#curiousity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #curiousity, aggregated by home.social.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
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What Finland, coffee and #NeilDeGrasseTyson have to do with being curious and its importance. We talk with artist and entrepreneur #JimHarper on episode 3 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-03-jim-harper/id1746606151?i=1000655744489
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What Finland, coffee and #NeilDeGrasseTyson have to do with being curious and its importance. We talk with artist and entrepreneur #JimHarper on episode 3 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-03-jim-harper/id1746606151?i=1000655744489
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: The boring internet, empty calories, and botified social media to Everest, Bourdain, conversations that surprise you, and why writing is still the most important skill you can have.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Entertainment-pervading politics to Pixar's three-pitch rule, AI's Jevons Paradox, Game Theory's Prisoner's Dilemma, and swapping doomscrolling for comic books.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Fault-tolerant computers, cosmic perspective, Shazam's sound fingerprints, Coyote vs. ACME, prediction markets, authority, music, sleep, and turning 55.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: AI's boiling frog effect on cognition, resurrecting a 1992 MUD, agentic systems and bottlenecks, secret recordings of 10,000 concerts, and why a project will save you.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Corporate chaos, dopamine chasing, health rabbit holes, locker dives, a Civil War submarine mystery, and Mr. Brightside.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: From AI augmentation and generative AI vegetarianism to the resilience paradox, chocolate heists, the slow death of new music, mazes and labyrinths, and doing what you want.
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: From inner life to stupid ideas, the magic of streaming radio, the case for slowness, and why automating broken things just breaks them faster.
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There is so much to know (about). So, for the insatiably curious: how do you manage this?
Do you maintain a personal knowledge base in something like @obsidian?
Do you have endless piles of scrawled notes that you can't type up fast enough?
Is it a problem for you? Like, do you ever worry it's some kind of pathological distraction/defense mechanism against a baked-in sense of inferiority that can be displaced only by one more piece of #knowledge?
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Quiet things, optimized selves, AI psychosis, sync music, lightning strikes, beautiful questions, and why making has always been about mattering. #storytelling #leadership #curiousity
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Claude Code, phantom fluency, gut instinct, block universes, and the noble path of building things for each other. #storytelling #leadership #curiousity
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Zen motorcycles and David Lynch's Star Wars to Earth's secret soundtrack, philosopher thinking, MacGyver creativity, and the river of endless scroll. #storytelling #leadership #curiousity
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Is curiosity an undervalued trait and if so, why? #Artist and #entrepreneur #JimHarper explores the nuts and bolts of this question and more on episode 3 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2NaFUzjzRWvH750v7RnM9T?si=e63f99a267124c52
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Zagging creators and omoiyari to curating people, Sunday self-meetings, NYT games dominance, and satellites enshittifying the night sky. #storytelling #leadership #curiousity
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Writing sharpens thinking, incremental growth, intentional scarcity, omnipotence and cognitive debt, and how organizations get sick. #storytelling #leadership #curiousity
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Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: The creative power of walking, agency, brains vs computers, the small web, publishing imperfection, mixtapes, teleporting and why chewing sounds drive you crazy. #storytelling #leadership #curiousity
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Not so silent sunday followup for my #curiousity
If there are word nerds that find themselves reading this - in the description of the photo I started to write "flotsam and jetsam" as a phrase for stirred up sediment. I spelled "flotsam" wrong - and in the correction learned that both have a specific maritime meaning.
I don't know whether my use is a Jasonism - or there are others - actual writers - that have used "flotsam and jetsam" as a more loquacious version of sediment. #etymology
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A wee bee interaction today. This little one was super curious about beautiful wifeys hand.
It actually landed on and explored all around - I have video of this if anyone would like to see it.
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A wee bee interaction today. This little one was super curious about beautiful wifeys hand.
It actually landed on and explored all around - I have video of this if anyone would like to see it.
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A wee bee interaction today. This little one was super curious about beautiful wifeys hand.
It actually landed on and explored all around - I have video of this if anyone would like to see it.
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A wee bee interaction today. This little one was super curious about beautiful wifeys hand.
It actually landed on and explored all around - I have video of this if anyone would like to see it.
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A wee bee interaction today. This little one was super curious about beautiful wifeys hand.
It actually landed on and explored all around - I have video of this if anyone would like to see it.
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What actually deserves my attention at this point in life? And what doesn't.
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Is curiosity an undervalued trait and if so, why? #Artist and #entrepreneur #JimHarper explores the nuts and bolts of this question and more on episode 3 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2NaFUzjzRWvH750v7RnM9T?si=e63f99a267124c52
#curiousity #podcast -
Is curiosity an undervalued trait and if so, why? #Artist and #entrepreneur #JimHarper explores the nuts and bolts of this question and more on episode 3 of #YoureOnMuteThePodcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2NaFUzjzRWvH750v7RnM9T?si=e63f99a267124c52
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A Three Year Old’s Instinct to Ask Why
Reading Time: 2 minutes
Two or three weeks ago I wrote that I hate Caribana but I also wrote that I have enjoyed the event the past. I also shared a walking route that I could use to get there and back, without using the car. For saying that I hate Caribana I was called a hater, and then that person tried to have a fight, in private via DMs. I said I'm not interested in an argument.
Unheard
I considered leaving the group as a result of this interaction. After some thought I thought "Why did person A apologise, and why did person B not ask "Why" instead of throwing accusations? If a three year old toddler had been around it would have asked "Why?" and I could have given an answer. I would have said that it's because of the noise pollution that prevents me from watching TV, opening the window, and sleeping from Wednesday to Sunday Morning at 3am. If that question had been asked the situation would have been resolved.
In reality my answer was known, because I mentioned that concern when on the train down from St Cergue after a hike. This is not a secret. I have been open about my concern with Paléo and Caribana forgetting about local people and their right to get a good night of sleep.
Subtext
In a healthy online community people know the nuances of our character. They know about our passions, our concerns, and our character. By using WhatsApp social networks like GoSocial make us more intimate than we should be, too soon. By intimate I mean that we're in WhatsApp chats with strangers who know nothing about the nuance of our character. It's easy for misunderstandings to occur. It's easy to encounter apathy rather than empathy.
Not Personal
My comment was about an aspect of an event. It was not personal. It was an offhand comment that was amplified and blown out of proportion. The irony is that the group is just 25 people or so. In a group that small you expect the community to keep itself in check. In such a small community I expect to be treated as an adult, rather than a misbehaving child.
Curiousity
By asking "Why" a three year old shows curiousity. By showing curiousity a three year old potentially shows empathy. By potentially showing empathy a three year old creates a personal connection. By creating a personal connection the three year old helps a discussion move forward.
And Finally
If the reflex had been to ask "Why?" rather than to police what I wrote, my sense of community would have remained intact. By asking "why" empathy is shown. If empathy is shown the sense of community remains. Since this incident I have given up on Whatsapp chats.
WhatsApp is not a social media channel, and WhatsApp chat rooms are not populated by close-knit communities.
#compassion #conversation #conviviality #curiousity #empathy #friendship #sympathy
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Professor Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning
In this talk, Guy Claxton warns against the scientism and epistemic injustice of “The Science of Learning” and proposes instead something very much aligned with our notions of niche construction, toolbelt theory, collaboration, and iteration. These contribute to what Claxton calls “epistemic apprenticeship”.
https://youtu.be/qGFEswKBnMw?si=v62sC5IHR1GRRqC4
As Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang states, “We simply are not Frankenstein monsters.” We tend to focus on small mechanisms and parts and pieces of knowledge. Instead, focus on the whole person, not the Frankenstein monster with all the little pieces. Affective neuroscience teaches us new perspectives for understanding and appreciating the importance of the whole person in the educational context.
Similarly, David Perkins warns us against the atomized learning of “element-itis”.
David Perkins talks about the importance of not atomizing learning, not turning it into what he calls the twin diseases of about-ism, always just talking about things rather than learning to do them, and what he refers to as element-itis, that everything has to be built up like Lego from little bricks of knowledge before you can really get to work on them.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Instead of attempting to build Frankenstein children from reductionist parts, let children build their own niches and tool belts in whole, embodied ways compatible with cognitive and somatic liberty. Let them embark on an “epistemic apprenticeship”.
Table of Contents
- Selected Quotes from the Talk
- Reading List
- Further Reading
Selected Quotes from the Talk
[This example of expository teaching] is appropriate because you’re all adults who are free to come, or not, and you’ve come presumably because you think there’s something you think you might find interesting…in being here. That’s not the case of schools, of course…
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
It’s a big jump to go from the sometimes appropriateness of a group of people sitting quietly and politely being told things by someone else, to assuming that such forms of teaching are somehow the dominant or the mandatory forms of teaching in places of education.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Sciences of learning – plural
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Affective neuroscience
- Social neuroscience
- Al and robotics
- Philosophy
- Sociocultural psychology
- Cognitive anthropology
- Developmental psychology
- Embodied cognition
- Evolutionary psychology
- Information processing psychology
- Instructional psychology
There’s no such thing as THE science of learning.
We are a variety of scholars working on understanding learning.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Sciences of LearningS
- Skill development
- Perceptual learning
- Learning to learn
- Developing attitudes, values and interests
- Identity development
- Information retention and retrieval
- Deep understanding
- A part in a play
- Making and Performing: Dance, Design Technology, Sport
- School maths and science
The sciences of learnings are not exclusively or even principally about school.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Learning happens when someone wishes to learn, not when someone wishes to teach.
Ken Robinson
A properly designed school system needs to focus on cognitive abilities, not scholarly subjects…If we allow students to choose what areas of knowledge they would like to focus on while learning those skills, they would be attentive and interested.
Roger Schank
We humans have created… mechanisms of thought, embodied in our nervous systems, that enable our minds to go further, faster and in different directions than the minds of any other animals… They are passed on to subsequent generations through social learning.
In the future, the cultural inheritance of cognitive mechanisms could be enhanced by formal education. It may be possible to design training programs for use in schools…to improve cognitive skills.
Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets
It’s fairly obvious that there is a fundamental mismatch between secondary education and the way kids learn. In school we want kids to start with the small building blocks, to learn the little pieces and start to put those together. But that is not how the human mind grows. It grows by engaging with deep powerful [ideas and questions] and then working backward to inform the meaning you are making…Supporting young people to engage with the complexities of their moral and social lives…is what is deeply, deeply motivating- and it is what grows their brains.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Intelligence is the sum total of our habits of mind.
As long as school focuses mainly on individual forms of competence, on tool-free performance, and on decontextualized skills, educating people to be good learners in school settings alone may not be sufficient to help them become strong out-of-school learners.
Lauren Resnick
Hardly anything we do is done solo. No matter whether you are an athlete, a business person, a scientist, a trash collector, or a clerk, you are almost always coordinating with other people in a complex way. Human endeavor is deeply and intrinsically collective—except in schools.
David Perkins
Much of the recent work on embodied cognition shows beyond a shadow of doubt that forms of higher cognition retain a deep and often quite automatic grounding in the sensorimotor, in the physical, in the actual, in the emotional, in the embodied stuff of our being.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
What’s coming out of the laboratory, many of the laboratories, is that there is a bit of a shift from that rather narrow concern only with the rational and the linguistic and the argumentative, to a concern to a revised, renewed concern. It was there in the early days, was there if you read William James, with a concern that the real, the real world of living, of loving, of raising children, what we might now call embodied or warm cognition, a form of cognition that is embroiled with and suffused with emotion, with bodily process, with illness and so on.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Curiosity is the engine, is the driver of learning.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
In a state of mindfulness, your own assumptions become visible to you.
And once they become visible, then they can become questionable. And once they become questionable, they become mutable.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Education as an Epistemic Apprenticeship
- School as a place where you go to get good at thinking, learning and knowing
- As in any apprenticeship, you need
- Role models – teachers as ‘master-learners’
- Mates – some a bit further on than you
- Tasks that build competence and confidence
- Feedback on progress
- Appreciation of your (growing) contribution to life
- Escalating responsibility
- Doesn’t it do that already? NO!
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Explicit teaching, as it’s become known, is good for relatively short term retentions of relatively exam type knowledge. If that’s your overriding goal, then that’s a reasonable way of teaching. It’s not ineffective, but if you also care about the development of collaboration, of intuition, of imagination, of self-rescuing, of resilience, of curiosity, if those are also on your list of valued outcomes, then it’s far less clear that explicit teaching is the optimal pedagogy.
And so it’s up to us, isn’t it? It’s up to us in terms of what we what we value, to be first very clear about that. And only then start making decisions about the optimal forms of pedagogy.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
So what do the learning sciences tell us about teaching?
- The “learning sciences” is a hybrid, multi-perspectival and unfolding discipline. There is no single agreed “science of learning”
- Even if there were, it would not tell us how to teach, without a clear specification of what we are teaching for.
- “Good teaching” involves a constantly changing balance of framing, explaining and exploring. A classroom is a complex adaptive system.
- The development of valued traits such as perseverance, independence and collaboration require escalating levels of challenge, autonomy and exploratory talk. To judge this escalation right you have to know your students well, as a group and individually.
- Learning, thinking and ‘behaving intelligently’ cannot be properly understood apart from matters of personality, emotion, conviviality, the nature of the challenge and the social context.
- Science and maths are not valid prototypes for all school learning.
- Mind is organic and ecological, not computational. Learning naturally grows out from what is already known. Mind is a tree, not a computer.
- The fundamental driver of learning is the urge to derive accurate predictions from experience that will guide future action, not to stockpile explicit knowledge. That is ancillary.
- Cognition is enhanced by culturally derived and socially transmitted ‘upgrades’ – and sometimes reduced by downgrades.
- Predictive processing, social and affective neuroscience and embodied cognition support wider purposes of education, and point towards possible pedagogies that involve emotion, autonomy, inquiry and ‘interthinking’
- School as an epistemic apprenticeship – cultivating positive epistemic upgrades and avoiding downgrades – is a wantable and practicable goal, but it challenges many educational shibboleths and will of course have its opponents.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Reading List
Here are the books mentioned during the talk:
- Future of Teaching: And the Myths That Hold It Back by Guy Claxton
- Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools by Roger C. Schank
- Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Heyes
- Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again by Andy Clark
- Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
- Education and Learning to Think by Lauren B. Resnick
- Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education by David Perkins
Further Reading
https://stimpunks.org/2023/11/22/on-the-problems-with-science-of-reading/
https://stimpunks.org/philosophy/were-raising-whole-children-not-frankenstein-children/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/niche-construction/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/toolbelt-theory/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/embodiment/
https://stimpunks.org/space/cavendish/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/intelligence/
#affectiveNeuroscience #cognitiveLiberty #collaboration #curiousity #epistemicApprenticeship #epistemicInjustice #iteration #nicheConstruction #scienceOfLearning #scientism #somaticLiberty #toolbeltTheory
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Always think outside of the box and question dogma. You never know what you will discover.
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Been rewatching Madam Secretary on #Netflix. Noticed this logo on several laptops in many episodes. Anyone know if this is from a real company? Image searches didn't reveal any leads...
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Curiosity: The neglected trait that drives success via BBC [Shared]
On 7 January 1918 at New York’s Hippodrome, the incredible illusionist Harry Houdini unveiled one of his most famous tricks – the vanishing elephant – in front of thousands of spectators.
The beast in question, Jennie, reportedly weighed 10,000 pounds (4,536kg). She raised her trunk in greeting, before a stagehand led her into a huge cabinet and closed the doors behind them. After a dramatic drum roll, the doors reopened – and the cabinet was now empty. To the thousands of spectators, it seemed that she had vanished into thin air.
How could Houdini have managed to hide such an enormous animal? No one at the time could provide a definitive explanation of what had happened, though there is one predominant theory.
#curiousity #Thinking #intelligence #trait #education #career #shared
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What's in the fridge?
Asher checking out fridge contents.#CatsOfMastodon #CaturdayEveryday #CatLovers #CatsOfTheFediverse #CatContent #FediCats #BFF #Curiousity
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I’m find great pleasure in creative sound demos on the internet. Today: Sine Wave Speech
exploring the question of how far can you simplify recorded speech and still understand what has been said.https://www.sinewavespeech.com/explanation/
By Václav Volhejn
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I’m find great pleasure in creative sound demos on the internet. Today: Sine Wave Speech
exploring the question of how far can you simplify recorded speech and still understand what has been said.https://www.sinewavespeech.com/explanation/
By Václav Volhejn
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I’m find great pleasure in creative sound demos on the internet. Today: Sine Wave Speech
exploring the question of how far can you simplify recorded speech and still understand what has been said.https://www.sinewavespeech.com/explanation/
By Václav Volhejn
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What’s happened to curiosity in medicine? A story of two appointments.
If you’re a healthcare worker and your patient says they’re in pain, a medication isn’t working or something doesn’t seem right … listen to them. If what they’re saying seems “odd”… don’t dismiss them out of hand. Get curious. Ask questions. Listen to the patient.
The human body is incredible and unique. We all respond in different ways - and we learn more about the human condition every day. If something isn’t “adding up”… it could be a missed diagnosis.
Here’s one of my most frustrating examples:
I go to the doctor with a strange type of infection that is usually only seen in end stage AIDS patients.
Doctor: “Have you been tested for HIV?”
Me: “Yes - it was negative.”
Doctor: “huh. You sure? Let’s test you again.”
It comes back negative AGAIN
Me: “so what now?”
Doctor: “I don’t know. That’s really weird. Here’s the medication we would give you IF you had AIDS.”
That was IT. No follow up. Zero curiosity. No testing to determine WHY I had an infection only seen in AIDS patients when I did not have AIDS. Heck they wouldn’t even run an immune panel to take a closer look at my CD4 and CD8 count. It was just “sorry about your luck but this is not my problem.”
Contrast that with one of my BEST experiences with a VERY curious doctor:
I was there for suspected POTS which I was diagnosed with. In the process the cardiologist found an aneurysm and felt that given my age, lifestyle and persistently LOW blood pressure it was “odd” for me to have one.
She gave me a huge questionnaire of seemingly unrelated questions to fill out - about everything from dental issues to gynaecology and what I was like as a young child.
She reviewed the questionnaire with me and really took the time to LISTEN. We talked about previous illnesses, injuries, surgeries and how I felt in my body. I was treated like the expert - which had never happened before.
I left that appointment exhausted and stunned as it was the first time a doctor had worked so collaboratively with me. I was referred to genetics where I was finally given the diagnosis that put all the missing pieces together - EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome).
The signs had been there for years - but no one ever slowed down and spoke to me long enough to realize it. No one was curious enough. No one asked me what it was like to be in MY body.
It seems so simple - yet it’s a skill many healthcare workers lack.
My ask of them tonight is to listen to your patient. Let them be partners in their care. Respect that while they may not have a medical degree - they are the experts in their own body and can help you if you let them.
Be curious. Always.
#curiousity #medicine #healthcare #misdiagnosis #gaslighting #believepatients #believewomen #chronicillness #zebra #EDS #ehlersdanlossyndrome #pots #mcas #DysautonomiaAwarenessMonth #Dysautonomia #ableism #disability #disabled #misogyny
