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From: cj
, 4 months, post #1 |
Growing up as a young weed in the vast prairie lands in the middle
of North America in the years between Woodstock and Lollapalooza,
many things influenced how... and more importantly what
I learned. I could almost be labeled a typical Gen-X American
Boy... well, if I was normal, much less typical. Over the years,
I've often been curious about many things -- And there are many
times that I've even touched the edge of the thoughts that have
been recently etching... perhaps burning their mark into my brain.
I'm sure that there are a few of us who not only wonder what it
would be like to the live the life of another/as a different person
(or species, or... well you get the idea). While "magically"
knowing exactly what you need to know to function "normally" in the
world as that different entity, is certainly helpful in certain
stories, it seems almost... lazy, and like less of a
fully-immersive experience.
Before I had to pause my involvement here (and elsewhere), I had
even tried to think through what it would be like to have to learn
how to be that new person (used very loosely).
Recently though... I wondered what it would really be like if I was
suddenly TF'd or swapped or even medically transplanted to a new
body. What would it take to learn how to act/behave "normally"...
what new things would I have to learn that I never had to learn in
this body/experience I've lived?
For those thinkers and dreamers out there...
What if any of the variables of your life/learning had been
different?
For each decade, and each culture/region - how are children
raised/taught differently based on societal gender norms?
When do/did we learn what know about our own gender, our own
bodies?
How do boys/girls know/learn what (mostly) only their same-gendered
peers know?
Also... where do the outliers fall in this?
Where do the strange differences in how men/women treat the same
subject come from?
How have these similarities and differences differed vary across
different cultures, and throughout time?
For trans-speices TFs... what would it be like to acclimate to
walking on more than two legs, or to dealing with a tail or long
ears? And what about the differences in vision, spectrum/color, eye
and ear positions, sounds?
For those with a robotic/android/cyborg bend... How would you deal
with difference in sensory inputs? What would you do if your
non-organic parts had a lower-level firmware/programming that you
couldn't bypass?
What about differences in size, structure, mechanics, geometry,
agility, speed, strength, etc?
How long would it take to adapt to your new body... your new
societal norms... your new environment... your new life?
How would you learn what you need to know? How long would it take?
If only we could safely and comfortably experience things like
this. I could spend several lifetimes learning all the similarities
and differences... and I likely would do so willingly if it was
possible.
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From: guest
, 4 months, post #2 |
Look who's back! CJ is here! What a day!
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From: cj
, 4 months, post #3 |
I'm just passing through for a short while... well, that's all I
have available for now anyhow. Only time will tell.
Thanks for the warm welcome.
I'd love to say that I missed you all... but the chaos of life has
been keeping my mind sharply focused on the doldrums of trying to
claw out a bit more than survival in a cruel reality. That said...
I'm "okay". Surviving. Certainly could be worse.
I don't anticipate having too much time to visit anytime soon --
but I'm happy to take what I can get these days. :-)
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