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    11 days ago

    Yeah but what if the root cause was a genuinely wonky brain? I’ve displayed this kind of behaviour for as long as I can remember - I vividly remember being told off for stealing sweets from my Nan’s stash at the age of like 6 or 7.

    It’s a bizarre thing, but I will say that I’m very fortunate that I’m not into hard drugs or gambling or stuff that truly destroys lives. And even more bizarrely I made a desperate attempt at switching from food ‘addiction’ to cigarettes and alcohol but that never worked. I never managed to get into it, I even tried vaping for fk sake lol.

    I wish someone would do experiments on me, I’m clearly not normal! And perhaps I’m not the only one who feels this way. Brain science still has a long way to go.

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      11 days ago

      Yeah but what if the root cause was a genuinely wonky brain?

      It’s definitely a wonky brain. Please don’t think I’m being rude, it’s as you said

      Brain science still has a long way to go.

      I can’t speculate. Even as the article says, the experts are clueless. Was it an experience you had when you were two or is it a chemical imbalance? Or something we haven’t learned to articulate yet? The only way to find out is to fuck around with our brains until we learn more.

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        11 days ago

        Oh not at all I didn’t think you were rude, on the contrary I thought your reply was nice and gentle.

        I’m absolutely willing to leave my body to science once I die, hoping that it might help this field progress. But for now, I’ll be sniffing my latest acquisitions to get my dopamine high :D