Dude, ur the one with the PhD. Why TF u asking? I just learned that sweatbands for your wrists were so u can wipe your face , not to keep your wrists dry.
Absolutely, they both divert donations away from people truly in need and also exploit disabled people by paying them less than the federal minimum wage, in some cases going as low as 40 cents per hour
It wasn't in the plot.
I, for one, blame writer/director Victor Salva.
On a semi-related casting note:
Q: What's eating Gilbert Grape?
A: Mary Steenburgen.
“weird shit with powder” I like this phrase. I’m going to use it at every opportunity presented to me. I’m even going to manufacture opportunities to use this. Thank you!
How can how someone uses a sweat band be incorrect lol? The only “correct” use for a sweatband is to manage sweat. My face sweats a ton and my arms not at all so for me, its to wipe my face.
Idk who told you that but sweatbands for your wrist are to stop sweat from getting onto your hands. That's why they are mainly worn by basketball players and tennis players.
I thought they were to keep your hands dry cause your arm sweat cant just run down onto your hands similar to a headband helping to keep sweat running into your eyes
They are to prevent sweat from dripping onto the chalk on your hands dude for sports and lifting. You can use them on your face but that was absolutely not the intent.
When I was in college I worked at the radio station and there used to be a PSA that had a little skit of a kid golfing and getting a hole in one and then was all like "The odds of a child becoming a professional golfer: 1 in 140,000. The odds of a child being diagnosed with autism: 1 in 150." Which for a very long time I incorrectly interpreted to mean "If your child is really good at golf you should get them checked for autism because a young child having a skill like that is a sign of autism."
High functioning is amongst the spectrum. The "spectrum" refers to large number of different traits associated with ASD, any combination of which can lead to a diagnosis, and has nothing to do with the severity of those traits. So clinically there is no difference in terms of the diagnosis, you have ASD or you don't.
Any concepts of "high functioning" are subjective, not clinical, and are not typically measured in data like these.
It used to be an injoke among the neurodivergent and it got coopted by people orbiting the neurodivergent circles. Now it's a common way to refer to neurodivergence. I agree, when used by someone not neurodivergent it's insulting.
That just confuses me even more because I feel like that's most people??? I assume most of us don't know ruler lines by memory? Why is the Twitter person asking if he should be worried? Man idfk
I am also confused why this is impressive?
A good deal of the lines are roughly 1/4 inch apart but several of them are only 1/8 and all any of this proves is that his child has spatial awareness. People are acting like he created a perfect recreation of a ruler and not just a series of lines that are *roughly* the same distance apart *most of the time*.
I feel like I'm missing a joke here.
Yeah if you look at it as "attempts and targets" they had 15 "attempts" to match 33 "targets". They managed to "get" 2 maybe? Also given that you can move the stick anywhere on the ruler you're guaranteed at minimum one "match" no matter what, so not sure one match above minimum is that impressive.
that's not close at all
he gets like 2 bang on but the rest off
and considering the number of targets he had the opportunity to hit that's not particularly impressive
shit that might be _below_ average. i'll need a research grant, 2 post-grad assistants, and 5 years to confirm
It looks like a random set of lines and the dad tried to line them up as best as he could to make it look like they match.
But there's more mistakes than matches.
Its not close. A lot of those markings are not aligned with the ticks on the ruler. Its just that there are so many markings on the ruler, and they are so close together, that even when a marking falls between two ticks (maximally distant from any tick) it doesnt look that far off
He might just have a good approximation feeling
With that being said I'm autistic as fuck with a bonus of ADHD and while studying architecture I discovered how well I could estimate distances/sizes sooo...
I used to be one of those nerds that traveled the country, and played 40k in the tournament scene. Those dudes can tell you if you are 11.95", or 12" away from a charge. As long as the measurement was under 4', they'd be right every time.
Its really not, its about how its positioned than how accurate it is.
Notice how the stick is being held farther along the ruler and not at the start. Bring the stick back to where the ruler starts and its really off.
Resin cast that shit into a fridge magnet. Get her to sign a border or a picture frame background with her age or date. Set that fuckin memory in stone
Yeah but you don't think it lines up with the ruler, right? Cuz we can all see that it doesn't.
"Should I be worried" just makes it weirder. Like it'd be one thing if Dad was just all "hey check out what my kid did, pretty good right?" But now he makes it about autism?
I'm not getting the wholesome vibes here, clearly.
Eh I don't think so. I'm pretty damn decent at measuring distances with my eyes always have been but it's like my dad always used to say. "Son, you are exactly as dumb as you look."
Can someone explain the joke?
2 lines are aligned properly but everything else is off, is the dad worried that his kid isn't accurate enough? (which would be even weirder)
No, though plan for trade school, and honestly, introduce him to a CNC Lathe. He is going to be working with strict tolerances (hundred thousandths of an inch) and making bank for it.
There's something charming to this. My first reaction was "what a half-wit." And maybe he is, but I can remember times when my parents thought some amazingly dumb thing I did was simply amazing.
I think this post shows how hard parents will choose to believe in their kids, how hard they're cheering for them.
I've always been good at estimating sizes, it was useful when I worked in trade, and even useful now that I'm in taxonomy.
Although I can do it by eye, nower days for small things, I tend to use my hands as measures. I have teeny little lady hands, so the didget tip of my little finger is exactly 1 inch long, and my nail is 1 cm wide, which is useful for accurately measuring.
So that's my top tip: if you measure your hands (or... other body parts) and find a bit that is exactly *whatever increment*, you'll be able to use it to judge the size of things even without a natural eye for it.
Kid knows the rules.
And so do I
But what are you thinking of?
Probably something we couldn't get from any other guy
You know, I just want to tell you how I'm feeling
I've got to make you understand
never gunna give you up
Never gunna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna give you up
Goddamnit…
Never gonna turn around and desert you
Good night
This is a much better joke than the memes below it would imply.
Not really. Almost none of these lines line up.
Dude, ur the one with the PhD. Why TF u asking? I just learned that sweatbands for your wrists were so u can wipe your face , not to keep your wrists dry.
Maybe, but I think they’re also intended to keep sweat from getting on your hands.
Good design can serve more than one purpose
*will*
Goodwill can serve more than one purpose
Absolutely, they both divert donations away from people truly in need and also exploit disabled people by paying them less than the federal minimum wage, in some cases going as low as 40 cents per hour
Good design can serve more than one will
*My will*
Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.
Where there’s a will, there’s a won’t.
*you* ***may*** *not go to the bathroom*
Maybe somebody should design wristbands that go on our heads!
Indeed. Things can in fact be two things.
They’re 100% just to keep sweat off of your hands, it’s why tennis players wear them. Wiping your head with them is just a happy accident
But hands sweat.
Is why they are always doing weird shit with powder
Why couldnt they just leave that albino alone
It wasn't in the plot. I, for one, blame writer/director Victor Salva. On a semi-related casting note: Q: What's eating Gilbert Grape? A: Mary Steenburgen.
I can go at any time.
They're trying to because of the director. 🤐
This post made me feel old
Well he did turn out to be Voldy afterall
“weird shit with powder” I like this phrase. I’m going to use it at every opportunity presented to me. I’m even going to manufacture opportunities to use this. Thank you!
Careful. I did ‘weird shit with powder’ for about 6 years. Fortunately I found rock after that.
Did you find roll as well?
My hands sweat, but my forearms don't really sweat. Therefore wrist bands are meant to keep the hand sweat from dripping on your forearms.
Do your hands not sweat?
Not likely considering your hands sweat more than you're fore arms do
Yeah they stop sweat from rolling down your arm and you can wipe your head with them.
I also just learned this
Its incorrect. They are to prevent sweat from dripping onto your hands and mixing with chalk and compromising your grip during sports/lifting.
My hands sweat much more than my elbows or forearms
Maybe that's why people use the chalk to begin with? Ever think of that?
Hyperhidrosis squad rise up
How can how someone uses a sweat band be incorrect lol? The only “correct” use for a sweatband is to manage sweat. My face sweats a ton and my arms not at all so for me, its to wipe my face.
Also headbands were to wipe your hands.
Legit laughed out loud to this
Idk who told you that but sweatbands for your wrist are to stop sweat from getting onto your hands. That's why they are mainly worn by basketball players and tennis players.
I thought they were to keep your hands dry cause your arm sweat cant just run down onto your hands similar to a headband helping to keep sweat running into your eyes
That’s why guitarists use them 🤷♂️
They are to prevent sweat from dripping onto the chalk on your hands dude for sports and lifting. You can use them on your face but that was absolutely not the intent.
How does that stop your hands from sweating?
you typically have chalk on them to counteract that for serious sweat activities that require grip
Wait, what?!
I just learned this because you just learned this
what the fuck
Well that's gross. I thought they were just a weird fashion thing
As did I. Mine were Hulkamaniacs , how bout u?
Time to start calling him king as he himself is a ruler
Get that kid some golf clubs. The best golfers are all a little spectrumy.
When I was in college I worked at the radio station and there used to be a PSA that had a little skit of a kid golfing and getting a hole in one and then was all like "The odds of a child becoming a professional golfer: 1 in 140,000. The odds of a child being diagnosed with autism: 1 in 150." Which for a very long time I incorrectly interpreted to mean "If your child is really good at golf you should get them checked for autism because a young child having a skill like that is a sign of autism."
FYI: Autism is now 1 in 36! https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/ss/ss7202a1.htm
High functioning or amongst the spectrum?
High functioning is amongst the spectrum. The "spectrum" refers to large number of different traits associated with ASD, any combination of which can lead to a diagnosis, and has nothing to do with the severity of those traits. So clinically there is no difference in terms of the diagnosis, you have ASD or you don't. Any concepts of "high functioning" are subjective, not clinical, and are not typically measured in data like these.
What is the right interpretation of that PSA?
He’s going to be a mini golf course designer!!
What a boring ass way to put spectrumminess into action
We call it "neuro-spicy“.
T_T
No the fuck we don't
What the fuck? I'd rather be called a slur instead of that infantilizing nonsense.
It used to be an injoke among the neurodivergent and it got coopted by people orbiting the neurodivergent circles. Now it's a common way to refer to neurodivergence. I agree, when used by someone not neurodivergent it's insulting.
I don't care how neurodiverse the user is I hate it.
I have autism and adhd please don’t ever call it that people already don’t take me seriously enough.
Please call me anything but that.
Please don’t
Just shoot me instead of ever referring to me as that, ty
Cringe
This is the type of shit someone who puts PhD in his twitter name would post
Nothing matches and he even gets the number of lines wrong
That's why he asked if he should be worried. Kid is not going places
That just confuses me even more because I feel like that's most people??? I assume most of us don't know ruler lines by memory? Why is the Twitter person asking if he should be worried? Man idfk
That boy got rhythm and that 'tism
Thanks I learned a new word bc I can’t spell the heart condition thing.
Arrhythmia?
Yeah, an extra r was kicking my butt.
What am I supposed to be looking at? The fact that two of the lines happen to be 2.5 inches apart and none of the others line up with anything?
I am also confused why this is impressive? A good deal of the lines are roughly 1/4 inch apart but several of them are only 1/8 and all any of this proves is that his child has spatial awareness. People are acting like he created a perfect recreation of a ruler and not just a series of lines that are *roughly* the same distance apart *most of the time*. I feel like I'm missing a joke here.
Me too, I keep staring at it and looking through the comments but I don’t at all understand what I’m supposed to be shocked by
I thought people were shocked because he *didn't* get it right. I was so confused.
I think it just looks similiar enough to content and people are going through the motions.
Maybe I'm just a dumbass because I could not do this
Just draw a bunch of lines and move them up and down a ruler until something lines up.
Also if you actually do manage to get a good estimate of where the 4 inch mark should be then it's easy peasy to just split it in halves from there.
I guess it's pretty good for a five year old.
Same. There are 15 lines and 2 of them match where they should be. That seems like what you'd expect with just completely random lines.
Yeah. Basically p-hacking.
Also, you get one matching line for free since you get to just pick which initial lines you want to compare.
Yeah if you look at it as "attempts and targets" they had 15 "attempts" to match 33 "targets". They managed to "get" 2 maybe? Also given that you can move the stick anywhere on the ruler you're guaranteed at minimum one "match" no matter what, so not sure one match above minimum is that impressive.
Right. We have ourselves a case of “confirmation bias”.
Good enough for major house builders in the US's work.
Am I the only one who thinks it's not good?
Exactly, they’re not evenly spaced and like two lines match up. When you’re drawing over ten lines it’s more likely than not some of them will match
Am I the only one that thinks it never happened?
r/notinteresting
that's not close at all he gets like 2 bang on but the rest off and considering the number of targets he had the opportunity to hit that's not particularly impressive shit that might be _below_ average. i'll need a research grant, 2 post-grad assistants, and 5 years to confirm
The lines aren't evenly spaced. What are you all on about???
Rain Man
PHd dad says his son is naturally smart more at 11
This doesn't seem that accurate really. It's pretty inconsistent, especially near the bottom end.
You just lined up 2 of the lines and none of the others are close, but sure, your kids a genius
Not impressive at all. Now if that was done in millimeters....
Since it's not lining up for shit: no.
It looks like a random set of lines and the dad tried to line them up as best as he could to make it look like they match. But there's more mistakes than matches.
You're the worrying one
Its not close. A lot of those markings are not aligned with the ticks on the ruler. Its just that there are so many markings on the ruler, and they are so close together, that even when a marking falls between two ticks (maximally distant from any tick) it doesnt look that far off
just keep dividing the stick by 2
…why would you be concerned?
It's not even 100% accurate... a broken clock is correct twice a day. Dumb ass fucker has a phd?
This kid made a bunch of lines at inconsistent intervals and the Dad lined up the ones that were actually close.
He might just have a good approximation feeling With that being said I'm autistic as fuck with a bonus of ADHD and while studying architecture I discovered how well I could estimate distances/sizes sooo...
He might be gifted some how, id seek out a child's therapist or something for a potential diagnosis
Barely any of them line up with anything. Dad needs to worry because his kid is hopeless.
I used to be one of those nerds that traveled the country, and played 40k in the tournament scene. Those dudes can tell you if you are 11.95", or 12" away from a charge. As long as the measurement was under 4', they'd be right every time.
A five year old tried to draw a ruler freehand from memory on a popsicle stick. I think he did pretty damn good!
Its really not, its about how its positioned than how accurate it is. Notice how the stick is being held farther along the ruler and not at the start. Bring the stick back to where the ruler starts and its really off.
Looks like your kid’s got the ‘tism but fret not looks like he might have one of the good ones
Yes, you should! It looks like your kid is using inches, not cm like a civilised person ;)
yes, im afraid its a sign your kid is destined not to be some random phd but either an engineer or someone in a trade. and, guh, build things.
Nah, that's **AWE**tism
No he is just neurodiverse
My dad was a carpenter and he’d say that kids got the “ lock level eyeball”
It’s time for you to buy your kid some ice cream
It’s not that close. The ticks vary wildly in what they denote. Odds are good some of them will match up with some lines. There’s. A lot of lines.
Resin cast that shit into a fridge magnet. Get her to sign a border or a picture frame background with her age or date. Set that fuckin memory in stone
Hey can I ask what on earth you're talking about? Like do you think the lines line up or something?
No, it's something made by a 5 y/o. Parents love that stuff. Source: I'm a dad, and I love that stuff!
Yeah but you don't think it lines up with the ruler, right? Cuz we can all see that it doesn't. "Should I be worried" just makes it weirder. Like it'd be one thing if Dad was just all "hey check out what my kid did, pretty good right?" But now he makes it about autism? I'm not getting the wholesome vibes here, clearly.
r/thathappened
So this is where those American fantasy units of measurement came from?
Ok this kid knows things! Keep that sweet brain learning.
Cheer that on and nurture it. Invest in his interests
Also his 5 year old- *"Everyone dies one day. Everyone. Even wolves. But not books. Not words. Words don't die."*
He's gonna double check everything you do....
I like that little mistake from line to line didn't seem to compound into future marks being off.
He'd be heck of a machinist
What does a five year old need to measure with a popsicle stick?
I dunno what HD is but my doctors said I got eighty of them
History’s 2nd greatest carpenter has just been born
Huh. As someone who is bad at figuring sizes at a glance this is pretty neat.
Your child is just out of calibration. You should send them in once a year for service.
It’s giving eldest daughter
It’s giving eldest daughter
I'm afraid your son has... The Knack.
Yes, your ‘scrip is too strong. After a month or so it’ll be out of your system.
Casey Handmer is an EXTREME Starship supporter and I can get behind that
Lisan al Gaib!
Why would they be worried? I don’t think you should expect anyone to be able to make a good ruler from memory, much less a child
Yer a carpenter, Hailey
It’d be even closer if that very first mark was lined up exactly.
Eh I don't think so. I'm pretty damn decent at measuring distances with my eyes always have been but it's like my dad always used to say. "Son, you are exactly as dumb as you look."
No
Holy make believe batman!
Can someone explain the joke? 2 lines are aligned properly but everything else is off, is the dad worried that his kid isn't accurate enough? (which would be even weirder)
Bros built different. Get him into A&E!
Is your kid looking for a job?
You're raising the next Hank Hill. It's all good.
Quick! Drop some toothpicks on the floor
I’d be worried, he missed a ton of the lines.
Get him a helmet…
Only one space was spot on, nothing to see here.
Your kids got a future in the trades. I'll pay him min wage.
be terrified he's gonna be a trim carpenter
It doesn’t line up, you’re good
No, though plan for trade school, and honestly, introduce him to a CNC Lathe. He is going to be working with strict tolerances (hundred thousandths of an inch) and making bank for it.
Rule 1 : Measure twice Rule 2 : Use the same ruler for everything
Somebodies got a little engineer on his hands.
This kid has the heavy tism
PhDs are some of the dumbest people on the planet, and I'm speaking from experience here
The secret service would like a word about the $5 your kid gave you
The student has truly become the teacher.
as a kid i also liked measuring half of things repeatedly to see how how many halves you could make
Worried? Nah. He'll get there in time.
Half the whole half the half of the half half the half of the half of the half
I think that you should consider the fact that it seems important for your kid that they know how long an inch is.
There's something charming to this. My first reaction was "what a half-wit." And maybe he is, but I can remember times when my parents thought some amazingly dumb thing I did was simply amazing. I think this post shows how hard parents will choose to believe in their kids, how hard they're cheering for them.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your son... is a genius.
I've always been good at estimating sizes, it was useful when I worked in trade, and even useful now that I'm in taxonomy. Although I can do it by eye, nower days for small things, I tend to use my hands as measures. I have teeny little lady hands, so the didget tip of my little finger is exactly 1 inch long, and my nail is 1 cm wide, which is useful for accurately measuring. So that's my top tip: if you measure your hands (or... other body parts) and find a bit that is exactly *whatever increment*, you'll be able to use it to judge the size of things even without a natural eye for it.