Are you a peach, or a coconut? 🍑🥥
Tell me some more about two types of people ... A Terrible Llama asks for examples of (lesser known) "two types of people" tropes, and you will either find the answers fascinating, or not.
Tell me some more about two types of people ... A Terrible Llama asks for examples of (lesser known) "two types of people" tropes, and you will either find the answers fascinating, or not.
"Yes, citing these in an argument will annoy everyone. But what fun!" storybored posted "100 Little Ideas that Explain how the Human World works," including such items as "Bizarreness Effect," "Skill Compensation," and "Curse of Knowledge."
In Ask Metafilter, Desertshore would like to know, "Is it possible to become an ex-procrastinator?"
brainwane has a couple of great posts up about ADHD: The World Federation of ADHD's International Consensus Statement of 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder, and "this was like discovering DNA", about David Cain's (Raptitude) ADHD diagnosis.
In Ask Metafilter, Jane the Brown has a great answer to ficbot's question, Is there really a monster underneath the bed??
Things people do to make them seem uberhuman & thus uniquely capable? In Ask Metafilter, mrmanvir is looking for examples of "well-known professionals performing strangeness, otherness, or superhumanness to promote perceptions of their unique abilities."
What do you see in your mind's eye? Come tell us, in the thread on people who have no mental images.
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