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bet-on-me-13 · 7 months

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Danny is the son of Mr Freeze

So! Danny was adopted as a Kid.

It was never really that big of a thing to him, just a small footnote in his life. He never really cared about finding his Bio Family, or even looking into it at all. His new Family was enough for him, no need to complicate it all that much.

But then, the Accident happened.

After he got shocked by the Portal and passed out, his parents had rushed him to the hospital. Apparently his Heart had been pulsing irregularly, so they had decided to not take any chances.

While at the Hospital, the Doctors noticed a particularly strange result in his blood tests. So, a few months after he had been discharged (it took a while for the blood work to come back), they asked him to come back in for further testing.

At first, Danny was scared that they had found out about his Powers. But when he walked into the Room, they had other news.

He had been diagnosed with Huntingtons Disease, a rare neurological condition that apparently had no known cure. The only possible way to contract the Disease was to have inherited it from one of his parents.

They said it was in its early stages at the moment, but as time passed he would become weaker and weaker, and he would become more sickly. They diagnosed that he had just over 5 years left before he died, and there were no treatments or cures that could save him.

Danny got a second opinion with Frostbite, since he knew more about Ghost Biology and might know if it was truly a fatal Disease for a Halfa.

And yeah, it was. No matter how much of him is Ghostly, he is still half Human, and the Human Disease in his body can and will kill him. And there's no guarantee that he will become a full Ghost upon death. For all he knows it will just End him.

So, Danny had a time limit to find a way to cure himself. He didn't have much time to study, what with the constant Ghost Attacks, his School Work, and keeping his parents from attacking innocent Ghosts, but he managed where he could.

Speaking of his parents, they had been looking into the disease as well. But they seemed convinced that they could find a way to save him by simply dissecting a Ghost to study its biology. (It was as if this was just a convenient excuse to dive deeper into their obsession)

After a while, he mamaged to resolve the Ghost Attack stuff and got his grades under control, but he was still making little progress on finding a Cure.

So, he looked into other people who might be studying the same Disease, to see if he could look I to their research. But that search came up empty.

There was nobody who wanted to fund research into such a rare disease, so nobody was studying it. There was one man who was studying it, but he was a convicted Supervillain. Danny decided that he would be his backup plan, since he wasn't sure how Jazz would react if he teamed up with a known Villain.

He just kept on studying his condition.

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It had been about 4 years since his initial diagnosis, and Danny was 18. And he needed help.

He had made no progress in developing a Cure, and his condition had worsened. He could barely walk without a limp anymore, and his limbs felt weaker by the day.

He did manage to get some luck when he found out that lowering his Body Temperature would slow the progress of the Disease. He was never more thankful for his Ice Powers than on the day he figured that out.

But he had hit a roadblock. He needed help, and unfortunately there was only one place he could go to get it. The Supervillain he had read about all that time ago, Mr Freeze.

Now he was headed to Gotham City to seek his help, even if it meant becoming a Villlain himself.

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wrdn-tabris · 8 months

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Hello,

So, my cousin has Huntingtons, and every year my family does a walk for charity to raise money. No one has to donate but if anyone does it’ll mean the world to me. Kayla’s like a sister to me and I love her a lot.

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#cara speaks #huntingtons disease

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lillysilverus · 2 years

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#Jared Padalecki #walker #Huntingtons Disease #HDSA

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zaltinerat666 · 5 months

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mom

sometimes i think

about what i could of been

if i had different parents

but then i realize

you were never really there to begin with.

#negligee #neglect #child abuse #poem #dead mom #Huntingtons disease #tw alchoholism #cptsd

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d0nutzgg · 1 year

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Speechy Research Devlog: Some New Tools & New Discoveries

Hey everyone, so it is about 8:30pm and I am sure that by the time I write this it will be nearly 9 but I wanted to update everyone who is following my Speechy research on here. I programmed 2 new programs today, a Prosodic Pitch Analyzer (PPA), and an RMS Energy Analyzer using my handy-dandy new favorite library librosa.

Prosodic Pitch Analyzer

The PPA calculates the fundamental frequency (F0) or pitch of an audio signal and visualizes it using a line plot. This is a useful tool for analyzing prosodic features of speech such as intonation, stress, and emphasis.

The code takes an audio file as input, processes it using the librosa library to extract the fundamental frequency / pitch, and then plots the pitch contour using matplotlib.

The output plot shows the pitch contour of the audio signal over time, with changes in pitch represented by changes in the vertical position of the line. The plot can be used to identify patterns in the pitch contour, such as rising or falling intonation, and to compare the pitch contour of different audio signals. The prosodic pitch analyzer can be used to detect changes in pitch, which can be indicative of a neurological speech disorder. For example, a person with ataxic dysarthria, which is caused by damage to the cerebellum, may have difficulty controlling the pitch and loudness of their voice, resulting in variations in pitch that are not typical of normal speech. By analyzing changes in pitch using a tool like the prosodic pitch analyzer, it is possible to identify patterns that are indicative of certain neurological disorders. This information can be used by clinicians to diagnose and treat speech disorders, and to monitor progress in speech therapy.

RMS Energy Analyzer

The program that calculates the energy of a person's speech processes an audio file and calculates the energy of the signal at each time frame. This can be useful for analyzing changes in a person's speech over time, as well as for detecting changes in the intensity or loudness of the speech.

The program uses the librosa library to load and process the audio file, and then calculates the energy of each frame using the root-mean-square (RMS) energy of the signal. The energy values are then plotted over time using the matplotlib library, allowing you to visualize changes in the energy of the speech.

By analyzing changes in energy over time, you can gain insight into how the speech patterns of people with these disorders may differ from those without.

Analysis with PPA

The research that I've been focused on today primarily looked at the speech recording of myself, the mid-stage HD patient with chorea, the late-stage HD patient (EOL), and a young girl with aphasia.

The patient with aphasia had slurred speech and varied rising and falling much like an AD patient. Earlier I saw her ROS and was surprised at the differences between my rate of speech and hers (aphasia v AD)

My rate of speech

The girl with aphasia's rate of speech

So I decided to compare our speech pitches as well and this is what ours looked like side-by-side.

Hers is on the left, mine on the right.

Her pitch seemed to start off higher (unstable though) like mine, but mine fell during my recording and wobbled for a while. She had some drastic pitch differences but mine had around 16 peaks, where hers had around 18-19. Her latter peaks weren't as high frequency as mine, as my frequency peaks ended up mostly very high in the 1600hz or around 1000hz. There is quite a bit of instability in both our pitches though.

Her energy levels in the 15 seconds of speech started off at high-mid energy, then dropped around 1 second in until almost 3 seconds, shot back up and varied in high, high-mid energy, then had several "dips, and higher moments of energy. At the end around 13 seconds she got a huge boost of "gusto" (well.. energy). She had around 7 breaths (noted by the dips / flatlines)

This was mine. It seems like as the 15 seconds went on I started to run out of steam. I wasn't able to keep my energy higher. Mine had around 11 breaths so I was running out of breath eg having a breathier voice more than she was.

Research Conclusion for Today

Although we have quite a bit in common with our speech energy and pitches, our rate of speaking isn't. She used more syllables at a constant rate which made it pretty obvious she had a lot of slurring / overshooting, mine was a lot less syllables and rate of speech was quite slow and varied more than hers. This illustrates my cognitive difficulties and use of placeholder words along with slight slurring.

As far as pitch, seems that we had similar issues with pitch throughout the 15 second clips, mine spiked in the latter when I was getting "wore out" and hers spiked earlier when she had more energy.

Our energy levels differ because although she had moments of energy, I tuckered out pretty quickly.

I hope this helps shed some insight into both aphasia patients and ataxic dysarthria / HD patients speech / some cognitive differences.

Will update again tomorrow when I am done with another day of programming and research!

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huntingtons-discussion · 1 year

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Um, hello!

I’m Shift! Just made this blog to try and, I dunno, talk about, vent, some of my feelings and experiences with Huntingtons. It’s criminally unmentioned, although it’s not common so I suppose that makes sense, but it’s brutal.

For clarification, my mother has the disease and it’s been rough. And of course since it’s my mother I have a 50/50 shot of having it too. Which is uh.. fun.

If you don’t know, Huntingtons Disease is essentially an overproduction of the protein Huntington in your brain. It sorta kicks in at a certain age (age varies but is generally similar to whenever it occurred to your parent) and from then over the next 20 ish years (once again, varies) gradually breaks down and destroys your brain.

It has no cure and is 100% fatal.

This is really just a sort of introduction. See how this goes y’know. Who knows, maybe I won’t use it that much but I feel like it could be good.

If this is a subject you relate to, or want to know more about, feel free to reach out! Sometimes I feel like I can’t talk about this subject enough, so don’t feel shy, I want to talk!

#huntingtons #huntingtons disease #disease #tw #discussion #idk how to tag #if someone has recommendations on how to tag that’d be awesome

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radioprinz · 3 months

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Darius would rather die a hero than slowly withering away from Huntington's.

Who can blame him?

#darius tanz #salvation #santiago cabrera #cbs salvation #salvation cbs #salvation season 2 #tanz tuesday #gracius #grace barrows #jennifer finnigan #grace x darius #salvation 2x12 #suicide mission #huntington's disease #huntington's #hero

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trishabeakens · 2 years

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Thing from my AU where Kimbra tests positive for Huntington's and falls ill/passes while her and Bud are still together.

(For context: Kimbra's mom had Huntington's and since it's genetic, Kimbra has a 50/50 chance of having it and passing away at the end of her fic. I keep forgetting to mention Kimbra might end up dying, lol sorry.)

#darkwing duck #darkwing duck oc #dwd oc #kimbra flud #my art #my oc #trishabeakens #kimbra possibly having a fatal neurological disease is a huge part of her character that i do not talk abt enough #anyway read everything is blue it explains Huntington's and Kimbras reasoning for not wanting to get tested #the final chapter of eib is gonna be 200 sorry it's a long fic lol

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wheresernie · 10 months

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im gonna piss myself we're doing a "case study" in class and i guessed the disease immediately. it was not a common one. my teacher was so shocked.

why did i know it? it was a major plotline on house md

#it was Huntington's disease. im guessing nobodys guessed it that quickly before #thanks 13

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preponias · 4 months

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Huntington’s Disease

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downthetubes · 3 months

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For Richard: A Tribute to Comics Writer, Editor and Publisher Richard Ashford, by Cefn Ridout

Editor and writer Cefn Ridout, who worked with the late Richard Ashford at Acme Press, remembers his friend

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#ACME Press #Carol Baird #Cefn Ridout #Huntington’s Disease #Obituaries #Richard Ashford #Speakeasy

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lire-casander · 1 year

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#36 feeling bad when the other is having a hard time

feeling bad when the other is having a hard time original prompt list here

Robert’s health is rapidly deteriorating. Everyone can see it, and now even his daughters are aware of it. Apparently, Owen’s brother had told them before their trip to attend the wedding, and they’d taken to the news quite well.

Probably, Carlos thinks, because they hadn't seen until that moment what Huntington’s disease does to a person.

It’s not just the deterioration of Robert’s physical condition — the tremors that are harder to hide and the difficulty in remembering certain things. It’s also that, some time along the way, and not that far from that very moment, Robert will cease to be himself, becoming instead a ghost of the man he once had been.

But the disease is also taking its toll on Robert’s family. In the short time he’s known her, Carlos can tell Sydney looks exhausted; it’s the caretaker curse, he thinks. The girls don’t seem to understand what the illness is doing to their father’s health to its full extent, but Carlos is sure they will soon enough. Although it’s not only the girls he’s worried about.

TK thinks he can hide his pain from Carlos, but he’s got a trained eye on soul battlefields. He can tell when TK’s hurting, and this is one of those times. They’ve talked a lot in the past few weeks, ever since they found out about the hereditary condition Owen’s estranged father had gifted them all with. Finding out both Owen and TK should have been a relief, but TK hadn’t really looked happy about it. Instead, Carlos has noticed that his fiancé doesn’t really finish his food anymore and that he fidgets much more than before.

“Do you want to talk about it?” he asks one night, the day before their last family dinner as fiancés.

“Talk about what?” TK answers without another question, raising one eyebrow at him.

“About what’s stressing you,” Carlos says, pointing at the way TK’s been pushing his vegetables around his plate. “And don’t tell me it’s wedding jitters. I know it’s deeper than that. I know you.”

TK takes a moment to himself, as though he’s pondering whether or not he can trust Carlos with whatever this is. And to Carlos’ utmost panic, he suddenly drops his fork and begins to cry.

It takes Carlos a second to stand up and rush to TK, pulling him into his warm embrace. “I’m here,” he whispers into TK’s ear. “I’ve got you.”

He rocks TK back and forth gently as his fiancé cries, TK’s tears wetting Carlos’ shirt where TK’s face is pressed against Carlos’ chest. It’s an almost unbearable feeling; Carlos’ heart breaks a little with each tear that TK sheds. He resorts to humming the song his mother always sang to him when he was a little kid and he was hurting, but not even that stops TK’s wails from echoing through the loft.

“I’m sorry,” TK hiccups. “I don’t know why I’m crying.”

“I think you do,” Carlos says softly, “but you’re scared to tell me.” When he feels, more than sees, TK nodding, he continues, “I’m here. I’m your soulmate, remember? You can tell me anything.”

“It’s just—I’m relieved that I won’t develop Huntington’s,” TK confesses. “But I’m so mad at myself because of that. Because my uncle is dying from it, and my cousins will have to grow up without a father, and he will never see them graduate from college, he will never walk them down the aisle, and they won’t be able to call him whenever they have a problem and I—”

“Hey, hey,” Carlos cuts him off. “Breathe, just breathe. “It’s okay to have conflicting feelings, baby. It’s a difficult situation.”

“I just think life’s so fucked up sometimes,” TK sniffles. “I’ve just found out I have extended family. Uncle Robert is so cool. And Aunt Sydney and the girls. Why do they have to go through it? I know what it’s like to lose a parent, I have a brother who’s growing up without his mother and it kills me. How am I supposed to be here tomorrow night and smile at them and act as though nothing bad’s happening when he’s dying? When he wants to die?”

“I know your father has told you this before,” Carlos says after a moment. He chooses his words carefully through his own pain. “But we all have a death sentence hanging over our heads. We’re not promised tomorrow. So we might as well enjoy life to its fullest while we can. That’s what your uncle is doing.”

“But he’s asked Dad—”

“We can’t judge his decision,” Carlos continues, ignoring TK’s attempt at interrupting. “I know you don’t like it, but we have to respect it. We can’t understand anyone until we’ve walked a mile in their shoes, TK. But I get it,” he says softly, holding TK closer and tighter. “You have every right to be upset.”

TK nods, sniffling heavily until his crying resumes; he grabs a handful of Carlos’ shirt in his fist and squeezes, grieving for what could have been and mourning for what will never be.

After what seems like an eternity, TK’s crying subsides; Carlos tries to move back to see TK’s face, but his fiancé holds on for dear life, his grip almost hurting him, so Carlos does the only thing he can think of.

He holds on right back to TK.

#lire's 40 to the 40s #prompt 36: feeling bad when the other is having a hard time #prompt 36 #tarlos #tk strand/carlos reyes #carlos reyes/tk strand #911ls #911 ls #911 lone star #robert strand #mentions of huntington's disease #mentions of neurodegenerative disease

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lifewithchronicpain · 2 years

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“As a disabled person I cannot hide myself away. I cannot change my disability … and I cannot hide myself away in case I ‘trigger’ someone.”

In a now deleted Youtube video, Jade added she is “heartbroken” that some of the Equality Act, which outlaws discrimination against someone based on their disability, is “being potentially eroded”.

“This is a cancel culture situation,” she said. “Because when you break this down, what this people want me to accept is that any single person can say, ‘my feelings are I don’t like your disability, so you need to remove yourself’. Where do we draw the line to that?” (Read more at link)

What the fuck!??

#disability #ableism #Huntington's disease #airbnb #cancel culture #article

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officialcaptainrum · 1 year

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#if they give tk huntingdon’s disease I’m gonna flip a car #*huntington's #i cant fricken spell

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saintlesbian · 1 year

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Britt coughing near the end of the ep… ARE THEY KILLING HER RN… 🥺

#general hospital #pentababbles #they better not THEY BETTER NOT…#like I guess it’s the huntingtons disease acting up again but. god I didn’t think there was a risk of it KILLING HER…#imma be so mad if this is how they take her out wtf

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d0nutzgg · 9 months

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Life Updates: buildspace, an Idea, and some Concepts

Hey everyone, thanks for all the support on my prior posts having to do with machine learning! I know I didn't mention this really but recently I was accepted into S4 of buildspace which is like a "school" for creatives. I am doing Nights & Weekends but it has been a lot of fun since I started! We just did our first project which was creating the idea we will be working on throughout this "season" of buildspace. This was mine:

I know you all can tell I am really passionate about helping others with the research I do with machine learning / AI. I am wanting to make it into a nonprofit type business while I am in buildspace for s4.

I have some Proof of Concepts already which you can check out on my Kaggle here:

However, I am working on another project today that uses Logistic Regression and XGBoost models stacked together to predict heart failure mortality. I plan on doing a full walk through of the project to help show investors and buildspace what my goal is for my business.

What are your ideas on this? Do you think I should go for it? What are your dreams if you are a software engineer yourself? I want to hear from you all!

#programming #programmer #technology #coding #huntingtons disease #buildspace #machine learning #ai #aicommunity #artificial intelligence #python programming #python projects #programming project #health #medical industry #medical field #medical research

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