We found a number of significant relationships between OS and synaesthesia. Firstly, we found that the romantic affections of OS individuals towards objects do appear to be driven, at least in part, by object-personification synaesthesia. This was revealed by the fact that OS individuals do tend to sense personality traits in their object-partners, and that these show the synaesthetic hallmark of consistency-over-time (i.e. the OS group were significantly more consistent compared to controls when assigning personalities to inanimate objects). We propose that synaesthetic personalities and genders might increase the anthropomorphic qualities of inanimate objects which could facilitate the development of intimate and romantic feelings over time. Finally, OS was also associated with a broader synaesthetic phenotype in showing significantly elevated rates of two other types of synaesthesia, grapheme-personification synaesthesia and grapheme-colour synaesthesia.
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An important methodological consideration is the fact that our OS participants were recruited from forums online. We took this approach because it would have been difficult to achieve in-person testing given that OS is rare, internationally distributed, and without any regular real-world meeting place (as far as we are aware). More importantly, our participants were reassured by the protection of anonymity, meaning that in-person testing would inevitably have reduced sample size. Importantly, one might wish to argue that recruiting from online platforms could disproportionally attract people with social difficulties (and thereby elevate AQ scores). However, we point out that the OS group scored higher than controls across all factors of the AQ (Social skills, Attention-switching, Attention-to-detail, Communication, and Imagination) suggesting that our results are not skewed by the social traits of people drawn to online forums. Relatedly, one might wish to argue that rates of autism may be a priori higher on such forums, but we point out that rates of diagnosed autism in OS individuals was almost 40%, a prevalence that is hard to explain away as the result of our online recruitment methods.
Elitism endorses the exclusion of large numbers of people, and that is exactly what our large regional galleries and the people who run them are doing. It would be laughable if it were not so outrageously discriminatory. Our supposedly progressive and open-minded municipal art world is in reality a narrow, self-aggrandising bunch of judgmental custodians, whose disregard for the taste and divergent cultural values of the majority is evident in their dismal visitor numbers.
Apostrophe often involves the speaker or writer addressing an inanimate object or abstract idea. In doing so, the speaker or writer will often impart to the object human characteristics. The object, in other words, gets personified. Take these two lines from William Wordsworth's "Prelude":
The works of Romantic poets of the nineteenth century, who were steeped in Greek poetry and myth, are also filled with apostrophe. Several of John Keats' odes, in particular, address their subjects directly. In "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Keats speaks to a beautiful ancient vase, addressing it as a bride, a child, and a historian, and also as a kind of Muse, who, if it could speak, would write more eloquently than Keats himself:
David Lewis famously propounded the doctrine of UnrestrictedComposition: that is, any combination of things in the worldconstitutes a further thing (e.g., 1986, 211). So my left foot and anyarbitrary stone at the bottom of the sea constitutes an object, thoughan object of no descriptive or explanatory interest. In the oppositecorner, Peter van Inwagen (1990) denied that there was any such thingas composition, at least for inanimate material objects.
I experience this! Today I was looking for an antique lamp. The ones I found I liked were always a set of two. Even though priced separately, I could not buy one and separate the pair. I was afraid it would hurt the lamps feelings. Glad to know I am not alone in this.
I do not believe I am on the autism spectrum, nor have I ever been formally diagnosed with OCD (but I have my doubts on that), but I feel a connection to inanimate objects as well. Like your story about the car, I would probably have the exact same feeling.
I have experienced similar feelings towards soft toys and inanimate objects and still have these feelings occasionally and relate to the sadness.I experienced childhood trauma and abandonment and bullying and found comfort and safety in the objects they made me feel safe and unthreatened and I was very sad when they were thrown away or lost.I do have OCD and PTSD but I have not been diagnosed with Autism but I have felt at times that I am on the spectrum.I have worked in an Autistic school many years ago and found myself relating strongly to some behaviour displayed by the students. I am now 50 and still experience these feelings.I recently did some inner child work and bought a beautiful bear and we also have a stuffed pug for a door stop and sometimes find myself imagining they have feelings which again brings up sadness in me.I think this may relate back to my childhood feelings of being frightened and vulnerable and I am projecting these feelings onto these objects.I still have the bear and the stuffed dog.Thanks for listening I hope someone relates. N
Maria, i agree that it is human to invest inanimate objects with emotion such as the examples you gave. And i believe that what Steve is talking about is more than cherishing something that brings a sense of nostalgia. It is from my own understanding of reading this that he is speaking of all items. Not just the ones that bring back memories. I have experienced a similar sensation in regards ro personifying objects. My most obvious example would be from not too long ago. I ran into a chair. I realized it was a chair. I got angry at the chair for getting in my way and then later that day i went back to apologize to the chair for running into it and blaming it because i felt guilty about being angry at this chair
hi steve, im really glad i came around this article i am sort of a hoarder and i also give life to inanimate objects i have kept all my stuffed animals ( really wish they were real )since i was little i have a closet full of them and things that i dont need anymore. also an example which happened awhile ago and which i thought was weird was when i was eating i became full , and couldnt finish my food i felt really bad about the food i was leaving behind to go to the garbage , and started thinking everything that would happen to it. i dont remember this happening when i was younger, it only happened with my toys and stuffed animals which i guess is normal,and i would also always group things , for example DVDs , i would put them in a line and make sure to watch every single one of them at least once, same with video games and CDs but i dont remember caring so much about inanimate things as i do now. I feel as if it only got stronger after my mom died while i was in middle school, i became a little crazy with control too. im 21 now and i cant help but feel sadness for my stuffed animals that are in the closet because i cant sleep with all of them (there are too many, i only sleep with a few), i cant help but feel sadness for the food that doesnt get eaten and gets thrown out or that goes stale, my laptop which is 5 years old and it might die on me at any moment, books that get pushed to the side, even throwing out plastic bags, my clothes that dont get worn (there was a time in middle school when i made a promise to wear every single piece of clothing in my closet from the beginning to the end , i had to write a schedule of when i was wearing each one), and especially when things break , i feel bad for it. i was going to go see a psychologist next semester just to see whats up with that, more for my controlling behavior because that gives me more anxiety than all the other stuff. i am just glad i am not the only one thinking this way.
While there is still some debate among geologists and paloebiologists as to whether or not the extinctions that occurred at the K-T boundary were caused by the impact that formed Chicxulub Crater, it is clear that an impact did occur about 65 million years ago, and that it likely had effects that were global in scale. What would happen if another such event occurred while we humans dominate the surface of the Earth, and what could we as humans do, if anything to prevent such a catastrophic disaster? Human Hazards It should be clear that even if an impact of a large space object did not cause the extinction of humans, the effects would cause a natural disaster of proportions never witnessed by the human race. Here we first look at the chances that such an impact could occur, then look at how we can predict or provide warning of such an event, and finally discuss ways that we might be able to protect ourselves from such an event. Risk - It is estimated that in any given year the odds that you will die from an impact of an asteroid or comet are between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 250,000. The table below shows the odds of dying in the U.S. from various other causes. Although this seems like long odds, you have a about the of dying from other natural disasters likes floods and tornadoes. In fact the odds of dying from an impact event are much better than the odds of winning the Powerball lottery.
But these responses are from nature writers, artists, teachers, and philosophers; I want to know how young people, the language makers among us, react. Our little environmental college is dominated by tree huggers, so if there were ever an audience open to ki, they would be it.
Finally, literary techniques are important to know because they make texts more interesting and more fun to read. If you were to read a novel without knowing any literary devices, chances are you wouldn't be able to detect many of the layers of meaning interwoven into the story via different techniques. 2ff7e9595c
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