But the scale could be fine-grained, nearly continuous. I.e. perhaps someone like your learning-disabled friend can learn some less consequential skills (like verbal conversation), but not medium consequential skills. Then someone like me can learn many less consequential kills, some medium consequential skills, and maybe 1 or 2 high consequential skills. Then another axis is how well those skills are pushed down into habitual behavior. Your friend might be very good at pushing what skills she can learn into habit, whereas I have to re-learn whatever skill I happen to be capable of learning each time I want to use it. If, as we age, our *plasticity* degrades faster than pushed-down habits, then I will approach your friends capability faster than she loses her skills. My increasing disability might outstrip hers.
Yep, I've definitely noticed members of the various cliques treat me as a bad faith actor (or "tourist" or whatever). Because I forget conversations, facts, shared values, and such that they seem to remember as significant, they then think I thought the conversations (and perhaps them as people) are *in*significant. I don't think that. I just forget things and have to consistently re-learn them. Luckily, in many cases, I re-learn very fast. When I'm upfront with them about my episodic personality, they begin to *help* me save and swap in and out various state. Then nobody gets offended. On 8/16/22 08:47, Marcus Daniels wrote:
I know a learning-disabled person that has good verbal conversational skills but can't learn skills of any consequence. Another person I know has dementia but still forms plausible sentences. It takes a moment of observation before recognizing there is something missing in these two people. It is only the appearance of robustness. It comparable to motor skills for walking. I've noticed a potential downside to these resets. If one works with people that are driven toward falling into ruts (or less negatively, "taking on roles"), this can come off like indifference to the tribe identity. For me, vacations are mostly a way to recognizing the rut I am in, only to be forced back into it. I don't find them very useful. What's needed is a daily maintenance protocol where productivity can occur without being driven into a miserable situation in the first place. Vacations should be one of many outlets for growing curiosity and being sufficiently random.
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