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Ticker-tape synaesthesia – when real life comes with subtitles
  • I’m early 30s now. Interesting yours is still there. I also previously experienced color grapheme synaesthesia (more specifically just numbers which were coloured) but that went away by the time I was about 12.

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    'He was an incurable romantic': The boy who lived a secret life in World of Warcraft
  • I’m gonna watch this, but it’s gonna make me cry man haha

    I also had a friend on WoW who also had an incurable illness and eventually passed away. We spent hours together on Ventrilo back in the day

    We were Horde though, lol

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    Ticker-tape synaesthesia – when real life comes with subtitles
  • For some, it might feel as though their mind is mimicking the physical act of writing the word, a phenomenon known as motor imagery. “Some might notice typing words on a phone or a computer keyboard,” says Price.

    I have this, really interesting to know there is a term for it. Actually, “had” is more accurate, as it slowly diminished over the years and has essentially gone away now, probably stopped happening in my mid 20s or so. Sometimes it was handwriting, but usually QWERTY keyboard typing or even T9 dumbphone typing.

    Also experienced other mild forms of synaesthesia too, but those are gone now as well. Kinda miss it sometimes. Being a kid was kinda magical.

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    Fridges never die.
  • Yep those m2 hat things look pretty useful. Thanks for the info! Portable USB drives are something I’d overlooked.

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    Fridges never die.
  • Are you able to easily attach spinning rust hard drives to those? If so, how? I think those things use more than 5W on their own. Biggest question I have before planning a horizontal raspi setup. Currently I use old x64 PC boxes for self hosting.

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    when and how did you know you were gay?
  • It took until I was about 18 for it to “click” and make sense to me that I was actually bi, not straight and not gay. It was very confusing growing up having attraction to both females and males.

    I had the same “damn my friend(s) are TOO good looking” experience as you, but also had crushes on girls and went on dates. I also “experimented” with a male friend of mine (also romantically), and even after all of this, it took a few years more for it to click lol.

    Also, yeah, guys on underwear.. oh boy

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