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Just thought I'd mention this: as a child, I detested praise. (I'm guessing it was too strong a stimulus, along with such things as asymmetry, time being a factor in anything, and a mildly loud noise ceasing.) I wonder how it's affected my overall development.
Incidentally, my childhood dislike of asymmetry led me to invent the Thue-Morse sequence, on the grounds that every pattern ought to be followed by a reversal of that pattern.
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Fascinating. As a child, I also detested praise, and I have always had something bordering on an obsession for symmetry and an aversion to asymmetry.
I hadn't heard of the Thue-Morse sequence until now, but it is quite similar to a sequence I came up with as a child and have tapped out (0 for left hand/foot/leg, 1 for right hand/foot/leg) or silently hummed (or just thought) whenever I was bored or was nervous.
My sequence is:
[0, 1, 1, 0] [1001, 0110, 0110, 1001] [0110 1001 1001 0110, 1001 0110 0110 1001, 1001 0110 0110 1001, 0110 1001 1001 0110] ...
[commas and brackets added to make the pattern obvious]
As a kid, I would routinely get the pattern up into the thousands as I passed the time imagining sounds or lights very quickly going off on either the left (0) or right (1) side.
Every finite subsequence of your sequence is also a subsequence of the Thue-Morse sequence and vice versa. So in a sense, each is a shifted version of the other; it's just that they're shifted infinitely much in a way that's difficult to define.
I spent much of my childhood obsessing over symmetry. At one point I wanted to be a millionaire solely so I could buy a mansion, because I had never seen a symmetrical suburban house.
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