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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The ACE test is convenient and that makes it useful. It validates people’s
by brudgers 2y ago
All happy families are alike;
each unhappy family is unhappy
in its own way.
The ACE test is convenient and that makes it useful. It validates people’s experiences and that makes it a good thing.
I have a pretty clear idea of how and why my childhood was the way it was. I could stretch and analog my lived experiences to fit the questions.
Gifted has been bullshit in the water where I swim for a long time. Invisible. Dissolved. Gifted was a reason to be othered. Formally. Informally. By institutions, neighbors, family.
The ACE questions were useful to me this morning. As a starting point. I’d forgotten how being labeled gifted actually felt. Worse things have happened to other people. I am not competing. Good luck.
- bookofjoe 2y agoTolstoy, "Anna Karenina" (1873)
- brudgers 2y agoMore relevant to my comment,the anna karenina principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
- bookofjoe 2y agoThis is the first I've ever heard of the principle: excellent stuff.
- brudgers 2y agoI first heard the idea in a video where Thiel used the quote. I think it was a YC Dtartup School video on YouTube. Here the quote for the principle hewed closer to the subject than ordinarily. Tolstoy’s “cheery white crosses” probably deserves its own principle too.