I don't think these phobias are probably rooted in as much reason as ascribed in the article. We have instinctive emotional reactions to things like bugs. When an adult asks us for a reason, we find a pattern and supply it because it seems to make grownups happy.
Crazy Conclusions in Early Childhood
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#72One of my early memories was of a very big statue that was standing on a cube that was almost the same size as me. I must have been less than four, because we moved to a different place after that. Years later I visited the same spot, the cube was about 50 centimeters high.
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#73I remember as a child being extremely puzzled as to how glass worked. I could not understand how something solid could be transparent. I had seen that when things moved quickly they seemed to become translucent so I came to the conclusion that glass was made up of tiny cogs, all moving extremely quickly. It never made complete sense though. I must have driven my parents insane with my constant questions of how glass…
isn't empty space made up of virtual particles aka particles with a life time so minute it's basically not there ? :)
The atmosphere on Earth has stable particles -- they have a lifetime similar to other matter on Earth. But their density is so low that light passes through them mostly undisturbed.
Empty space outside of planetary atmosphere is a void, there's "no" particles there (some Hydrogen and Helium and radiation).
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#74That a 16-year old remembers such detail about age 3 seems… unusual. I don’t mean a memory here or there; this child remembers very specific experiences and the feelings he had about them when he was almost pre-verbal. Seems almost incredible.
The child in the article seems especially unique in several ways.
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#75I sort of wonder if the crazy conclusions are on the parents side or the kids side..
Pretty much agree, like the original post, I can't see how her son remembered all these irrational things they thought when they were 2 years old.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
A 3 year old can remember something at 16 if they regularly recall it. It gets refreshed like DRAM. I do this with my kids for special memories. They can remember everything they did at LEGOLAND the day after. So I have them tell me about it, regularly, and they remember it permanently.
That sounds like memorizing a storytelling rather than what happened.
Yes, but that’s how memory works (which is why it’s so fallible). There aren’t any memories that are stored like a video file.
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#77Around age 7 my daughter showed ocd like behavior (incessant scratching her arms) when she realized loosing connection during chrome casting meant the device kept playing. We had to unplug the chromecast device and inspect it, lying there dead and silent on the table, to settle her down. Same thing when our pc was updating, saying “please do turn off computer” and then _proceeding to reboot on its own_ at end of upda…
To be fair, many people think it's not OK for Google to be listening, and you should be careful not to accustom your daughter to tech surveillance.
Sure, but if she has generalized anxiety, adding more to the plate in the form of “oh, also Google wants to throw you in prison eventually” is just not worth it right now :)
I’m exaggerating for effect, because kids do
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#78Around age 7 my daughter showed ocd like behavior (incessant scratching her arms) when she realized loosing connection during chrome casting meant the device kept playing. We had to unplug the chromecast device and inspect it, lying there dead and silent on the table, to settle her down. Same thing when our pc was updating, saying “please do turn off computer” and then _proceeding to reboot on its own_ at end of upda…
I consider these highly desirable behaviors in the unique future event of dystopia.
In general, paranoia is a highly effective deterrent to doing an undesirable behavior, because the paranoid really don't cheat. Whereas if you have to do it because it's your job, or the law? Eh.
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Even weirder is how glass is partially reflective. What mechanism lets some light through but sends other light off in such a regular ordered way?
Crystals are by definition ordered by a very regular pattern. I don't fully understand the mechanism, but I'm not surprised that it exists.
Glass is not a crystal. Not sure what I was thinking. No idea why its surface is reflective.
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I felt the same way. I never buy it when people say they remember anything when they were two. I have 5 kids, one is only 2, but none of the other 4 remember anything from when they were two. I guess people can be different but I have a hard time believing it.
I remember how a ladybug tasted because I crushed one with my finger and put it in my mouth. Don't know the exact age but I were as old as children are when they do those things.
I guess your memory would describe it approximately as "not great", unless it had either been cause for panic, or an unreasonable desire for more of that polkadotted hotbod.