COVID got into us through the city water supply and that's why some people never shake it.

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Anonymous wrote:I am the mother of identical twins. When they were young, I belonged to a MOT group.
All of us with identicals were tall, broad shouldered, big chested but thin legs. There's something there.

Twins run in my family and both mom's were small chested.

But are they identical? My understanding is that twins running in families are fraternal.

Fraternal twins can run in the family - they're a result of a woman releasing an extra egg when she ovulates. My mom, an identical twin herself, calls identical twins "a freak of nature" -- the egg, after fertilization, just splits into two and then keeps dividing in utero. It does not run in the family.

Anonymous wrote:The rise in neurologically diverse children is due to the artificial increase of hormones--whether it be because of psychotropic drugs in mothers and fathers, plastic hormone disruptors, and IVF treatments, or some combination of those. Some people are more genetically susceptible to these than others and are more profoundly affected in utero.

My theory on this is different. I believe the rise in autism and autism spectrum disorders is due to people on the autism spectrum being more able to reproduce than at any other time in history. In the past, people on the spectrum were unlikely to marry (they were seen as strange or weird...). Now, people on the spectrum are able to be successful due to the rise in computer science careers, and are therefore more suitable marriage partners and are having children more often.

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Anonymous wrote:Another theory: my son and I (and maybe his dad too) have super immunity to covid. We never tested positive when testing was required, and never locked down in any way. We aren’t testing anymore as it’s not required but all the colds just feel normal.

I think I have this too. I've been directly exposed to it several times, tested negative (multiple tests afterwards), and the only way I can explain that I've still never gotten covid is some sort of natural immunity. Or maybe it will get me eventually - I'm not worried about that, just about inadvertently passing it on to someone else.

Similar, but I suspect I was exposed to Covid via travel in Dec 2019 when I had a sore throat - rare for me. Maybe I was lucky enough to not have a severe case?

In my family’s experience testing was required for school and work. Three have had it once and the rest have never tested positive. Colds are more severe, but never a positive test for few of us.

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Anonymous wrote:Women don’t like Tom Cruise. Guys love Tom Cruise because they mistakenly think women love him.

My personal theory is that Tom Cruise is an alien. No proof, but no one is ever going to convince me that that guy is a human being.

If he is, he comes from planet small. That cat is tiny.

This made me LOL!

Anonymous wrote:I’m like the anti-vaxxer of sun screen. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that wearing SPF daily is the answer to preventing aging and skin cancer. Is smearing chemicals on our face really healthier for us than natural sunlight? All the research seems to say yes, but I just can’t get on board with this and kind of thing sunscreen is a scam. I also think sunscreen is destroying our reefs.

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I agree with your theory and rarely use sunscreen. Your theory is way more well developed than mine.

That all young people between the age of 21 - 25 should have a personal stylist. This is when ppl are typically in their best shape. But dress in the wrong colors or fitting clothing. If they had stylists, they would learn how to properly fit clothes, choose the right color schemes based on their complexion.

WHY did I wear such cheap, gray clothes in my early 20s? why why why? (hit - clearance rack at GAP)

Anonymous wrote:China, Russia, India, have no languages of their own. They actually speak English.

They just speak this made up stuff when annoying Americans are around.

LOL

Using any medical intervention to keep people alive past 80-85 is why less and less people are having children. Can't have it both ways. There's less supports for families when so many resources go to keeping people alive well past life expectancy, and being there with elderly parents who already lived their life is a huge tax on families where kids need their parents now. Just too much stress that is so taxing, it can't really be recovered from.

I don't understand the reasoning for keeping people alive just because we can. If their bodies are done, they're done.

I also think MAID should be available to everyone everywhere. Suicide is also an unrecoverable stress on everyone left living or involved in any way. Forcing people to live shouldn't be a group effort we all undertake, it literally sucks the life out of the people doing it.

China, Russia, India, have no languages of their own. They actually speak English.

They just speak this made up stuff when annoying Americans are around.

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Anonymous wrote:Direct correlation between the obesity epidemic in the US and three things 1) processed food, 2) Starbucks and 3) open concept floor plans where the kitchen and family room are in the same shared space.

McMansions, too. People feel too small in their oversized houses with oversized furniture, and, oh hey, the kitchen’s right there.

I mean, demographically, Starbucks drinkers living in McMansions are among the least likely to be obese...

Here - sure. Down in NC or Dallas or ATL, no I don't think so.

no, holds true there as well

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Anonymous wrote:Women don’t like Tom Cruise. Guys love Tom Cruise because they mistakenly think women love him.

My personal theory is that Tom Cruise is an alien. No proof, but no one is ever going to convince me that that guy is a human being.

If he is, he comes from planet small. That cat is tiny.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of trans people may have chromosomal abnormalities like xxy or xyy, but I think a high percentage of the really young trans or non binary kids are either doing it for attention, to fit in, or because of peer pressure to be “inclusive” or special. I think the actual number of true trans (due to chromosomes and being mislabeled as infants) is probably pretty small.

I work in a junior high. Believe me, they'd rather be a typical hetero kid.

I think it’s the parents wanting Instagram attention that their kid is trans or non binary.

For instance, my tween now hates dresses and pink. Loves soccer clothes in the color blue. NBD. another mom may twist that into her being non binary or something. I KNOW mothers like this and it’s nuts. Just let the kid be a kid. Stop with the labels.

My high school student (bi) has many friends who are lgbtq+ and their parents don't know. I'm having trouble keeping track of the name my kid calls them every day and uses when they talk about them at home and I use when they're at my house and the name they were given at birth and I have to remember to say in front of their parents if I see them. I think it's still hard to come out to most parents and the Instagram people are a smaller percentage than you think.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of trans people may have chromosomal abnormalities like xxy or xyy, but I think a high percentage of the really young trans or non binary kids are either doing it for attention, to fit in, or because of peer pressure to be “inclusive” or special. I think the actual number of true trans (due to chromosomes and being mislabeled as infants) is probably pretty small.

I work in a junior high. Believe me, they'd rather be a typical hetero kid.

I think it’s the parents wanting Instagram attention that their kid is trans or non binary.

For instance, my tween now hates dresses and pink. Loves soccer clothes in the color blue. NBD. another mom may twist that into her being non binary or something. I KNOW mothers like this and it’s nuts. Just let the kid be a kid. Stop with the labels.

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Anonymous wrote:Women don’t like Tom Cruise. Guys love Tom Cruise because they mistakenly think women love him.

My personal theory is that Tom Cruise is an alien. No proof, but no one is ever going to convince me that that guy is a human being.

I would believe this. It would explain a lot of Scientology too tbh.