It reminded me of "Commisurotomy, Consciousness, and Unity of Mind" by Charles Marks Fascinating book on the impact this surgery would have on people's sense of identity (i.e., your brain was occupied by two senses of identity for a short period of time.)

Hawaii is part of the continent known as Oceania, which has 4 sub continents. Hawaii is the only US state that is not part of North America. Hawaii is Politically North American, but not geographically

I’m just telling u there is a Russian Fort in a Hawaii , which is part of North America. 🤷‍♂️

you can also get the same effect by keeping one eye closed until you're back in the dark, eyepatches were more practical back then tho since they went on deck so often

Part of the South Island of New Zealand is on the Pacific Plate - do you consider New Zealand to be part of North America?

I wanted to change mine because it would be easier to spell, people wouldn't mess it up, and I don't identify much with my maiden name. But my husband and I have the same first name.. And he's well known in the community, we are in similar professional circles, so I opted to keep my maiden name.

Had my maiden name been easy I would have kept it regardless if we had the same first name or not.

And interestingly enough, my husbands last name is actually his mothers Maiden name. My husbands brother took their Dad's last name.

My husband and I have the same first name. It is gender neutral, but traditionally was a masculine name. We married in October 2022. I really wanted to take his last name because mine is long, German, and annoying and his is easy as pie.. BUT he is well known in our community, and we are in the same professional circles so I opted to not take his last name to avoid a case of mistaken identity. ~sigh~

I cannot imagine what it would be like to be Taylor's wife. Absolute madness. Or maybe they don't have to worry about it because they have money and people to do things for them - so if the IRS or some other important entity confuses their identities, they don't have to worry about the repercussions. It's the legal crap I worry about.

In cases of severe epilepsy when medication doesn't help they will often sever the corpus callosum to help prevent seizure activity.

No idea. Don’t watch TV.

No, Hawaii is not considered part of North America...

It’s considered part of North America because it’s on the Pacific plate . 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

North America is a continent!

Hawaii is islands in the pacific which happen to be part of the USA.

That's a silly first name to be frank. He might as well call himself Sailor or Postman.

What about Fort Elizabeth in Hawaii? That’s further south . Hawaii is considered to be in North America .

That's the book that gets namechecked in the one of the first Westworld episodes, yeah?

Yes. Probably the reason for the increase. Weird that I had to scroll so far to find this.

Hmmm. What an interesting time to post this

Hey mine is permanently under developed! I’ve struggled with impulse decision making & math is a doozy. Also I’m 4 standard deviations away from the norm for fine-motor skills in my left hand 😂

Yeah, I worked for the 2020 Census as an enumerator and we were required to put down whatever someone identified as. There were quite a few people that said to me things along the lines of “well, I think I have a Native American ancestor” and would then tell me to put down Native American in addition to white. I had people tell me clearly bullshit answers to my questions, and I had to put down whatever they claimed, those were the rules. I wouldn’t doubt if these numbers have been skewed by things like that.

Edit: also as someone who worked for the 2020 census, it would be wise to take the stats that come out of it with a grain of salt. There were a myriad of issues with counting that year, it was a nightmare.

I went to high school with her, she was then at least.

I was born with "corpus callosum agenesia", meaning that while I got it, it never developed, per my meurologist, IIRC, and all I got was partial epilepsy. I suspect that some of my "everyman-tool handling" skills, complete inability to do complex math, (I despise both maths and doing handywork, so that may explain a bit...),and unstoppable daydreaming might have to do with it, but.. I'm no PhD.

I know what I'm doing if I ever win Powerball.

Stay away from Substance D!

Fun fact, pirate eye patches weren't to cover open eye sockets (though I'm sure that was a decent secondary use)

Eye patches were commonly used by sailors to keep one eye adjusted to dark vision above deck, so when they went below deck they woudn't have to wait for night vision.

I did know someone who dated only Maddies (as far as I could tell). Maybe 5 in a row? His name unfortunately was not Matt lmao