- alexithymia (x)
- alpenglow (x)
- aphantasia (x)
- ball lightning (x)
- bell's palsy (x)
- breast tax??? (!!!)
- The Breast Tax was a tax imposed on the lower caste (Shudra) and untouchable (Dalit) Hindu women by the Kingdom of Tranvancore (in present-day Kerala state of India) if they wanted to cover their breasts in public, until 1924. The lower caste and untouchable women were expected to pay the government a tax on their breasts, as soon as they started developing breasts.
- breeching (x)
- cauliflower ear (x)
- charcoal method of suicide (x)
- childless hundred days (x)
- circumzenithal arc (x)
- covert incest (x)
- cyclopia (x)
- earth's shadow (x)
- flint corn (x)
- fugue state (x)
- dissociative fugue is a dissociative disorder and a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality. the state can last days, months or longer. dissociative fugue usually involves unplanned travel or wandering and is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity.
- golden rule (x)
- gropecunt lane (x)
- illeism (x)
- referring to yourself or someone referring to themselves in the third person, rather than first person.
- irrumatio (x)
- l'iinconnue de la seine (x)
- L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The Unknown Woman of the Seine) was an unidentified young woman whose putative death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. Her visage inspired numerous literary works.
- liminal spaces (x)
- A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place. The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease.
- pet cloning (x)
- shallow water blackout (x)
- tall poppy syndrome (x)
jul 27 2019 ∞
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