How my brain works:

I pull a cable out from behind some gear and it makes some kind of resonant knocking sounds as it cones out.

This little thing will become part of a new sort of melody that I am always singing to myself, repeatedly, like a never-ending, ever-present minimal piece as an earworm.

My therapist thinks it might a kind of comfort mechanism. I used to sing and rock myself to sleep until I was a teenager.

For as long as I can remember I am singing to myself.

#OCPD #brainstuff

@icevislab Always happy to learn more about #BrainStuff

A weird think I have learned about reading is that like, my brain feels the same form of engagement that I would if i were to watch the news or a tv show but in a much slower and toned down manner

it's kinda interesting to feel in my brain and understand it more

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#brainstuff 🧠: "Lesion network localization of #depression in #MultipleSclerosis sclerosis"
@shansiddiqi, @IsaiahNeurology et al. on @NatMentHealth https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-022-00002-y #neurology clinical #neuroscience

Background: working on a project with a friend of mine who does not present as neuro-divergent, and does not claim to be.

I was getting frustrated with them, as they kept bringing up new tasks while I was working. This caused a lot of context switching for me. I brought this up, and the summary of a long conversation is:

In my friend's case, when a new task comes up, and they're in the middle of something, their brain does a cost benefit analysis, and inserts the task at the proper place in a queue of tasks they have.

In my case, there's no queue and no prioritization, just kind of a nebula of things that should (?) get done. Therefore, if there's a new task which comes up during a current task, there's a huge mental effort to not let the new task override whatever I'm working on.

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