Signs of Adults with Incomplete Lower Brain Development | The Cortex Parent
Road Rage
Road rage is an over-the-top, distorted reaction to a stranger’s way of driving, noting that distorted thinking is a common red flag for incomplete pons development.
Distorted Hearing
If the lower centers of the brain are not fully developed, yes people hear words, but they don’t always process the actual message that was conveyed.
Unforgiving
a person with such underdevelopment gets “stuck” on a thought and then, consequently, is not able to let it go. So whatever the offender did that was deemed unforgivable just keeps playing over and over in the midbrain-stuck person’s mind.
Repeated Assurance
When the pons is underdeveloped, people often have distorted angst. Not only do such people experience anxiety regularly, but the subject of their fear is also often something that makes the rest of the world goes, Huh
Perfectionism
Some adults may use perfectionism as a cover for distorted angst, which (again) is reflective of an underdeveloped pons.
Interruptions
A person with an underdeveloped pons may experience anxiety as soon as he starts to think he won’t remember what he wants to say—so he cuts right into the conversation. That way, he won’t lose the thought.
Similarly, a person with an underdeveloped midbrain is prone to being impulsive, so he may just blurt out his thought, rather than wait for the other person to finish speaking.
Inflexibility
Appearing to be inflexible and rigid to others may actually be more related to a fear of functioning without lower brain compensations in place.
People may also appear to be unbending when they won’t consider replacing a prior way of doing something with a new approach—even when the latter actually serves them better. Here, an underdeveloped midbrain makes it difficult for such people to shift gears and move in a different direction.
Victim Mentality
When the lower centers of the brain are underdeveloped, people don’t always have access to the cortex—yet that’s where reflection occurs.
But without reflection, such people cannot consider how they may have also contributed to an undesirable situation. Instead, they quickly blame everyone else for whatever happened.
But since these people have no awareness that such expectations are reflective of needing compensations to help their own brain profile, they often believe the person who does not comply then “hates” them or is “out to get them,” thereby escalating the distortion and victim mentality even more.
Tunnel-vision
When the pons is underdeveloped, people often have limited peripheral vision. In such case, their world is literally that which is directly in front of them. But this can also transfer to viewing life, in general, through a narrow lens—where people appear to act as though they’re the only ones who exist,
Tunnel-vision also happens if the midbrain is underdeveloped. Here, people experience difficulty in seeing the “bigger picture” whenever involved in or assessing a situation. So, they’ll get distracted by lots of details— many of which are unimportant—as they expend a tremendous amount of energy spinning in directions that ultimately do nothing to move the current situation forward.
Excessive Questions
If the midbrain isn’t fully developed, people don’t often process speech at the rate it is spoken. So, to slow down communications—especially in a lecture-type format—a person may ask questions throughout a presentation. Doing so then temporarily stops the flow of information, while making that person look as though he is very interested in the topic (rather than someone who needs to compensate for incomplete lower brain development).
People with incomplete lower brain development may also repeat the same questions because they’re not always able to access information that has been previously stored. When they don’t remember what they’ve already learned, they have to ask the question again . . . and again . . . and again.
Out-of-Bounds Behavior
When people have poor proprioception, they don’t have an innate sense of spatial boundaries in relation to other people and objects. Interestingly, that lack of awareness sometimes transfers beyond
physical boundaries. In such case, people may act in ways that are viewed as out-of-bounds by others. For example, they may share sensitive information that they should have kept private, or they create a scene in public. Yet, they do such actions without any awareness that they’ve even stepped over the line.
Of course, not every behavior screams incomplete lower brain development.
