As a bipolar epileptic, I got this phrase a lot.
I wasn’t an old soul, I was severely depressed and suicidal.
I think this ignores that some children are more pensieve and reflexive…
Yeah, I was super short on serotonin but no one would of ever called me an old soul as a child. My ADHD keeps me running my mouth and being super irritating with people around. I only get quiet and reflect on my own mortality and pointlessness of all life once they walk away and I’m left with my own loud constant inner monologue.
Those of use blessed with the loud, fast constant sadness. We wish we could be called an old soul. RIP Robin Williams.
Is serotonin just the placeholder word to use when you have no understanding of neurotransmitters? Seriously, serotonin has like a hundred purposes in the body, what are they trying to refer to?
Yeah, I don’t usually like arguing semantics but the serotonin thing grinds my gears since there’s so many causes and treatments to depression and serotonin isn’t even involved in many situations.
Us old folk heard that depression was because of low serotonin years ago, and the idea stuck like old gum to the underside of a desk. Yeah, it could be scrapped off, but since we don’t ever see the bottom of the desk, why would we put in the effort. As a side note, that you for you comment as a reminder that I need to see what new treatments to depression do and look into what we have discovered in the last 20 years…
For me it really was „so you’re autistic and your parents cant be bothered to get you diagnosed“.
Oh shit I tried so hard to hide my depression as a kid. Guess I was super bad at it lol.
