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Reminds me of this mental disorder where the diagnosis is to draw a round clock and fill in the numbers.

Those with the disorder, draw all the numbers on one side of the clock. They see it as a round clock....

It also reminds me of my friend's girlfriend. She has body dysmorphia disorder. She is skinny but draws herself as fat, because that is what she sees in the mirror.

And this is how these artists see the world. Interesting art, but like you said... Fantasy.

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Very interesting article once again. I wouldn't be caught dead with that Picasso in my house though.

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This is fascinating. I’ve been interested in mcgilchrist in relation to autism/Asperger’s traits + ADHD. It’s an interesting way of looking at the trans issue too. My very high IQ ASD son who had echolalia (which demonstrates learning extremely efficiently from a decontextualised left brain) and now is trans, which I see as a kind of developmental echolalia of puberty. He is also now a musician creating very mechanical sounding music. So much in this! And there is also a corresponding spectrum of right brain dominant females becoming more prone to and suffering mental illness due to difficulty with left brain processes dominating life.

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