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/DisposableTires Dec 20 '19

Actually, yeah. I only recently realized that a large part of my life problems are due to an ingrained habit of assuming that punishment is a default state that is avoided primarily through luck or sometimes by intricate superstition-based rituals.

I let myself have cookies for dinner that day. I think it helped.