• silent_water [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    academia has tested a lot of stuff like this and the answer seems to be no. what works really well is to wear loose clothes and line the inside of your clothes with weights so the fabric moves in opposition to your motion. but also, you're fully in control of how you walk, it's just hard to be aware of it cause it's so automatic -- so if you practice walking like someone else, you'll figure it out after awhile. the neat tricks to beating it require having the right things on you and they can't adjust very easily to allow you to break tracking -- only identification -- whereas teaching yourself new ways of countering technology only requires you to change your behavior in the moment.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        idk, my experience from voice training is that once you become aware of the automatic parts of behaviors, it gets easier and easier to shift your behavior and hold it for lengthier periods of time. it's very hard at first, probably for the first few months, and then it's just another skill you can modulate on demand. and I say this as someone with pretty severe ADHD.