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Old 09-25-2018, 09:49 AM   #34 (permalink)
DJ Trashy
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What Keith describes about having those weird 'what if' thoughts. Everyone has them. Your brain (for some strange reason) makes them pop up now and then. It likes imagining scenarios. You see one of those crumple zone things with barrels full of sand, usually in front of cement barriers or bridge supports. Your brain knows what they are for, and imagines what it must be like to run into one. Then you think for a split second what it would be like if you just turned the steering wheel ever so slightly....

Fortunately there's another part of the brain up front that is in charge of monitoring these thoughts. It's the adult in the room. It reaches out and slaps that thought silly and restores order. All of this occurs in about 1/10th of a second. 99.9% of people never follow through on stupid thoughts like this.

Unfortunately if you have a brain disease or injury, or ADHD, that part of the brain doesn't fully function. You lack some impulse control. A thought comes into your brain, and before the adult can slap anything you're already acting on the stupid thought. This is how people with no particular childhood trauma and with a pretty nice home life growing up can still end up fucking up their lives.

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