Confessions of a prosocial psychopath
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ksmithThis is really interesting. It’s 15 minutes long, but it’s worth listening to.
If you learned something like this about yourself, how do you think you’d react?
About This Video
Neuroscientist James Fallon is a self-styled “hobbit scientist.” The rules are simple: Don’t talk to the press and don’t go out of your area of expertise. But when a fascinating new brain scanner enters the lab, Fallon can’t resist. He ends up breaking both rules, and learns a lot more about himself than he bargained for. WSF teams up with what The Wall Street Journal calls “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket,” The Moth, for an innovative series of unpredictable storytelling.
If you learned something like this about yourself, how do you think you’d react?
About This Video
Neuroscientist James Fallon is a self-styled “hobbit scientist.” The rules are simple: Don’t talk to the press and don’t go out of your area of expertise. But when a fascinating new brain scanner enters the lab, Fallon can’t resist. He ends up breaking both rules, and learns a lot more about himself than he bargained for. WSF teams up with what The Wall Street Journal calls “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket,” The Moth, for an innovative series of unpredictable storytelling.
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Date: 2011-09-19 02:37 am (UTC)The rest of it:
On the home front, our son is definitely autistic, but does not fit (now) the level of disability or the picture of the adult we were told to expect. A heckuva lot of nurture went into changing the prognosis we were given...nurture individually tailored to what he needed. I know I could have done a better job if I had known to start with what I learned by making all the mistakes I made (and no, I don't want to adopt another autistic kid at at this point--I no longer have the physical stamina to deal with the lack of sleep and the stress.)
Personally, I don't think it's EVER just one thing that brings a particular adult individual suite of behaviors from the fertilized egg. It's nature in the genes, and nurture in the womb, and nature in how the fetus responds to conditions in the womb, and nurture by the culture of the pregnant woman (the effects of famine on pregnant women can be traced in their *grandchildren*!) and the two together all the way up.