i got myopia, autism, very severe adhd (thats luckily mostly gone thanks to meds at least), eating disorders caused by a rare condition consisting of an anomalous way of swallowing (or something like that), a shitload of stress problems, high chances of getting schizophrenia if i ever come closer than 10 meters of anything made out of cannabis (with the only exception of the ropes), high chances of cancer due to some weird gene shit my dad has…i think the only good thing i got off my parents dna is that my bones are harder to break than average (which is very damn useful when you do medieval swordfighting at historical events (or at the local renfair))
Got mental illness from my mom’s side, short legs and heart disease from my dad’s.
The doctor delivering me:
My brother got all the good genes, I got what was left
As a middle kid, I like to say that my older brother was the rough draft, I was the intended product, and my younger brother was the sad leftovers 😁
Enshittification
I’m also a middle child. My parents wanted a boy and a girl. They got my older brother, then got me (amab), so they adopted my younger sister.
Ur parents have good DNA?
are you me? lol
my father’s side has autism, depression, anxiety, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol and obesity.
my mother’s side has autism, adhd, anxiety, alcoholism/addictions and cancers galore.
i got every single one of those and been getting treatment for all of it decades now, plus the added “benefit” of knowing that i’ll be dead sometime in my late 60’s to early 70’s because of it; i’m middle aged now.
i dont think addictions are genetic
it depends on the addiction; alcoholism & gambling are.
I’m in a very similar boat. I’ve been telling my husband gently that almost nobody in my family makes it to 70…
