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Originally Posted by OliversTwisted94
Point is: sorry if I came across as mean or condescending to anyone, I just meant to rip on the method a bit. All I meant was that DBT only works for certain people, because they have the mind for that kinda thing, ya know? That many acronyms only serves to make me volatile and closed off to everything, so that's how I was trying to relate to the OP.
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I admit (sorry!) the acronyms seem stupid. BUT...many have actually helped me in school. PEMDAS (order of operations), SPA (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle), "King Henry Dances Better Drinking Chocolate Milk" (metric units), MVEMJSUN (planets), "Kids Playing Chicken on Freeways Get Smashed" (taxonomy order), KISS (keep it simple stupid), ROY G. BIV (colors), IPMAT (stages of cell division), HOMES (the great lakes), etc. I even remember songs I learned in Spanish to tell the difference btwn ser and estar (I won't write it out
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Even here on the forums, we use a ton of abbreviations: T, Pdoc, SI, SUI, ED, BPD, DBT, CBT, ACT, CSA, BTW, BTWN, OMG, IDK, LOL, W/O, ASAP, WTF, etc.
So I guess they work. And I figure if I had to memorize the prologue of Canterbury Tales in Old English (which sadly I still remember the first 4 lines), DBT will be much more useful to memorize
But I can see how it would deter some people from learning it.