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Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:23 pm
by Paddy
zanger wrote:Paddy wrote: I feel like a hypocrite for saying this, but isn't it kinda obvious neither man's brain nor body were made to be idle?
What does that have to do with attention disorders? It's theorized by some that many of mankind's earlier scientists and inventors had ADD, because they could never just sit down and focus on one singular thing but were constantly looking at different objects and getting distracted by side projects. For example, Albert Einstein, while he was working at the Swiss Patent Office, would daydream during work (resulting in the theory of relativity). Some people think he had ADD. Look at Isaac Newton, the guy invented Calculus, discovered gravity, came up with simple mechanics, attempted to divine alchemy, discovered various properties of light, discovered how temperature transfer works. And that wasn't even his day job. There's no way a normal person could ever have done those things. Leonardo da Vinci is another prime example. An artist who never finished his paintings because he would get preoccupied with inventing random things in his mind like tanks and parachutes.
Don't you see, though. That's not a disorder. That's what we're SUPPOSED to be doing!! All the more reason for me to think 1) ADD is actually a good and beneficial thing when properly utilised and NOT a disorder, 2) I'm really wasting my life here.
It just seems like we've forgotten how to make use of such a "disorder".
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:25 pm
by Alexbond45
I have ADD. Not sure how it's good.
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:28 pm
by Paddy
Alexbond45 wrote:I have ADD. Not sure how it's good.
As the post I quoted suggested, it may be quite possible to make use of it. If you channel that energy in the right direction, you could be a prodigy.
Ah. That's the thing. Direction.
Well... at very least, undirected ADD can be amusing to onlookers.
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:32 pm
by ShadeHaven
Paddy wrote:Alexbond45 wrote:I have ADD. Not sure how it's good.
As the post I quoted suggested, it may be quite possible to make use of it. If you channel that energy in the right direction, you could be a prodigy.
Ah. That's the thing. Direction.
Well... at very least, undirected ADD can be amusing to onlookers.
But at what point is it determined that one has ADD? How is that measured considering there is no such thing as normal?
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:37 pm
by Paddy
ShadeHaven wrote:Paddy wrote:Alexbond45 wrote:I have ADD. Not sure how it's good.
As the post I quoted suggested, it may be quite possible to make use of it. If you channel that energy in the right direction, you could be a prodigy.
Ah. That's the thing. Direction.
Well... at very least, undirected ADD can be amusing to onlookers.
But at what point is it determined that one has ADD? How is that measured considering there is no such thing as normal?
... Hm.
I'm not sure it's something you can measure. It's more a quality than a quantity.
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:47 pm
by Alexbond45
It really depends on how bad of a case it is, I have a pretty bad case, If it's interesting, I'll easily blow the top off, but something boring (IE: Poetry) I'll fall asleep in seconds.
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:21 pm
by zanger
Paddy wrote:Don't you see, though. That's not a disorder. That's what we're SUPPOSED to be doing!! All the more reason for me to think 1) ADD is actually a good and beneficial thing when properly utilised and NOT a disorder, 2) I'm really wasting my life here.
It just seems like we've forgotten how to make use of such a "disorder".
Unless you personally deal with an attention disorder or know someone who does, don't call it "beneficial"
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:33 pm
by Genesis
To me, it'd be deafness or the burn scars.
I like to read and explore too much, so blindness and missing limbs would be too harsh for me. I don't need to hear anything, and (going by how bad Hanako's scars seem to be) they would be the lesser ones to me.
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:30 pm
by Warmie
Alexbond45 wrote:I have ADD. Not sure how it's good.
This. It's really frustrating, especially before you even know you have it.
I'm already nearly half deaf, but I don't think I'd care about losing it completely, if I had to. Though that might also be influenced by my speech problem, making me kind of unwilling to talk. I'd much rather use sign language and plan on learning it anyway next year.
I wouldn't bother about legs either =_=;
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:43 pm
by Sin of my sins
Huh? I can't possibly think of a reason why would anyone want a disability, makes no sense to me whatsoever? Unless one truly wants to empathize with someone with a certain disability that is. Or reap off the benefits..
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:29 pm
by Wander
Sin of my sins wrote:Huh? I can't possibly think of a reason why would anyone want a disability, makes no sense to me whatsoever? Unless one truly wants to empathize with someone with a certain disability that is. Or reap off the benefits..
The topic name is dumb. I think he meant what you would take if you had to.
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:18 pm
by Tim_Servi
If I had to choose, Emi's.
Always wanted sweet robot legs.
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:39 pm
by Hadokant
Actually to tell you the truth
I had hanako's disability when i was younger. If you count it as one =.=
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:35 am
by Nekken
A question for the original poster: if you had finished Hanako's path before starting this thread, would you still have started it?
Re: Which disability would you want?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:35 am
by ShadeHaven
I'm surprised at how many people would choose to lose their legs. True, their function could be replaced but, It's still a part of me that I wouldn't willingly give up.