It does sort of have to do with brain development because it's responsible for establishing the midline, and midline defects often affect the brain. A deficiency in sonic hedgehog causes holoprosencephaly ("whole forebrain", or failure of the brain to separate into hemispheres) and structures that lie close to the midline are deficient, or absent entirely. Extreme holoprosencephaly is cyclopia. Don't google that if you have a weak stomach for medical stuff.
/teratology sperg
Sorry, I didn't really read your post, but what I took from it is that playing Sonic the Hedgehog will make me smarter? Awesome.
I really can't make heads or tails of this. The levels of 'tism are astounding. If you follow his train of thought, he's saying, "I wouldn't kill myself even though I've been really depressed, so therefore, let's change Sonic's arms back." WHAT???
I agree with the guy who speculated that this post actually includes at least two different trains of thought, and that the last paragraph ("Let's change Sonic's arms back") is actually referring to the paragraph about MJ, not the one immediately preceding the last paragraph. In other words, you have two trains of thought:
1: "I just heard about the changes to Sonic's arms. He shouldn't have been forced to have his arms changed, just like Michael Jackson shouldn't have had to bleach his skin in order to improve his image for the white patriarchy. Therefore, let's get Sonic's arms changed back!"
2: "Michael Jackson shouldn't have been pressured into bleaching his skin in order to overcome his insecurity and improve his image. I mean, I've been really depressed for a long time, but I'm not going to change myself because of it and certainly never commit suicide."
It's also funny how his language leaves subtle clues to his belief that cartoons are real people, i.e. "
They FORCED Sonic to change his arm colors just to improve his image, even though he wouldn't want to." It's just like when he argued with Alec that Asperchu doesn't
want to be called Asperchu, and therefore Alec should give Asperchu another name in order to protect Asperchu's feelings.