Bonus: Gluten-free play-dough!
Oh, hey @MissJinx; I havenβt seen you in a while.
I donβt think it was a stupid question; frankly, itβs not something I find intuitive. I have to stop and think about it. Also, living with someone with allergies makes you more aware of them, since your brain tends to purge knowledge you donβt use. Iβd think itβs a curse - especially since my memory is shit to begin with - except that I know a couple of people with eidetic memories, and that can present its own problems.
I know one guy with an eiditic memory who has a problem with information that he learns wrong the first time. He has to build a sort of linked-list model in his brain for corrections, and then do a sort of very slow O(n) crawl of the list to end up with the right result. So say heβs introduced to you and they say your name is Becky; that gets stored in his memory. Then you correct them and say your name is βSusanneβ, so he makes a βcorrectionβ link. But because someone coughed when you said it, he heard βSusanβ, and that was w what got stored; so he has to make a second correction. From then on, whenever he runs into you he has to go through this βBeckyβ -> βSusanβ -> βSusanneβ process, and he says itβs real slow and can take a couple of seconds, and longer if there are more corrections. That seems a poor trade-off to me for being able to glance at a page and then repeat it back verbatim by reading the picture in his memory.
yes. Celiac disease is usually the one thing we hear people talk about when they canβt eat gluten, so I never thought about alergies with shock response
I admit, I made that assumption when I read βglutenβ, too.
Thing is, back in oelden days, people with these sorts of allergies wouldnβt survive long enough to procreate. Weβre breeding a species of increasingly fragile people - but thatβs what is best about us, IMO: we take care of our weak. With any luck, gene editing will get to the point that it doesnβt matter what genetic defect you were born with; weβll just tailor a cure, and everyone will have a chance.
It surprises me thereβs a non-cyliac gluten allergy; gluten is what allowed us to create agricultural societies - I thought thatβd been bred out long ago.
βBred.β Ah-ha. Ah-ha.