Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • HOW TO TELL A CHILD ABOUT THE TRAGEDIES THAT RESULT FROM MENTAL ILLNESS CHILD: “

    HOW TO TELL A CHILD ABOUT THE TRAGEDIES THAT RESULT FROM MENTAL ILLNESS

    CHILD: “What does mental illness mean?”

    PARENT: “That’s a great question. I’ll try to do my best to explain it.

    “So, do you know how when you first wake up from a dream that you aren’t sure what’s going on? And how you can’t tell whether the dream or what you are seeing is real? and how the mood from the dream stays with you for a long time after you are awake? Well, mental illness is sort of like that. There are ideas like dreams in people’s heads and they can’t make the dream or the mood go away. Sometimes they can take medicine to help the feeling go away. But not always.

    “Do you know how, If you get sick that you will not always think the same as you do when you are well? This just means your body is not working right while you are sick, and when your body doesn’t work right it affects your brain. For people with mental illness, they are usually sick in some way or another that affects their brain. Some of this sickness they are born with. And some of it they develop over time because of illness or an accident.

    “Do you know how when you are tired, or sick or have a headache that you have no patience? And then you get angry at things that would not make you angry if you felt well? People with mental illness feel angry and have no patience like that all the time, and it never goes away. So, just like you might be frustrated or angry because you’re tired or don’t feel well, they become very frustrated and very angry because they don’t feel well, and they can’t make the feeling go away.

    “And do you know how you can even get made at people you love, like your mother when you are sick, or tired, or frustrated, and how you say things you don’t really mean, or do things that you feel bad about afterward? People with mental illness say and do things to others because they are tired, or frustrated or sick and they want to fix their pain, and because they aren’t thinking the right way, they often choose bad ways of trying to fix their pain.

    “For some of these people, medicine can help them. For other people we don’t yet have medicine to help them. And for many people they don’t like the medicine so they don’t take it.

    “We decided a long time ago, back in the 1960’s, that it was’t right to lock people with mental illness in hospitals. Partly because it is very expensive to care for them. And when we did that we decided that it was better to risk having a few tragedies than it is to lock people in hospitals. But we still aren’t sure we made the right decision.

    “Does that help?”

    CHILD: “…..um… I think so. They are sick, they are tired of being sick, and they are angry, and they aren’t’ thinking right, so they try to stop the pain they feel the wrong way”. “And we don’t want to put them in hospitals so it’s expensive. So we let them kill children in schools to save money…..”

    PARENT “Now, go explain it to some adults. They don’t get it either. :)”

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-24 10:59:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-23 21:46:00 UTC

  • FAMILY HISTORY: AMERICA, ENGLAND, BUT IS IT NORMANDY, ENGLAND OR GERMANY? I’ve w

    FAMILY HISTORY: AMERICA, ENGLAND, BUT IS IT NORMANDY, ENGLAND OR GERMANY?

    I’ve written a bit about this before. But our small family came to the states in the 1630’s. But we know everyone’s name back to the 1400’s. The family historians have made claims that we’re Normans. But that’s entirely specious. And the argument they used to prove it only serves to disprove it. We know, I think, no more than 25 names of people who participated in the Norman invasion. And our family was from central England. So, I’m fairly sure that like most english people’s we’re largely germanic. Mostly celtic. Although, given their Puritanism, and their location, it’s just as likely that they were part of the wave of German immigrants who left for greater freedom in England, or even more likely part of the Danish gene pool that dominated that area. But until we have genetic samples from enough members of the family to create some semblance of a pattern – at least on the male side, we will have a hard time being sure.

    In the large, we have retained the protestant english behavior of small business, martial devotion, and did not substantially outbreed, at least in New England, until the second world war. Although we must keep in mind that the prices of land were driven up in new England in the 1700’s, partly because it was some of the best land on earth at the time, and many families moved to the ohio river valley to take advantage of the lower cost of land. And it is more likely that that wing of the family has retained its homogeneity. The southern wing of the family is fairly large but harder to isolate.

    Some day I’ll spend some time on this. Some day. Maybe….

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-23 06:40:00 UTC

  • STATES ARE NOT PEOPLES I’ve changed my identity. My country has left me. I’m not

    STATES ARE NOT PEOPLES

    I’ve changed my identity. My country has left me. I’m not an American. I’m an Englishman. A member of the English race. A race with both genetic and written history. I will be a member of that race no matter what state chooses to deprive me of my property, and by my property, my freedom. A modern passport is a slave-brand. It’s a title. It’s ownership of your body, actions and property. Its a claim on your production. If that is not slavery, then there is no other kind. As such, I need not stand and fight for political commands, or a constitution that has failed me and my people, nor for a state that has branded me a slave, relegated me to second class legal status as a white male, and intentionally demonized me, my race and our history. I will fight for my rights as an Englishman. The right of property. The right of the common law for the adjudication of differences over property. And therefore the right of freedom from arbitrary commands by an arbitrary state.

    Some Things Are Worth Repeating

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-23 06:21:00 UTC

  • GENDER RELATIONS In America, men are trained to eschew all violence against wome

    GENDER RELATIONS

    In America, men are trained to eschew all violence against women, even the most minor, the threat of it, the verbal expression of it, and even the demonstration of their superior strength or speed.

    We are taught that everything is always our fault, that women have the right to be irresponsible in word and action and to walk away at the first sign of danger.

    My father had an abusive temper and was prone to violence. I both inherited this trait and almost completely suppressed it. The best technique I learned is to simply walk away. To vote with my feet. And to return when cooler heads prevail.

    For some reason, which I suspect is connected to my minor autism, I inspire frustration in the women I am with. I must train every woman not to use minor violence against me. So this prohibition is asymmetric in America.

    Dating here in Ukraine is interesting. And walking away is considered not gentlemanly, but weak. It is an enormous insult to the woman. Partly I suspect because it denies them their feeling if power. And oddly enough, the women seem to actually want you to be physically dominant with them when they ate emotionally raging.

    Which is just programmed out of me entirely.

    Furthermore, women do not see themselves as weak here like their american counterparts do – even while denying it at every opportunity. They see men as physically strong and dangerous. But not that they have any particular advantage. Women know that manipulating men is trivially easy. And they master their craft like no other women on earth. I have heard ” he is just a man” spoken about one man or another from a dozen women now.

    Obviously I haven’t come to terms with this difference in cultural expectations. And I’m not sure I want to.

    But I have to also observe that despite their relative poverty, and because of it, the limited alternatives for masculine signaling have made these men more masculine than their western counterparts.

    And relationships here, once you see through Byzantine nihilism, are less like american marital business partnerships, and more like families.

    It’s a beautiful thing.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-23 02:19:00 UTC

  • IS IT TRUE THAT WEALTH MAKES A PEOPLE STUPID AND OF NECESITY SELFISH? I’m strugg

    IS IT TRUE THAT WEALTH MAKES A PEOPLE STUPID AND OF NECESITY SELFISH?

    I’m struggling with this problem. What we call enlightenment individualism is important in the sense that we must have several private property in order to have individual incentives to act, and out of self interest, to act in the interest of extra-familial “others”.

    But the wealth that results from these incentives to produce gives us freedom to buy the luxury of spatial freedom. And with it, the luxury of freedom from daily compromise with others.

    Society requires information systems that compensate fir our limited perception, knowledge and comprehension. The first is interpersonal compromise. the second is the market. The third is money. The fourth is accounting.

    This is society.

    But without interpersonal compromise. Can we in fact maintain those dependent institutions.

    I am not yet sure.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-23 00:26:00 UTC

  • Shan Stewart shared a photo to your timeline

    Shan Stewart shared a photo to your timeline.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-22 13:10:00 UTC

  • THE ERAS IF ONE’S LIFE How do you break down your life into sets of memories? I

    THE ERAS IF ONE’S LIFE

    How do you break down your life into sets of memories?

    I don’t think anyone uses years. Years measure. They don’t explain.

    I think in terms of jobs and women. After that, cars. The women and jobs are connected. The cars aren’t. 🙂

    My friends stay constant over time. So that doesn’t categorize anything.

    I haven’t thought about what that means.

    Just curious how others think of their lives. Whether systems are isolated like that or a continuity of relations. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-22 11:57:00 UTC

  • TAKING GREATNESS FIR GRANTED. I LOVE THIS COUNTRY. they complain about the meani

    TAKING GREATNESS FIR GRANTED.

    I LOVE THIS COUNTRY.

    they complain about the meaningless and fail to understand that it just isn’t better than this. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-21 17:54:00 UTC

  • PHP VS JAVA CULTURE ok. So at the Christmas party the PHP developers are dancing

    PHP VS JAVA CULTURE

    ok. So at the Christmas party the PHP developers are dancing and getting ridiculous and the java developers are sitting in the back of the room. What does that mean? Lol.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-21 17:29:00 UTC