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Attitudes like yours smack of the smugness and arrogance that I've had to deal with all of my life Take a breath, my friend. I'm not the person who's been keeping you down all these years that you are apparently lashing out at. I responded to your other comment down-thread. My comment was aimed at a normal demographic. You state that you have some undiagnosed mental handicap. If I posted a comment saying how I was ab…
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You're right. And if I made a comment about how well I learned to clap through almost no effort I suppose I'd have one-armed people writing comments to complain. If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense.
There are people with dwarfism, and there are people who are just short. The latter don't have a physical abnormality, but they still aren't as tall as tall people.
The way I'm reading this, you've discovered that yourself and a few of your friends are tall, and now you think the world is divided into tall people and dwarves.
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You're right. And if I made a comment about how well I learned to clap through almost no effort I suppose I'd have one-armed people writing comments to complain. If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense.
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I apologize for any offense and hope things get better for you.
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I'm not sure if you read my comment before becoming offended by it. Your response makes it all about me, but I specifically mentioned other people being surprised by their own memorization capabilities after I asked them to consider that maybe they're more capable of memorizing numbers than they believed. Your comment also says that I memorize through "no effort" when I stated, "almost no effort" which is > "no effor…
> "I'm not sure if you read my comment before becoming offended by it." That post didn't read to me like he was in the slightest bit offended. It's simply making the point that if you view the world through a lens of "you can do anything if you just try" then there's a downside of becoming less compassionate as one might ascribe to laziness what may (more correctly) be ascribed to a genuine physical or mental inabili…
He said that my post was belittling and he was resentful of it.
That seems to be a textbook definition of offended. Please tell me how I misunderstood.
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I'm just replying to tell you I'm not going to reply to you anymore. This has apparently stirred some serious anger in you and there's no point to any further discussion between us. I apologize for any offense and hope things get better for you.
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I'm just replying to tell you I'm not going to reply to you anymore. This has apparently stirred some serious anger in you and there's no point to any further discussion between us. I apologize for any offense and hope things get better for you.
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You're right. And if I made a comment about how well I learned to clap through almost no effort I suppose I'd have one-armed people writing comments to complain. If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense.
> If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense. There are people with dwarfism, and there are people who are just short. The latter don't have a physical abnormality, but they still aren't as tall as tall people. The way I'm reading this, you've discovered that yourself and a few of your friends are tall, and now you think the world is divided into tall people a…
It's more like my friends and I are of average height but discovered that through little effort we can dunk a basketball.
Then a very short dude comes by and says he's vertically handicapped and that I don't know what I'm talking about because he can't dunk a basketball to save his life.
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I'm just replying to tell you I'm not going to reply to you anymore. This has apparently stirred some serious anger in you and there's no point to any further discussion between us. I apologize for any offense and hope things get better for you.
Just FYI, that can also come across as being belittling. I am not being sarcastic and I can see the ambiguity would be confusing, but that seems like a polite way of saying '&!#$ you', I hope you get better. At memorizing?
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> If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense. There are people with dwarfism, and there are people who are just short. The latter don't have a physical abnormality, but they still aren't as tall as tall people. The way I'm reading this, you've discovered that yourself and a few of your friends are tall, and now you think the world is divided into tall people a…
The way I'm reading this, you've discovered that yourself and a few of your friends are tall, and now you think the world is divided into tall people and dwarves. It's more like my friends and I are of average height but discovered that through little effort we can dunk a basketball. Then a very short dude comes by and says he's vertically handicapped and that I don't know what I'm talking about because he can't dunk…
"I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it."
If you want to now adjust that claim and say "some can do it", you better be able to tell us how to distinguish.
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Eh, no mnemonic device? Most people memorize things by simple repetition. If you're implying anyone can have eidetic memory by "removing their limits", I don't buy it. It's something developed at a young age.
If you're implying anyone can have eidetic memory by "removing their limits" What I said is that most people don't try to memorize things because they think that they can't. Most people memorize things by simple repetition Sure, and most people don't try to memorize things because (again) they think that they can't no matter what technique they use. I don't buy it I'm not selling anything. I'm merely passing on my ow…
Fortunately, there's a large body of scientific research that can tell us how many numbers a person can memorize in short term memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional_memory