A while back I learned about "aphantasia" and I wonder if that's a real thing. Not that I doubt some folks cannot visualize things. Heck, I can only imagine things in very blurry terms. So what do I g...
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We do like our little boxes, and making everyone fit into them makes things feel neat and organized, but I agree with you that human beings are much more complex and we need to give everyone space to be themselves.
Then again, having names for things allows us to give help to people who need it, like for autism, ADHD and so on. Not everyone has the same needs so we need some kind of classification even if it's imperfect.
But yeah, I ponder the same things sometimes.
We do like our little boxes, and making everyone fit into them makes things feel neat and organized, but I agree with you that human beings are much more complex and we need to give everyone space to be themselves.
Then again, having names for things allows us to give help to people who need it, like for autism, ADHD and so on. Not everyone has the same needs so we need some kind of classification even if it's imperfect.
But yeah, I ponder the same things sometimes.
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