#19: Phobias, Apotemnophilia, Youthful Biases | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews 

We just want to help keep your frontal cortexes sharp!

Who is WHOM

Easy peasy Which one of them is science and which one of them is the beard? 🙄 Ok…that was stupid

Great question! 👍🏼

I second this question!

I would be interested in that too. I am very late diagnosed ASD 1, and I am aware that one of the reasons for the rise of the anti-vax movement was that the onset of visible traits will sometimes correlate with times of vaccination. My baby pictures suggest to me a pretty significant shift in my first six months, and though I don’t subscribe to anti-vex theory, I do debate other possible external factors. Given that ASD diagnosis has largely been focused on males until recently, circumcision would be one common shared experience. This seems particularly significant in that there has been considerable discussion in the online autism community of late regarding the likelihood that many autistic traits, as defined by the DSM, may in fact be stress responses of the type that an autistic mind will display. ASD aside, I am certainly aware that I my anxiety is largely rooted in the heritable stress predisposition that Sapolsky has noted: prenatal exposure to my mother’s high levels of glucocorticoids. Also what I refer to as “the Sapolsky graph”: the dramatic effect predisposition can have on the response to external factors. My definition of my childhood is that nothing too bad happened, but I take things hard. And I once observed an animal correlary to circumcision: as a teen, we had sheep in the pasture behind my house. One spring, I watched the newly birthed lambs bounding around the pasture, playing and, I would say, exuding happiness. Then one day, I noticed that they were all milling, subdued. Their tails had been bobbed. I never saw them bound around after that; it seemed to me that they had discovered that the world was not the happy, safe space they imagined. As a hypervigilant person, this was either projection or identification on my part. I am not sure if they use some anesthetic when circumcising these days - they damn sure didn’t in my time. What I know as horse serum formulations of vaccines were also still around, for that matter. I don’t know if any I got as an infant were of that type, but I received a tetanus booster at around age ten that was, and it was astonishingly painful.

una sopa de chispas conscientes, una sopa fungica y canibal, bueno, mucho mas complejo que eso pero me gusta el concepto

Lol - mine twitched.

1) _Really like your dog._ 🦮 - t 5 0 - 2) _Really like your couch._ 🛋 - j q t - 3) _???_ 🕳

@@quill444the lore deepens

He was very attentive but kind of dropped the ball at the end.

I’m already not listening to “after the mutiny” this privateer probably has the credits to not listen to that one either

Psychiatry,medicine and modern science involved=sucide. But but its somehow ok. Because socially accepted.

Any current humans rights issues you feel strongly about?

​​@@ShmoopDooperNot right now. Probably For month or so I have irrational fear that someone will hack cars to chase dogs and I am also under an Illusion of this exact thing... That I lose My leg and feel like cutting it off. Its being a disorder to me. I also have a theory that women pulling on dog leashes wrong are source of many animal crimes. Dogs e.g could probably learn to lead cars.

@@jf-jx4ym oh my! I hope you have someone like a counselor to confide in, it is good to be able to express yourself to someone rather than “bottle it up” :)