“the prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully form until yr 25!!” y do u wish to take more agency away from teens and young adults. y do u refer to phrenology to inform yr worldview. I’m about to undevelop yr prefrontal cortex with a baseball bat if u don’t shut the fuck up
for the ppl who decided something they saw in a scientific american headline their friend posted counts as objective fact, from the Wikipedia list of common misconceptions:
it’s pop science. it’s pseudoscience. it’s phrenology. it’s not real.
Though it decreases in plasticity as we age, the brain never stops being able to change and grow. Thatās why stroke rehab is possible.
#every time someone cites this ‘fact’ #as a reason why people between 18 and 26 are unable to self determine or consent to relationships #my hackles go all the way the fuck up #being young and figuring your shit out #isn’t the same as being a little child with no agency or ability to make choices #adulthood is temporal but it’s also learned #and when you treat people like stupid children until they’re 25 #then you’re one weird conversation away from claiming that anyone under 30 can’t make choices or some shit
(tags via @bogunicornā)
Bad news: thereās already noise from conservatives along those lines, and theyāre currently testing it out on trans people!
Now, if youāve ever met anyone who was treated like a child well into adulthood you know that that just pushes the Learning to Adult Effectively problem along and you get an immature 25-to-30-year-old, not one thatās wiser and makes no mistakes. Conservatives know this too, but they also know that keeping people infantilized is a great way to control them.
Reject the psuedoscience bullshit. No one learns and grows by being kept inside a little box.
Many otherkin and fictionkin experience their kintypes as previous lives, and generally also consider those previous lives to still be fully them without separation. Sort of how you’ve grown more than your 10 year old self, but your 10 year old self is still fully you, rather than a seperate person. That’s how past life kintypes are.
There are also otherkin and fictionkin who experience their kintypes in ways that aren’t past lives such as parallel lives, and embodiment.
And there are kin who have past lives that they don’t consider ‘relevant’ enough to them to personally consider a kintype.
What you’re describing sounds like something I might easily describe as a past life memory we’re it to happen to me. These can also be called noemata, of you prefer a more psychological term.
It also sounds to me like you could be experiencing something called ‘fictionflickers.
Fictionflickers are a type of experience where a person suddenly and temporarily experiences being a person from a fictional media, which may include receiving flashes of memory, or temporarily takingbon the personality of that character.
