r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '19

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u/wertperch A lot of IT is just not being stupid. Dec 18 '19

The inability to connect cause and effect amazes me. Five-year-olds have that figured out. Heck, I bet there are cats who've got that down.

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u/alex_moose Dec 19 '19

The inability to connect cause and effect amazes me. Five-year-olds have that figured out.

It's actually a key developmental milestone that some people never really achieve. The problem is greater with kids who grow up in abusive homes.

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u/Uffda01 Did you test it in DEV first? Dec 19 '19

Is that because the cause/effect loop is broken or unstable and unreliable in an abusive home?

For example: kid was well behaved, still abused; then kid not behaved, no abuse etc with no steady cause/effect between trigger and abuse?

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u/alex_moose Dec 19 '19

I don't know, but your theory makes excellent sense.

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u/bungiefan_AK Dec 19 '19

It's true. You get training on this in some states when prepping to be a foster or adoptive parent. Childhood abuse rewires the brain in all sorts of weird ways that cause common sense and normal milestones to break or be overridden by impulses without ability to control them.