I hate when I make a comment that someone sees as random and they ask, “Haha, where did that come from?”
Do you really want to know the series of internal associations and mental events that led me from one idea to another? I’m guessing not so much.
What I think: “The color of your nail polish reminded me of iridescent beetle wings, which reminded me of a dress made for an 1888 production of Macbeth, onto which over a thousand jewel beetle wings were sewn. I purchased a green sequined dress and wore it to a New Year’s Party in Ohio, in honor of the number 7, the digit I find most pleasing. I associate the number 7 and its multiples as elegant and well-dressed. I always pictured a human version of the number 7 as having flapper hair with carefully waxed curls. Waxed curls remind me of Denise Crosby’s hairstyle in an episode of Star Trek I recently re-watched and then caused me to go on another long rant about how we depict robots in media. Robots remind me of the book I am reading, in which an AI must adjust to being housed in a gynoid body and passing as human. To do this, she eats to keep up pretenses and because she enjoys it. Eating despite not needing to reminds me that I need to eat and forget to because I don’t recognize hunger. Impaired hunger symbols may be due to a lack of beneficial gut bacteria. I am attempting to propogate more gut bacteria through consuming probiotic food like yoghurt and smoothie mixes. I have some in my refrigerator at home, but I need to ensure that they are not expired and that nothing in my kitchen is growing mold. Mold has many surprising uses – the discovery of penicillin and the advancement of medicine surely influenced the last century in immeasurably important ways. The last century has been full of evil as well as progress, however – nuclear weapons are evidence of that! There is strange symmetry to think that radiotrophic mold has apparently been discovered at the Chernobyl site. When I first learned this, I could not contain my excitement and shared this information with a customer service representative with my bank on the phone. He was informed and excited about this topic as well, and we had a wonderful conversation about it entirely unrelated to banking. I hope this diversion did not get him into trouble – I do not know what is or is not considered acceptable interaction with customers. I need to visit my bank soon and withdraw cash so I can pay Hope my share of the hotel bill next month. It’s unfortunate that we were not able to secure the AirB&B they used last year, but the hotel should be acceptable so long as it is clean. It may appear clean, but I bet there is a whole horrifying world of organic residue invisible to the naked eye…”
What I say out loud: “Did you know that blood doesn’t naturally fluoresce? It will not show up under a blacklight like in the movies. Real forensic investigators detect bloodstains by spraying chemicals like Luminol, which react with the iron in hemoglobin and cause the bloodstains to glow.“
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This is me, though it’s not linear: each step has multiple branches and it can veeeerry quickly get out of hand. Probably why ADHD folk can be excellent at problem solving (just run through EVERY POSSIBILE PATH in your head) and also paralysed with inaction at the simplest things (just run through EVERY POSSIBLE THING in your head).