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Been thinking about genetics a lot lately...so is it nature or nurture?
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 535223" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I think its a combo. I think you can have a perfectly wonderful family who raises a sociopath and you can never find a reason in nurture. I also believe that you can have a completely awful family which you would think would turn out completely unfit kids and they end up perfectly stable and attending Harvard. </p><p></p><p>Or you can have a mix. In my family I somewhat have things that I identify with my cousins but I didnt grow up with them. I saw them maybe every two years for a couple of days at a time until I was 15 and then I didnt see them again until I was in my mid 30's. So I couldnt have really picked up a whole lot of traits from them. I did look like them though...well as a kid I did, not now. They are very close, Im not. However, one of my cousins has depression. He is also an outsider and moved completely away from the family...all the way to the west coast and the rest of the family is in the Boston area. His son has or had ADHD. So there is some nature in there somewhere. Plus we have the nature coming down my mom's side with her mental illness and what I believe is her mother's. Then of course her nurture which was just plain bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 535223, member: 1514"] I think its a combo. I think you can have a perfectly wonderful family who raises a sociopath and you can never find a reason in nurture. I also believe that you can have a completely awful family which you would think would turn out completely unfit kids and they end up perfectly stable and attending Harvard. Or you can have a mix. In my family I somewhat have things that I identify with my cousins but I didnt grow up with them. I saw them maybe every two years for a couple of days at a time until I was 15 and then I didnt see them again until I was in my mid 30's. So I couldnt have really picked up a whole lot of traits from them. I did look like them though...well as a kid I did, not now. They are very close, Im not. However, one of my cousins has depression. He is also an outsider and moved completely away from the family...all the way to the west coast and the rest of the family is in the Boston area. His son has or had ADHD. So there is some nature in there somewhere. Plus we have the nature coming down my mom's side with her mental illness and what I believe is her mother's. Then of course her nurture which was just plain bad. [/QUOTE]
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