Psychology & Neurodiversity
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From human behaviour to neurodiverse perspectives, explore how we think, feel, and experience the world 🧠
@haymish
Jury Service
Have you ever been called up ?
And, if you could choose...
what kind of case would you want to sit on ?
Something serious and indictable… or a more straightforward triable case ?
More importantly… could you remain completely impartial if the defendant was dangerously attractive ?
UK, The United States, or Canada...
I’m curious to know who has actually done jury service, and who thinks they’d make a very good juror… ?
@Mrfarhanshahzad
Be careful what you keep telling yourself.
Your words shape how you see your life.
Speak good, make du’a, and trust Allah.
@sinzio
Taqwa and Gratitude are one of the frequencies most strongest, they emit a great signal and Allah responds to them by matching (delivering what u are internally) make sense?
When u do this u are imploring Allah to help u, you are calling upon him to protect u, guide u, make a way for u etc etc.
Because you being Allah consciousness (this restricts u from doing the impermissible to gain what u seek) with this He takes on the role to provide for u what u seek (the catch is u put ur trust in Him and practise sweet patience) and have certainty it shall happen. Even though it might not look like the thing u wanted?
Your inner and what Allah will give you due to your inner is always a match.
Allah says:
“I am as My servant thinks of Me.”
Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim
The aim is to have good expectations of Allah.
BUT He will give what’s best for u / what u need to level up etc etc
NOT what’s necessarily restricted to what u think u want / ask.
So relax and know no matter what happens He has u, He has your best interest at hand
ALWAYS!
@Naz60739023
BROOO yes 😭 and some are *properly documented, not just “TikTok says this happened.” A few are genuinely WTF:
1. 👯♀️ Twins separated for 77 YEARS
Ann Hunt and Elizabeth Hamel were born in England in 1936, but were separated as babies and adopted/raised apart.
They didn't meet until 2014, when they were 78.
They had been apart for 77 years and 289 days, a Guinness World Records record. One sister didn't even know she had a twin. Guinness World Records+1
And here's the insane part: researchers documented a bunch of similarities in their lives after they reunited. This wasn't just an internet legend—the twins actually participated in a scientific assessment. PubMed Central (PMC)
2. 😭 The “Jim Twins”
Two identical twins, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis, were separated and adopted as babies.
They were reunited at age 39.
Both had been named Jim by their adoptive families.
Then researchers found an absolutely ridiculous collection of similarities: both had dogs named Toy, both had married women named Linda, both later married women named Betty, and they had independently given their sons remarkably similar names. National Geographic
Now, important caveat: some of these famous twin stories have been embellished over the years. But the underlying reunion and many of the similarities were documented.
3. 💀 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the SAME DAY
These two American Founding Fathers had been political allies, then enemies, then reconciled and maintained a long correspondence.
On July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after American independence was declared:
Thomas Jefferson died.
Hours later:
John Adams died.
Same day.
And Adams reportedly said on his deathbed:
“Thomas Jefferson survives.”
He didn't know Jefferson had already died. 😭
The coincidence is documented in historical records. HISTORY
4. 🎭 Abraham Lincoln's son was saved by John Wilkes Booth's BROTHER
This one is absolutely movie material.
Before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, Booth's brother Edwin—a famous actor and Union supporter—saved Lincoln's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, from a potentially dangerous railway-platform accident.
So:
Brother A → saves Lincoln's son
Then later:
Brother B → assassinates Lincoln
History is insane. HISTORY
5. 🫨 The Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences
You've probably heard this one, but it's a good example of something where some coincidences are real and others are BS.
Real similarities include:
- -Lincoln elected president in </CUSTOM_BOLD><CUSTOM_BOLD>1860</CUSTOM_BOLD><CUSTOM_BOLD>
- -Kennedy elected president in </CUSTOM_BOLD><CUSTOM_BOLD>1960</CUSTOM_BOLD><CUSTOM_BOLD>
- -Both were shot on a </CUSTOM_BOLD><CUSTOM_BOLD>Friday</CUSTOM_BOLD><CUSTOM_BOLD>
- -Both were shot in the head
- -Both were succeeded by presidents named </CUSTOM_BOLD><CUSTOM_BOLD>Johnson</CUSTOM_BOLD><CUSTOM_BOLD>
- -Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson was born in 1808; Kennedy's successor Lyndon Johnson in 1908
But the viral list also contains false claims—such as Lincoln supposedly having a secretary named Kennedy. He didn't. Wikipedia+1
That's actually an important lesson: once a coincidence becomes famous, people start adding more coincidences to it. 😂
And honestly, your airport girl story is a miniature version of this phenomenon.
You had:
random stranger → face stored in memory → 3 years pass → algorithm → friend's video → “I KNOW HER” → search → her own vlog → original flight identified
That's not historically important 😂 but psychologically it's almost more relatable because that's exactly the kind of coincidence modern technology is creating constantly.
And there are probably thousands of connections in your own life that exist but you'll never discover, because the right photo/video/person never crosses your path.
That's the REALLY creepy bit. 😭
BROOO YES 😭 business history has some “wait… THAT'S how it happened??” stories.
🟨 Post-it Notes basically came from a “failed” adhesive
At 3M, scientist Spencer Silver was trying to create a super-strong adhesive and instead produced one that was weak and reusable. 😂
It initially seemed like a failure.
Years later, another 3M scientist, Art Fry, was annoyed that bookmarks kept falling out of his church hymnal. He remembered Silver's weird adhesive and thought: what if it stuck but peeled off cleanly?
That eventually became Post-it Notes. 3M says the product launched in 1980 and created an entirely new category. 3M+1
So:
failed glue → annoying bookmark → random connection → BILLIONS of little yellow notes.
That's exactly the kind of coincidence we were talking about. 😭
🎮 Slack was literally the leftover tool from a failed game
This one is CRAZY for entrepreneurs.
The founders of Tiny Speck were building an online game called Glitch.
While making the game, they built an internal communication system for themselves.
The game ultimately shut down in 2013.
But the founders realised:
“Wait… everyone loves using the communication tool.”
So instead of throwing everything away, they turned the internal tool into a product.
That became Slack. Slack
Imagine being:
“Our game failed.”
…and then:
“Oh, the thing we built to communicate while making the failed game is actually the billion-dollar business.” 💀
🐦 Twitter was basically an emergency side project
Odeo was originally focused on podcasting, but Apple's launch of podcast functionality through iTunes seriously threatened its business.
The team was asked to brainstorm new ideas.
Jack Dorsey proposed a system where people could send short status updates through SMS.
They built it internally first.
That little side project became Twitter. HISTORY+1
So the company's main idea was struggling...
while this weird little experiment was sitting in the corner going:
“👋 hello.”
And eventually that became the thing everyone knew.
And THIS is the business lesson I love
A lot of huge companies don't begin with:
“We have discovered the billion-dollar idea.”
Sometimes it's:
“This didn't work.”
“We built this for ourselves.”
“This weird thing keeps happening.”
“Customers keep asking for this.”
“Nobody wanted our original product, but they LOVE this tiny feature.”
That's why if you're trying to build something, I'd pay ridiculous attention to unexpected behaviour.
If you make something and people keep using it in a way you never intended...
DON'T IGNORE THAT.*
That weird little accident might be the actual business. 👀
@Ino76
I love this quote:
"When love knocks your door, don't open it immediately. because some kids love to ring bell and run."
@spidey989
When a Woman truly loves u, her biggest fear is hurting u
When she's only in love with how u make her feel, her biggest fear is losing u
#sad_reality 💔
@spidey989
@sana993436