izuku. Punishing Izuku then became a way of punishing himself for the things he wanted. This worked for a while, but then Katsuki became aware of the fact that Izuku was brave enough to go against him, and not only that, but look down on him enough to assume he could need help. He, the most awesome person ever.

This could mean two things.

Sensitivity is not weakness, and it’s not wrong to want it

Katsuki is still so weak that even people like Izuku are a threat

Accommodation is a more difficult process than assimilation, so Katsuki avoided changing his view of sensitivity, which was so deeply ingrained, by adopting the second possibility. But this was scary, and incredibly disturbing to Katsuki, which meant the hostility towards Izuku especially grew. So this is when the bullying picked up a bit. Stage four -- 6 - 12 years During this stage most children begin going to school, the stakes and expectations are higher, etc. I believe Katsuki thrived in a school environment too, with steadily increasing levels of challenge. This is also when both Katsuki’s and Izuku’s admiration for All Might increased, for different reasons. In Katsuki’s eyes, All Might was so strong he always won no matter what, which enabled him to get in more fights. Winning these fights fueled his ego, and he began believing he could surpass All Might. Stage five -- 13 - 18 years Ooh, here’s when it gets juicy. I believe the bullying might not have been too intense back in stage 4. Erikson defined this stage as “identity against role diffusion”. During their teen years, most people begin identifying all the different sorts of roles they have in life, which might cause some anxiety. That’s why a lot of teenagers are experimenting with their identity, and go through what adults often disregard as “phases”. This searching is very important however, because every person needs to have a secure sense of “this is me” to be mentally healthy. We need to believe there’s a core in our identity, which will stay the same even if we or our surroundings change. Middle school Katsuki and Izuku are both 14 when the series starts. Katsuki is still delusional, prideful, and narcissistic. His teachers think he is powerful enough that it’s inevitable he will go on to UA, which only confirms his view of himself. Right now he tries to act unbothered, but Katsuki is painfully aware of the fact that Izuku hasn’t abandoned the dream to be a hero, even though he is quirkless. All of Katsuki’s intimidation tactics -- blowing up the notebook, for example -- are all desperate attempts to discourage Izuku from even trying, because Katsuki is still scared and disturbed by Izuku in general. Perhaps more so than usual, because I think Katsuki’s trying to find his identity right now as well, especially since it’s time to apply to high school. “Leaving Izuku behind” might be the most symbolic thing Katsuki can think of. He feels as though he’s been stuck with Izuku for years, and wants to hammer home the differences between them, defining his own identity in the process. Still, Izuku is going to apply to UA. I know Katsuki looks pretty unbothered while telling Izuku to take a swan dive off the roof, but I’m 100% certain he’s absolutely shaking inside. It really is a last resort type of thing. Which doesn’t make it alright, of course, but I think it’s important to keep in mind that Katsuki by this point is a vulnerable young teen, unconsciously terrified of going into the world without knowing exactly who he is. Izuku’s response to this bullying and especially the swan-dive line are interesting to me. He doesn’t get depressed, instead he thinks to himself that the idiot Kacchan would have instigated a suicide if he really went through it. This is partly why I think Izuku is securely attached to his mom, even if he now doesn’t approach her with all his problems. He developed a strong sense of hope for the world, more on that in a bit. The Sludge Villain incident is a big stepping stone for both Katsuki and Izuku. We see Izuku genuinely almost give everything up after meeting All Might, and still, even as he saw someone who had bullied him, he still rushed in without a second thought as soon as that person seemed to need help. And in reality, Katsuki was asking for help. You can’t say this isn’t the face of someone who needs saving.

Of course, Katsuki catches up with Izuku just after the incident, telling him “I didn't need you to save me!”, the works.

He’s struggling really hard here to assimilate the new information. He doesn’t want to accept it. When he fell into the creek back as a child, I don’t think he actually needed any help, he probably would’ve been fine. The problem then was Izuku thinking he needed help, which he equated to being looked down upon. In this moment, the problem is that Katsuki really needed the help. Had Izuku not been there, not spurred All Might into action, Katsuki might very well have suffocated. And he knows this, he’s a smart kid. That’s why his reaction is so extreme this time. Accepting that he could’ve died if Izuku wasn’t there means, again, that there are two possibilities to Katsuki:

1. He is weak and needs Izuku’s help of all people 2. He has been wrong about sensitivity all along Both of these mean he has been wrong, both are unacceptable to him. But I think the first one, at least unconsciously, does become its own schemata. Some time after the incident Katsuki stays silent when it’s again noted that Izuku is applying for UA. On the first day there, he only tells Izuku to get out of his way, but doesn’t mock or question his presence. Izuku even comments that “ever since that day, he stopped tormenting me.” They even sit beside each other without any real problems. I think this again is due to two things: 1. Katsuki is hyper-focused on his real goals right then, he needs to do really well 2. He has accepted “Deku is applying for UA” as a new schemata, which is easier to swallow than accepting either the sensitivity or needing help thing.

High school -- UA There’s of course a minor hitch once Katsuki realises Izuku was accepted, but I think that’s fairly standard. What I think is more important for Katsuki is the fact that entering UA means coming into contact with other people his age who are more advanced than he would’ve ever thought. He’s been so far up that nobody could catch up to him for years, but suddenly, other people are merely steps away if not on the same level. The fact that other people are so close to surpassing him, and seeing Izuku has somehow developed a powerful quirk, opens the gate to the possibility that Izuku might surpass him too. As many have noticed, Katsuki is much more subdued since starting at UA. I think he’s beginning to warm up to other people (they’re not scared of him, he can’t dominate them like that). But I think his anxiety has slowly been growing, leading to the outburst/fight at Ground Beta, with All Might’s retirement as a final straw. I want to analyse him further (and even more how he’s affected by avoidant attachment!!!), but this will have to do for now. Please let me know what you thought, if you agree, if you’d like more, etc. It’s really encouraging. Have a nice day!

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1/ Okay so my younger brother got diagnosed with autism when he was 2 and I was 7 years old and everything was great. But over the years more and more things that I would consider rational and relatable behaviour in my brother, others would consider very obvious autistic traits. And then I came across some studies saying that siblings of autistic people tend to have autistic traits and I was like "this makes a lot of sense" and didn't think much of it.

2/ Recently, I have come to the conclusion that my older also undiagnosed brother definitely has autism. He 100% agrees even if he doesn’t like saying he does because he spent years conditioning himself out of as many traits as possible in order to fit it. In the last week, upon much reflection, I’ve come to further realise that as a girl who was brought up with very strict gender roles and obviously will not present with the same behaviour as my other two brothers.

3/ Especially when it terms of socialising because the only reason why the idea that I was autistic was never even in the realm of possibility is that I am a goddamn psychologist. My job relies on my being good at picking up social nuance and without tooting my own horn I like to think, and have been reliably informed, that I’m pretty good at it. Except as a psychologist, I know that that’s not necessarily how autism works. So now I’m at a loss. I don’t want to try to get a diagnosis.

4/ I don’t think I need formal services or supports or stuff like that. More importantly, I don’t want to see myself or have others see me through an autism lens. I want my quirks to be quirks unique to me and not another yes on a diagnostic checklist. Apart from my older brother, no one has ever brought up the fact that I (we) may be on the spectrum as well and I want to keep it that way. I’m a lot of things that aren’t typical especially where I’m living.

5/ It’s already difficult moving through the world; I don’t want to add to that. But I also desperately want to be told that I’m right because it would explain so much of my life and maybe a diagnosis would enhance the way I see my life and not diminish it. But also how does an adult go about getting a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosis? Talking to my parents about this isn’t really a possibility, if it was I wouldn’t be here. (Sorry about the length, didn’t think it would be this long).

6/ Now just realised that maybe your INTJ blog wasn’t the best place to send these asks? Maybe your mommy problems blog??? I’ve just followed you for a long time and I felt that you were the best person who’s not in my personal life to ask at 03:00 in the morning. Ooooh I regret everything about this now.

Just an FYI, you can always PM me off anonymous. If you don’t want a public response you can just say so, and I’ll respond privately. Bypasses the “oops wrong blog” thing. But seriously, don’t worry about it.

There are a couple of quizzes available online, though I don’t know if you believe in those. Many people find them helpful, and people with a formal diagnosis do score high on these things.

Personally, I don’t find validation a good enough reason to seek a professional diagnosis. It’s really expensive, and it can be potentially harmful in stuff like custody/CPS cases to have that kind of thing on file. You could always try having another psychologist buddy give you an informal diagnosis, but I don’t know if they’d be willing to do that, and they’d need to be familiar with all the traits of an adult female autistic, which most people are not.

As one therapist told me, even if you don’t have enough traits to qualify as autistic yourself, they’re still there and they’re still valid. They don’t cease to exist because you lack a diagnosis, or because you don’t have enough. It was really important for me to hear, and I hope you take it to heart as well.

It definitely runs in families. I can’t tell you how stupid I feel as someone who breeds animals, and totally understands that personality traits are heritable, yet I totally dismissed a lot of my own quirks as environmental. A lot of this was due to not having the names for things like Sensory Processing Disorder or Social Anxiety, but I totally expected NT kids despite my husband and I having weird-ass brains. I mean:

Him: ADHD, Anxiety, Depression

Me: Autism (probably), Anxiety, SPD

Kid 1: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD (possible, we will find out once we start medicating the rest)

Kid 2: Autism, SPD

Kid 3: Quirky with a speech delay. School says autism and the psychologist says no. So we’ll see.

Going further up the family tree, my sister is bipolar, as was my grandmother. My husband’s mom has anxiety, and some other shit (her mom was also whacky). My cousin’s kid appears to have SPD. Several family members have told me they think my other grandma might have had ADHD. So yeah, there is ND all over the family tree. It pisses me off so much when people go on about the autism “epidemic,” because all you have to do is look back through history and it’s everywhere. There are autism spikes in areas where certain industries are prevalent (like tech), because when a couple engineers with autistic traits marry, they will have autistic kids.

Here are some links for you.

Autism Spectrum Quotient.

Aspie Quiz

Tony Attwood - Aspergers in Girls (video, I have not seen but it’s supposed to be pretty accurate)

Whether or not you seek a diagnosis is up to you, but if you don’t, like a lot of us you’re going to be torn on the issue for a while. Remember that you know your brain best. You’ve just got to make peace with yourself. A diagnosis does not change who you are.

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evoldir · 2 years ago

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penelopehui · 3 years ago

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Higher levels of optimism may lead to increased longevity in women

The effects of persistent optimism may extend beyond mental well-being and be comparable to the benefits of exercise.

Study results showed optimism was linked with increased longevity among women from different racial backgrounds.

Findings could have practical implications as many women reported poor mental health throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Being optimistic may be one of many popular personality traits and can play a big role in managing certain mental health conditions.

Now, new research indicates optimism is not only good for individuals’ mental well-being, but is also associated with a longer lifespan among women across racial and ethnic groups.

Researchers, which included experts from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston University School of Medicine, found higher optimism was linked with a greater likelihood of reaching “exceptional longevity” overall.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, research has documented declining mental health among working women, and particularly women of color. Women are also more likely than men to experience depression and bipolar disorder, while these conditions can affect women in different ways.

Although previous studies have looked into the association between optimism, healthy aging and longevity, these were carried out among majority-white populations, authors explained.

They also noted that although being optimistic is partly heritable, writing exercises and cognitive-behavioral strategies can help individuals modify their own optimism levels.

“This work, in conjunction with findings linking optimism to a range of outcomes including physical health suggest optimism may be a novel target for intervention to improve health,” authors wrote.

For the current study, a total of 159,255 participants of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) provided information on their optimism levels, while researchers collected health and demographic information. The WHI began in 1992 and concluded in 2005, although extension studies have continued in the years since.

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Exceptional longevity was defined as reaching age 90 or over. According to the CDC, average female life expectancy in the United States in 2020 was 80.5 years.

Over half of the women in the entire cohort achieved exceptional longevity (53%) and those expressing the highest levels of optimism were more likely to reach this goal.

When compared with those reporting the lowest levels of optimism, women who were the most optimistic had a 5.4 percent longer lifespan.

Among non-Hispanic white women, this percentage dropped to 5.1 percent and among Asian women, to 1.5 percent. However, the percentage rose to 7.6 percent among Black women and remained the same among Hispanic/Latina women.

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Lifestyle- related factors such as smoking status, diet, and physical activity had a modest effect on the relationship between optimism and lifespan.

“While some evidence suggests optimism itself is patterned by some social structural factors, meaningful associations between optimism and health remain even after robust adjustment for these factors and when examined separately across race and ethnic groups,” authors wrote.

For the full sample, lifestyle factors mediated the association between lifespan and optimism for 24 percent of participants. Among Asian women, lifestyle had the greatest mediating effect at 43 percent, compared with 25 percent of non-Hispanic white women, 10 percent of Black women and 24 percent of Hispanic/Latina women.

Authors noted more research is needed to determine whether this link is also present among women who live shorter lives.

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chiliwriting · 7 years ago

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Serious and Mysterious

One of the most hotly debated issues in human sciences is the nature versus nurture debate. Focusing on psychology, researchers of the field have long investigated the role of genes and heritability on personality traits and intelligence as a behavior. For many years twin studies and the study of behavioral genetics, have provided us with useful knowledge and evidence on the ways genetics influence certain behaviors, supporting both parts of the debate. This time I decided that I should present more seriously a topic, providing evidence from twin studies on heritability of personality traits and intelligence. To start with, it is important to define terms that will be used frequently. Behavioral genetics is the study trying to understand how environmental factors and genetics contribute to the manifestation of certain behaviors (Fuller, 1960). In other words, researching the relationship between external stimuli and genetic factors that cause someone to behave in a specific way. Furthermore, heritability refers to a specific phenotype relative to a time, place and environment. It is a parameter of a population, which indicates its genetic variation. Explaining this further, individuals inherit tendencies to express specific traits and behaviors, which may then be activated under specific circumstances. For example, Pedersen et al (1992) showed that general cognitive ability is heritable by 80% because genetic influence on cognitive ability in adults is greater than 50% found in early life. Focusing on heritability of personality traits, references on personality in the essay are based on the definition by Larsen and Buss (2014). They defined personality as the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that allows them interact with and adapt to their social surrounding and general environment .One important twin study indicating that individual personality differences rely on genetic factors up to a certain extent is Vukasovik and Bratko study (2015). The researchers conducted a metanalysis to estimate the intraclass correlation of family resemblance for personality between different family members. This study shows that there is a genetic effect underlying individual differences in personality because correlations for Twins reared apart and together. Secondly, correlations between twins raised together and apart were very similar, indicating that the environment has little contribution to similarities of personality. Hence, sharing the same family environment does not contribute to similarities of twins. It should be noted however that people change and adapt according to their environment. This was supported with the case of Judy with BII (Blood-Injury-Infection) phobia. Judy had a genetic predisposition from her family with BII phobia, which she expressed when she received external stimuli from her environment through a traumatic experience that led her to adapt and manifest this behavior.

Additionally, twin studies have also provided us with evidence on heritability of intelligence. Primarily, Carroll (1993) defined intelligence as “mental abilities that permit recognition, learning, memorizing and the ability to reason about particular forms of information”. One of the most significant twin studies showing that personality traits and mostly intelligence is up to an extent heritable is Bouchard et al Minnesota study (1990). The aim was to investigate the role of genes in intelligence using 100 pairs of twins from a variety of cultural background. The participants went through a standardized intelligence test (WAIS scale) to measure IQ. The study showed that a number of personality traits were substantially affected by genes with >50% of variability. Moreover, it showed that genetic factors account for 70% of the variance in IQ with the rest 30% lying on epigenetic factors that influence such behaviors. However, it is important to say that the study suffers from certain limitations as correlations do not establish a cause-effect relationship and there is no control of environmental factors. Hence, the results could be different if environmental factors were controlled. Although there is evidence supporting that personality traits and intelligence can be heritable up to a certain extent, we should also bear in mind that people adapt to their environments accordingly, in order to survive. It is challenging to generalize from twin studies because most of the times they are restricted in numbers or in a specific population. Scar and Weinberg conducted a Twin adoption study which indicated that instead of focusing on either parts of the debate, researchers should focus on an interactionist approach, meaning the extend one influences the other (environment- genetics). So next time you’re wondering why you are so different from your brother/sister or... smarter, take 10 minutes and research on heritability and genetics.

Talk to you later, xx! -Aggelina Tsilimpari-

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translesbiantheo · 7 years ago

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When the Rachel Dolezal fiasco first came to light, someone I follow made a really strong case that a large part of why her whole “I’m transracial its like being transgender” thing was as successful a sell as it was was that the mainstream white theory of transness and gender sucked.

The logic of white gender theory (based around identity and the notion that no-one would choose to join an oppressed group) totally did imply that transracial could mean what Dolezal twisted it to mean*.

The person writing those posts talked about the historical context of both gender and race as part of the colonial project, that race is an (socially constructed) heritable trait where as white binary gender was enforced on individuals over the myriad pre-existing constructions of gender. With this context we can see that claiming someone else’s race is falsely claiming the historical familial trauma. Identifying out of your personally assigned gender on the other hand is refusing to conform of an imperialist white supremacist social construct.

Since then whenever a white cis person has asked me to describe gender or why transness makes sense I’ve always tried to give that context. It’s more work than just being like “sex is between your legs and gender’s between your ear uwu” but it pays off as being a solid foundation for their understanding of gender.

Anyway where I’m going with all this is that I was thinking about how gender is enforced, and how really gender *is* that enforcement (with the ever present goal in mind of controlling non-white peoples to better suit imperialist capital). Resistance to gender conformity of any form, is punished because that is all gender is. That’s why there’s almost no resistance to gender changing its rules or having inconsistent rules (like coding now belonging to men or women being required to both wear and not wear makeup.

The bigger the rejection of gender the worse the punishment required, that’s why you get white guys saying they’re straight while they suck their friend’s dudely cock. Sucking cock as a man isn’t intrinsically a rejection of gender so claiming straightness while doing it is a way of acknowledging you’re not trying to break the rules you’d just like the rules to be a little different. (Of course this only really works when you’re in a position to be listened to, which is why most of the guys pulling this stunt are white).

The white narrative of transness is a similar appeal. “I’m not rejecting gender, but I’d like to argue that gender is in my head.”. That narrative is acceptable because it can still promise all the goals of gender, it leads to people claiming that you can do an fMRI to detect gender or otherwise seeking out a True Biological Origin of Gender. That’s why people who are less inherently threatened by gender (white trans people yes but especially white cis people) jump onto it, and why it’s so important that we reject it.

*transracial is a real term that applies to non-white adoptees with white adoptive parents

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valeriacastaneda · 4 years ago

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Chris wants to start working on our next video but I feel like my inspiration has been lacking. I probably should’ve taken my adderall today but whatever. It’ll come to me. I want to talk about the link between bipolar, schizophrenia (psychosis) and creativity

There are positive schizotypal traits in bipolar disorder such as: increased sociability, strong ambition, a desire for recognition by others,

Tighter link between bipolar disorder and creativity than schizophrenia

Negative symptoms in schizophrenia may explain poor performance of schizophrenia patients- high IQ and cognitive flexibility may lead to enhanced creativity, whereas as cognitive deficits present in full blown illness.

Verbal divergent thinking linked to creativity in writers/scientists and correlated with a higher IQ than figuratively divergent thinking in musicians and artists.

I hope Dacota doesn’t get pissed off that I’d rather sit on my iPad typing than be watching some stupid tv show right now. I need to DO SOMETHING. I can’t just chill sometimes and it irks the fuck out of me. Like I really came over to watch tv all the time and he’s gonna play Overwatch? I could’ve stayed home and did this much more comfortably.

I’m probably gonna go back home tonight cos I don’t want to do this. I don’t know if there’s something wrong with me, I need some space and to figure out what I want. Maybe I’d be happier if I was alone, maybe I’m not meant to be with anyone cos I’m not consistent enough. Maybe the best i can do is have friends and my family cos they understand and consider my needs more. I feel like I’m constantly feeling selfish for feeling anything in this relationship. Maybe I am selfish cos “I” is my favorite word and maybe the only feelings I do care about are only my own but that’s cos i neglect them so much for other people.

I feel like I’m inept and I don’t belong to anyone. I’m broken, human and sad.

Only 8% of those with bipolar spectrum disorder could be considered highly creative.

Bipolar and creative individuals have higher neuroticism, extraversion, and openness personality scores compared with noncreative controls. Openness to experience is a central feature of creativity. Openness is heritable in bipolar families. Creatives tend toward divergent thinking.

Hallmark symptom of mania is increased word production and loose associations: cognitive disinhibition.

A positive mood provides provides a significant cognitive advantage in performance of divergent thinking task whereas negative mood inhibits the process.

Maybe Dacota likes being negative too much. I’m not sure but he be negative as fuck sometimes and instead of communicating he retreats and starts acting like a bitch. I don’t chase anyone so it’s kinda an issue.

https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/452416

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2whatcom-blog · 6 years ago

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How Your Genetic Profile Can Predict Your Probabilities of Being Overweight

The key as to whether or not you are in danger for weight problems may very well be partially locked into your genes at start. Now, a workforce of researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Basic Hospital, and Harvard Medical College has developed a genome screening-based "polygenic score" to assist quantify that future weight problems threat. The scientists analyzed 2.1 million sections of the human genome associated to physique weight ("polygenic" actually means "many genes") and ran this by a just lately developed laptop algorithm. They first validated after which examined it towards the burden information from 119,000 people and 288,000 people, respectively. The researchers discovered that individuals who scored within the high 10 % of markers for genetic weight problems threat have been 25 occasions as prone to be severely overweight as those that scored within the lowest 10 %. That amounted to a distinction of just about 30 kilos on common. Folks on this high-risk group additionally had a 28 % greater threat for coronary artery illness, a 72 % greater threat for diabetes, a 38 % greater threat for hypertension, and a 34 % elevated threat for coronary heart failure.

A promising improvement

So, are we prepared to search out out our youngsters' weight problems threat by a blood take a look at? Not fairly, the research authors say. "A high polygenic score doesn't necessarily mean someone is fated to become obese," Dr. Sekar Kathiresan, a research co-author and director of the heart problems initiative on the Broad Institute and a professor of drugs at Harvard Medical College, stated in a press launch. "DNA is not destiny. We know that a healthy lifestyle can offset a genetic predisposition, although those with a high genetic risk likely have to work much harder to maintain a normal weight," he stated. In different phrases, this polygenic scoring clarifies and improves upon the concept that weight problems threat is partially genetic and never merely a matter of willpower. It might additionally present alternatives for early intervention. "Given that the weight trajectories of individuals... start to diverge in early childhood, such interventions may have maximal effect when employed early in life," the researchers write of their research.

Limitations of genetic scoring

Some researchers are extra vital of the present limits of genetic testing and its usefulness to most of the people. "Obesity is partly genetic, partly due to lifestyle. Heritability is around 50 percent," Ruth Loos, PhD, director of the Genetics of Weight problems and Associated Metabolic Traits Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, advised Healthline. "But the other 50 percent is because people have different lifestyles, different diets, different physical activity levels, and so on," she added. "So, if you have a genetic score -- and even if it was a perfect genetic score -- you still only capture half of people's genetic susceptibility. You still cannot accurately predict future obesity because you don't capture the lifestyle part." Almost about this research, she says, the rating is way from good or predictive. She factors out that among the many high 10 % of highest polygenic scores within the research, 58 of 371 developed extreme weight problems. That also left 313 who did not. Equally, there have been 166 individuals within the center 80 % who did develop weight problems, regardless of not having the best variety of threat elements. "So you can wonder, is it ethical to scare people when they're actually not developing obesity?" she stated. The researchers themselves be aware this polygenic rating system is an enchancment on different fashions that account for much fewer genetic variants of their paper, however they stated it is from full. Whereas they envision a future the place this polygenic scoring is beneficial for assessing the chance of quite a lot of illnesses, they name for cautious research of exactly these outliers "who maintain normal weight despite an unfavorable score or develop severe obesity despite a favorable score." As a substitute, they hope this analysis furthers "a clear understanding of the genetic predisposition to obesity may help to de-stigmatize obesity among patients, their healthcare providers, and the general public." "We are in the early days of identifying how we can best inform and empower patients to overcome health risks in their genetic background," Dr. Amit V. Khera, the lead research creator, clinician, and member of the analysis college within the Massachusetts Basic Hospital Heart for Genomic Drugs, stated within the press launch. "We are incredibly excited about the potential to improve health outcomes."

Prediction you should utilize right now

For now, higher predictive measures of future weight problems might exist already. Loos says her personal calculations discovered that household historical past continues to be a greater predictor of future weight problems than genetic testing -- albeit additionally an imperfect one. That is as a result of household historical past tells a narrative each about an individual's genetics in addition to their setting and tradition. That's, either side of the coin. "Family history captures genes but also lifestyle, family environment, and how you raise your children, which has a big effect on future risk," she stated. "Also the socioeconomic environment. Individuals with less money less money to spend on health food." The advantage of early prediction is that it is likely to be extra empowering than discovering out your markers of genetic threat as an grownup. "Obesity is very different from cancer," she stated. "It's sort of looming in the future. You sort of feel you're in control (with other diseases) because it's not there yet. With obesity, by your 20s or 30s, you're typically in it or not in it."

Actions to move off weight problems

Whether or not it is a genetic rating or a household workup, the query stays: What can individuals do to stave off weight problems in the event that they fall right into a high-risk group? There's the person aspect: Attempt to eat wholesome, train, and preserve acceptable every day caloric consumption. Then there's the structural aspect, which could require a extra complete strategy. That, Loos says, is harder to determine. "We need societal measures," she stated. "We need a food industry that is genuine about trying to make people eat healthy foods, about offering healthy goods at the right price." Read the full article

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