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		edejong on Dec 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (... I've noticed the same things! The same happens when I improvise piano. In addition, I cannot attach emotionally (empathy) to others for close to an hour.

benologist on Dec 29, 2019 [–]

I'm bilingual until I've been drowning in code all day, then I need a half-hour or my fluency is just gone and I struggle to understand my own family.

TeMPOraL on Dec 30, 2019 | [–]

In my case, I have no problem parsing what my family is saying; it simply goes straight to /dev/null. I just can't engage with it.

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