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Prefrontal cortex damage can be really weird. I'd really like to see how these different syndromes manifest in an fMRI.
Contextual preface: my own brand of crazy tends to interfere with getting helped by professionals, so I've done a lot of amateur-level neurobiology research on my own, trying to pin it down. An "inability to update priors" does seem to be a component of it, but it seems primarily triggered by emotional intensity.
Anyone who would like to prod me with Science is extremely welcome to do so.
Before I prod any further, what would your preferred outcome be?
In the most abstract? Some way to demonstrate to people (including myself) that I'm a sapient being that deserves respect, and not a worthless, lazy, broken, scary parasite.
More concretely, some mechanistic description of why I've had trouble operating within existing social norms, and why I tend to operate under different base assumptions than others - preferably a description that might suggest methods of interacting with the human world that allows me to maintain my dignity and self-respect, without having to immediately acknowledge my abject worthlessness and helplessness as a unilateral precondition for requesting assistance.
It would be nice if someone could point at a bit of my brain, or a specific pattern of answers on behavioral tests, and say "you follow this descriptive pattern which we've labeled X, whereas most people follow this other descriptive pattern which we've labeled Y. There's a lot of research that shows that X does not interact well with Y", in a way that isn't an obvious attempt to reinforce their own social assumptions against a threatening Other.