As my last post got a lot of attention Id like to add some more. Between the ages of 5-7 I was treated and observed at the childrens psychiatry ward at the State Hospital in Reykjavik. The cause was my abnormal behaviour. They couldnt find anything wrong with me, suspected brain damage but I tested very well on IQ. I was diagnosed as: Maladaptio. The word had no meaning to my working class parents. Or my teachers or anyone else for that matter. Not to me. I was simply not like other children. I try to explain this in my books and how this has effected my life. Countless times have I tried to change myself or figure out what is wrong with me so I could adapt. I have tried everything, all the medication and all the diet tips. Psychotherapy. Healing. Even god. Nothing. Never changed anything to the better. This is me. This is what I am and who I am. I am different because Im me. I have come at peace with my brain. (Except for when I have migraine). I question free will. In my experience my brain is usually way ahead of me. I now understand what often is considered mistakes, our brains look at as fun experiments. When I was growing up the greatest threat was considered TV and comics. Now its the internet and computer games. I learned more from TV than from school. I love TV. My parents kept active playing cards and solving word puzzles. I play video games. And when I retire I will do more of it. The human brain has never in its evolutionary history had to face anything remotely like the internet. Our brains are connecting with other brains in ways we are not always aware of. I think nature is changing our brains to prepare for the future. And sometimes maybe abnormal behaviour is just a natural reaction to abnormal circumstances? We dont always understand it. We have different names for it, different opinions, stigmas and generalizations. So maybe many children are highly intelligent aliens from the future and we are cave men who dont understand why they dont want to learn how to suck bone marrow. Maybe its not them but us who are Maladaptio?
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:57:47 +0000
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