Comments on: what does it take to stop getting carried away?

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:21:48 +0000

No worries, Sue. I’m glad I was able to help a little! This is one of my big areas of interest that I’d like to do proper research work on in the future.

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:19:07 +0000

I know this blog is old, but I needed it now and am grateful it’s here. I’ve never been diagnosed as a non-neurotypical, but I have suffered from perseverative/ruminative thiinking for as long as I can remember. For some reason, the old lightbulb just went off, illuminating the connnection between rumination and depression. I googled it, and voila(!) ~ this article emerged. Thanks, Ali, for the insight on rumination/perseveration as a helpful tool which can enable one to combat difficulties with working memory, another area of difficulty for me. P.S. My sister (age 52) was recently diagosed with autism. Go figure.

By: stare up at the sky « The Alternate Lexicon

stare up at the sky « The Alternate Lexicon — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:35:23 +0000

[...] own early signs of a life-long sprint from black clouds, but apparently the part of my brain that ruminates without my knowledge was busy at work on something altogether [...]

By: I thought we talked this over yesterday « The Alternate Lexicon

I thought we talked this over yesterday « The Alternate Lexicon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:22:13 +0000

[...] intellectual information coming in–and going out, such as via blogging–to feed my own ruminative processes. Not only do I think they are a good thing, I now think they are essential to my well-being. When I [...]

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:55:14 +0000

… a trait just doesn’t have to kill you off before you reproduce to be kept in the gene pool. Hell, even if it does kill you off, if your sibling has that gene but not expressed in the same manner and they reproduce, the gene can be passed on without issues.

Yes! This is one of the things that always annoys me about people’s armchair theorizing about human evolution (and it’s by no means restricted to ev-psych; you see this sometimes in discussions of physical traits as well): magical thinking about natural selection. They have to come up with evolutionary advantages for every random trait they can think of, because if it something weren’t advantageous, the Natural Selection Fairies would’ve zapped it, wouldn’t they???