(I don’t mean fake toy problems like the color red, I mean real things like affect and memory, practically speaking)
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How can you tell if your subjective experience of the world is abnormal?
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how so?
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We should have a proper baseline for this - self-tests or questionnaires should work for some aspects? I suppose you know this:https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-experiences-are-you-missing-without-realizing-it/ …
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This is something I've thought about. If you go through the threads, there are a fair number of these: multiple forms of color-blindness, lack of smell (anosmia), tonedeafness, lack of musical enjoyment (musical anhedonia), lack of mental visual imagery (aphantasia)...
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find other people's recountings of their experiences; see if any of them sound more like yours than others. if so, find the ones that sound most like yours and see if those are regarded as abnormal. if not, then yes it is
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holy shit I should do a thread on this. figuring out that my weird brain has some sensory cross-wiring (among other things) was a long slow discovery process.
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quite a lot of incidents of "hey, do you guys hear that too?" and similar were involved though
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What does “normal” mean? I suspect that a significant part of why I’ve been embracing postmodernism is so that I have an excuse (to myself) for why I don’t need to worry about it as much.
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haha replace all instances of "is it normal" with "does it work"
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