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Post by kivic on Dec 14, 2013 11:54:33 GMT -5
My 6-year-old daughter brought this book home from the library recently, and although I thought it was a great book for her to learn that some kids need wheelchairs, it also got me thinking about the possibility of a genetic link of some kind or is it a learned behaviour? What do you think? Attachment Deletedwww.scholastic.ca/titles/munsch/books/zoom.htmlHave you noticed any dev-like behaviour from either your mother, sister, daughter?
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Post by Enid on Dec 14, 2013 13:21:02 GMT -5
I don't have kids, and my mum is most definitely not a dev, same with my sisters... My dad, on the other hand... he makes comments that make me suspect there might be somerhing going on there...
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Post by ladytee on Dec 14, 2013 13:27:23 GMT -5
I have no daughter or sister. my mum definitely is not
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Post by jacksongirl on Dec 14, 2013 13:57:38 GMT -5
My sister is definitely not and my mom passed away in 2002. If she was, I never saw any evidence.
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Post by lavly on Dec 14, 2013 14:33:55 GMT -5
i am hunnder persent sure my perents are not devs cos of the shit they give me about chosing guys in chairs ... but i m preaty sure my bro is. he is just really deep under cover. but so much has happend over the yrs to make me bet he is one
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Post by Emma on Dec 14, 2013 15:53:01 GMT -5
My Mom is definitely not a dev. She has MS and the way she deals with it shows she has never thought much about disability. I haven't seen anything hinting at it in terms of my Dad or Brother.
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Post by Ximena on Dec 14, 2013 18:19:31 GMT -5
I don't get any indication from my parents or sister that they're devs. I know my mom really enjoyed my novel, but it wasn't because it was devvy, it was bc I managed to do (what I hoped) and make the wheeler character sexy even to non devs.
But that's a really interesting idea/thread, K.
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Post by Valkyrja on Dec 14, 2013 19:25:01 GMT -5
I know for sure that neither my mom nor my dad were devs. But I DO know that my kid is a dev. She is almost 10 and she love tv shows with wheelers. And when she was little, she used to do the same things I used to do when I was a kid.
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Post by Ruby on Dec 14, 2013 20:47:52 GMT -5
Yet to have kids, but I am the Black sheep in my family in terms of this topic. Though I don't mind. My own thing. I do wonder if I'll see it in my kids if I have them.
Good post.
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Post by kivic on Dec 14, 2013 21:13:08 GMT -5
I definitely see it in both my girls as they wanted the wheelchair for their dolls and the cast/crutch kit too. It's interesting to see this now as an adult and recognizing the same things I did as a child.
I think my mum has/had some dev tendencies by the choice of movies we watched and documentary-type shows all related to disease or disability when I was a child. It's not something I feel I could approach her with though, we don't share a lot of emotions with each other.
Thanks for sharing, ladies. I'm just curious to see if children are born with it or learn it.
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Post by Emma on Dec 15, 2013 0:52:45 GMT -5
I'm just curious to see if children are born with it or learn it. I think I was born a dev. but I do think there are devs who trace their attraction to early childhood experiences.
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Post by lavly on Dec 15, 2013 5:43:46 GMT -5
emma i been think about this all day ... i think maybe devness could be a epigenetics trate, that is past down through genetics but only enviromental facters/ nutrel really couse it full flurish in some devs...
i know im not making any sence but i find it really hard to write about this stuff ... one day im going to make a pod cast... lol
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Post by Peony on Dec 15, 2013 8:41:13 GMT -5
Ohhhhh man...now that I think about it my mum probably has some very dev tendencies. Well...she's really into hot blind characters in movies etc, and always says how sexy glasses are. We also mutually used to love a guy in an ad for health insurance, who could only walk on crutches...
I feel weird about it!
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Post by Peony on Dec 15, 2013 9:05:37 GMT -5
(Also epigenetics is incredible, eh? I've only learnt about it quite recently, so fascinating)
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Post by devogirl on Dec 15, 2013 10:14:43 GMT -5
Interesting question! My mom is definitely not a dev. Actually she has an irrational, insane hatred/fear of disabled people. The line between love and hate is very thin, so maybe there's something there, and she just had the opposite reaction. But there were also some things that happened when she was a teenager that seemed to trigger it, so not necessarily genetic.
I also think that several kids I grew up with who were all part of the same small, tight-knight community are devs. One for certain, I wrote about him in Devo Diary. He married a para woman. He knew I was a dev and we talked about it all the time--he insisted he wasn't, but the evidence was so clear.
Anyway I don't want to label it as either genetic or caused by childhood experiences. It definitely feels like something I was born with, but labeling it as either caused by genetics or the Freudian childhood trauma hypothesis seems too restrictive. There's still so much about human sexual desire we don't understand.
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