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Cake day: June 30th, 2025

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  • Are there really people who mix up impulses and intrusive thoughts?

    I always love explaining to people that when I handle kitchen knives a small part of me is like “Slit your fucking neck and stab everyone you know! You can do it with that knife you got!” I’ve gotten over the horror of it but it took me years to comprehend that it’s not normal.

















  • This is a perfect representation of how my mind is laid out. Everything is a tree with things connected together by feelings/relations. Individual events are painful to keep track of (wife constantly tells me that we’ve already had conversations multiple times). Superfluous detail is lost immediately.

    But how a certain function in code breaking can ripple to the whole system is as natural as I breathe. Random trivia facts too, since they were novel enough to connect at the cool thing to know node. What someone wore yesterday or where the ketchup is (I don’t eat ketchup) is just completely filtered out. Couldn’t describe peoples faces but I know them when I see them. 99% of those “celebrity lookalike” things look nothing like them and I get baffled how people can confuse them, but I’d assume it’s from them visualizing the celebrity with some error