Atypical Scientific Neural Disorder
• Mad scientists suffer from a disease in this world that leads to them becoming – well, mad scientists
• Medically: Atypical Scientific Neural Disorder, with cases ranging from mild to moderate to severe
• Common Parlance: Touched, either Slightly, Somewhat, or Severely
• ASND appears to be a genetic disorder of some kind – it is inheritable from one’s parents
• ASND causes slight brain growth and makes neurons link faster while disrupting brain chemistry – basically, it increases one’s ability to learn and spot the ways that the laws of nature can be bent, but also drives one crazy
• The genes that carry ASND lie dormant in most people: 60% with the disorder never show signs or symptoms
• ASND only visible in a fraction of the population, as 50% of those who do manifest the disease end up killing themselves when it first goes active; the majority of the ones who make it are mild to moderate cases
• Signs of possible ASND:
-Extremely vivid dreams
-Lucid dreaming
-Strong inclination toward some form of scientific study, despite possible conflicting personality traits
-Tendency to fidget while at rest
-Prone to laughing in inappropriate situations
-General awkwardness socially
• Not all affected show all (or any) signs, and not all signs are sure indicators that someone is affected
• Most affected manifest the disease during the teenage years, the most common age range being from fifteen to seventeen
• Manifesting as a child or adult isn’t unheard of, but the chances are greatly decreased; before age six or after age thirty-five, they’re pretty much non-existent
• Manifestation is typically triggered by great stress in the afflicted’s life (e.g., being laughed at one too many times by supposed inferiors)
• Signs of initial ASND manifestation:
-wild, maniacal laughter
-extremely fast speech
-excess energy
-desperate need to build, to create
-tendency for ideas to be written on any available surface
-laws of physics, biology, etc. COMPLETELY IGNORED
-possible violent tendencies toward self, others
-severity determined by level of disorder: a mild case will have an easier manifestation that may last only a couple of hours, while a severe case will have a difficult manifestation that may last a few days (exceptions exist)
• Most sufferers of ASND are most creative during this initial breakthrough; many are unable and/or unwilling to recreate or even explain machines/creatures/etc. created in this time period
• After initial manifestation, stability more or less returns, but the new Touched is still prone to wild bouts of Creativity within the first year or so
• Medically: Atypical Scientific Neural Disorder, with cases ranging from mild to moderate to severe
• Common Parlance: Touched, either Slightly, Somewhat, or Severely
• ASND appears to be a genetic disorder of some kind – it is inheritable from one’s parents
• ASND causes slight brain growth and makes neurons link faster while disrupting brain chemistry – basically, it increases one’s ability to learn and spot the ways that the laws of nature can be bent, but also drives one crazy
• The genes that carry ASND lie dormant in most people: 60% with the disorder never show signs or symptoms
• ASND only visible in a fraction of the population, as 50% of those who do manifest the disease end up killing themselves when it first goes active; the majority of the ones who make it are mild to moderate cases
• Signs of possible ASND:
-Extremely vivid dreams
-Lucid dreaming
-Strong inclination toward some form of scientific study, despite possible conflicting personality traits
-Tendency to fidget while at rest
-Prone to laughing in inappropriate situations
-General awkwardness socially
• Not all affected show all (or any) signs, and not all signs are sure indicators that someone is affected
• Most affected manifest the disease during the teenage years, the most common age range being from fifteen to seventeen
• Manifesting as a child or adult isn’t unheard of, but the chances are greatly decreased; before age six or after age thirty-five, they’re pretty much non-existent
• Manifestation is typically triggered by great stress in the afflicted’s life (e.g., being laughed at one too many times by supposed inferiors)
• Signs of initial ASND manifestation:
-wild, maniacal laughter
-extremely fast speech
-excess energy
-desperate need to build, to create
-tendency for ideas to be written on any available surface
-laws of physics, biology, etc. COMPLETELY IGNORED
-possible violent tendencies toward self, others
-severity determined by level of disorder: a mild case will have an easier manifestation that may last only a couple of hours, while a severe case will have a difficult manifestation that may last a few days (exceptions exist)
• Most sufferers of ASND are most creative during this initial breakthrough; many are unable and/or unwilling to recreate or even explain machines/creatures/etc. created in this time period
• After initial manifestation, stability more or less returns, but the new Touched is still prone to wild bouts of Creativity within the first year or so