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Sunflower Labs https://www.sunflower-labs.com/ and Ring will have products for you. The latter is only $250 and you can stick a drone at home you can look through. I think you could also just stick one of the Amazon Echo Shows that has Drop-in or Auto-Answer or whatever (the Google Nests don't, disappointingly).
you can stick a drone at home you can look through. Is the Amazon home drone a real product, or was that just a CGI demo?
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I have experienced a (partial) failure of this. On the takeoff roll, there’s a call out for “airspeed alive”. One day after leaving the airplane parked outside for a long weekend, I dutifully looked at a dead airspeed indicator and called out “airspeed alive” followed shortly by realizing the mistake and aborting the takeoff, but there’s a danger of looking and “seeing” what’s expected but not actually there.
This reminds me of some of my… I guess I should call them “non-conscious automated vocalisations”. For a while I used to greet people with the greeting they’ve just given me: they say “hello”, I also say “hello”, they say “good morning”, I say “good morning”. Fine until my sister greeted me with “happy birthday”, though I did at least notice and stop myself after one syllable. More seriously was when I was following…
When I'm not able to stop myself I have been forced to say, "happy birthday ... to me". Others must think this silly reply means it's more like too many birthdays.
I personally have problems with doors, and stuff that should be locked. I can never be sure I locked properly. Totally did backtrack unreasonable distances just to check if I had closed the door. It's all fine when it's my door. Worst case scenario, I get robbed. However it's more of a problem when it's someone else's door. Worst case scenario, they get robbed, and that's a different story. Or pets get out... Obvious…
I have a weirder version of this problem that's less debilitating but annoys people who live with me -- if I pass by a door I will automatically lock it with no memory of having done so, even seconds after. Like kleptomania but for locking doors. If I'm within five feet of a door it's as if a magic force emanates from my body to lock it as far as my own awareness is concerned. One of my roommates in college was carry…
Which is great, except for the time I got a phone call as I was leaving the car and forgot the keys in the ignition. Gotta stick to the routine for it to work!
The idea that the entire psychiatric community wouldn't be completely on the side of the author is one of the reasons that I have such little faith in their field. The reason being is that the underlying condition could always be worked on after first taking the small, practical steps to dramatically reduce the impact of the problem. I have personally experienced situations like this and it was so frustrating until I…
I’ve had the same problems with regular doctors and medical issues. A lot of my problems turned out to be a milk allergy.
I personally have problems with doors, and stuff that should be locked. I can never be sure I locked properly. Totally did backtrack unreasonable distances just to check if I had closed the door. It's all fine when it's my door. Worst case scenario, I get robbed. However it's more of a problem when it's someone else's door. Worst case scenario, they get robbed, and that's a different story. Or pets get out... Obvious…
A technique I learnt as a kid from my uncle was to mindlessly use physical interaction to “feel” the state of things and learn a habit of doing it all the time. For the example of locking the door, it would be trying to open it and pull/push on the handle right after closing it. This seems to stick far longer in one’s memory.
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Do you remember the name of the psychologist or any info I might use to look him up?
Scott Alexander. He used to post on slatestarcodex.com, but has since moved to astralcodexten.substack.com .
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There's a very helpful method for being confident that you did something right, and while it may not be enough for people with compulsive disorders, it's great for many situations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling I think it works by recruiting more of your body & brain to the task of attending to something. Maybe the anxious could video themselves doing it, and watch it back later.
"Putting the keys in my left pocket" Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm - Samuel L. Jackson's character in Long Kiss Goodnight I also do this for keys, wallet, phone, sunglasses, and have Tile on everything. ADHD = expert mob cleaner: body disposal-division
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Perhaps the call should be "Airspeed $X knots thus alive" to demonstrate that the airspeed is readable.
I like the idea, but X will always be zero, so suffers the same problem.