My job has made me into a TBI truther. Brain injuries are devastating to cognition, self-regulation, and a bevy of other health outcomes. It's linked to a zillion bad social outcomes.
Forget about every other factor that determines human development outcomes: forget about genes, IQ, pollution, whatever. All of that shit is easily washed out by one good fall off of a bike. But unlike genes, we can actually do something about protecting brains.
@cosmiccitizen Counterargument: I've hit my head lots, and had at least 2.5 grown-up-labelled concussions.
- Slammed into stone-wall at high speed with toboggan. (Though is contributed to my aura of destiny, since I had an iconic scar on my forehead for >1y.)
- Fell off tree while climbing, landed on back.
- Fell off my bike (xN).
- TV fell on my head.
- (more)
...Not sure why I said "counterargument". I'm decent at abstract thought, but have a mental-illness-load that rivals Jeanne d'Arc.
@cosmiccitizen oh I'm much on board w prioritizing head-injuries more. I was mostly joking by using myself as "counterexample". I'm ~5% that it had a more or less "pivotal" impact on my life.
@rime
>I'm decent at abstract thought
... but we have warrant to infer that you could have been better.
I feel I should just add a little more so that doesn't feel like I'm being curt. Your counterargument seems to indicate that abstract thinking survives head injury, which may be true in a great number of cases, but I think that it's fair to say that there are degrees / extensions of brain health, and it's probably better to be on the "more" side than the "less" side.