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   Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 04:56:53 JST Kim Scheinberg

   When my oldest was 10, we unexpectedly had to put our cat to sleep. Through tears kid wailed, "Hermes, you were the best cat. I will never ever forget you. Ever. <pause> Unless I get amnesia!"

   I think about this story often, about neurodivergence and what it means to be unable to lie to your dying cat

   And how if it were some *other* kid's dying cat, and that kid made the same declaration without the disclaimer, my kid would feel compelled to correct them, without malice but at terrible cost

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     mbpaz (mbpaz@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 06:50:50 JST mbpaz

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     @kims now imagine your kid, at adult age, called as an expert to declare in front of a jury. Replying to questions like "Did A cause B?" "Is this the same X that...?".

     Been there. Trained hard to behave as expected.