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brin_bellway) wrote2021-02-19 10:59 am
brin_bellway) wrote2021-02-19 10:59 am
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Also, while I'm thinking about this kind of stuff
[cw: illness, (arguably) politics]
An old friend once said to me that I seemed to exhibit a high-pathogen-stress phenotype, despite being from a low-pathogen-stress culture.
We didn't know why. Was there some neurological glitch that caused the little developmental switch in my brain to get stuck in the "on" position?
But I guess now I know. I *act* as if I'm living in a much more dangerous world than the people around me because I *am*.
How much of my life and my mind have been shaped by the strength of my immune response? This is *exactly* the kind of post the pathogen-stress hypothesis would predict from a high-pathogen-stress person in a low-pathogen-stress environment, as I understand it.
I mean, I'm not convinced the pathogen-stress hypothesis is necessarily *true*: notably, it predicts that public health would be a right-wing issue, and, uh, well, *gestures at world*. Still, it's something to think about.
An old friend once said to me that I seemed to exhibit a high-pathogen-stress phenotype, despite being from a low-pathogen-stress culture.
We didn't know why. Was there some neurological glitch that caused the little developmental switch in my brain to get stuck in the "on" position?
But I guess now I know. I *act* as if I'm living in a much more dangerous world than the people around me because I *am*.
How much of my life and my mind have been shaped by the strength of my immune response? This is *exactly* the kind of post the pathogen-stress hypothesis would predict from a high-pathogen-stress person in a low-pathogen-stress environment, as I understand it.
I mean, I'm not convinced the pathogen-stress hypothesis is necessarily *true*: notably, it predicts that public health would be a right-wing issue, and, uh, well, *gestures at world*. Still, it's something to think about.