Making this one quick because it’s already past bed time!
I wonder, truly, how much of who we turn out to be is a result of how we were raised, particularly when we were young, and what kind of brain we’re born with.
Like…all children endure the precariousness and helplessness of being a child. No matter how stable, we all begin life with the conscious and subconscious knowledge that we would die without help from adults. That’s stressful. For all of us. And yet, we turn out so differently. We all make sense of and deal with that anxiety in different ways. It seems at some baseline level, some of it has to come down to DNA. But, how much?
If I had been raised differently, how different would I be? How much the same?
I don’t know. I guess the closest we can come to answering that question is through studies of identical twins raised by different families. Nurture does matter. I do know that. But…how much?
These are the thoughts of the night, kids. Night 😉