Please do continue to be very cautious re surrogacy, and also adoption - the separation of a baby from its birth mother causes pre verbal trauma. The disruption of the connection which Philippa refers to, which corrupts the development of the infant’s brain and nervous system, has lifelong effects. This wasn’t widely known during the peak relinquishment and adoption years of the late sixties and early seventies, but it is now. Many of us middle aged adoptees are now coming into consciousness about the realities of this deeply flawed social experiment we were victims of and which continues to affect our lives, and our childrens’. The mother-baby bond needs to be acknowledged, encouraged and preserved at all cost, to avoid further generations of traumatised individuals.
Thank you Helen. The coming into consciousness is hard but ultimately a positive. Knowledge is power ?! And a diagnosis is helpful for finding the right way to heal. I will email you 👍🏻
PP is right about mothers being in system with a pregnancy. Have you come across microchimerism before? (Foetal cells left behind in the mother's tissues after any pregnancy). No one really knows why it happens, but it definitely *does* happen. (I don't know that this necessarily makes a case against surrogacy though.)
Yes, some very freaky stuff goes on. Also, we are just beginning to learn about how breastmilk production is dynamic—if the baby gets an infection, its composition changes.
A "Things can only get glitter" t-shirt would re-awaken the conspiracy theory about Starmer letting Savile off the hook and the bakers of British QAnon would see it as a reference to Gary.
I am only 1/4 of the way through Michael Lewis' new book on SBF; I find it curious though that as yet he has not identified SBF as having Autism/Aspergers, especially like his early call out of the principal character in The Big Short as being lucky that his special Asperger's area of interest was finance rather than "say, lawnmower catalogues". As the father of a high functioning autistic son, these characteristics are pretty easy for me to spot. SBF's vocal tone and delivery sound to me a lot like my son's friend Esteban.
I accept the criticism of this book; unlike most reviewers though who know so much more about this whole FTX mess, it is new to me, and if nothing else, Michael Lewis is immensely entertaining and a great story teller. I hope he has more to say on FTX and SBF when this trial is over and done.
I generally try to avoid being a purveyor of useless trivia....but here goes: did you know that the 'Things could....' hit was by D:Ream who's most famous member was the tv science guru Brian Cox? Well fancy that!
Please do continue to be very cautious re surrogacy, and also adoption - the separation of a baby from its birth mother causes pre verbal trauma. The disruption of the connection which Philippa refers to, which corrupts the development of the infant’s brain and nervous system, has lifelong effects. This wasn’t widely known during the peak relinquishment and adoption years of the late sixties and early seventies, but it is now. Many of us middle aged adoptees are now coming into consciousness about the realities of this deeply flawed social experiment we were victims of and which continues to affect our lives, and our childrens’. The mother-baby bond needs to be acknowledged, encouraged and preserved at all cost, to avoid further generations of traumatised individuals.
I’m sorry to hear that. I’d be very interested to hear more, so do drop me an email if you would like to talk.
Thank you Helen. The coming into consciousness is hard but ultimately a positive. Knowledge is power ?! And a diagnosis is helpful for finding the right way to heal. I will email you 👍🏻
Thank you ! How / where to email ?
I believe you can just hit reply, if you get this by email rather than in the app
Thanks Tom 👍🏻
“THINGS CAN ONLY GET GLITTER”
Er, I think it’s better to avoid any possible word association football with Paul Gadd.
You make a fair point
PP is right about mothers being in system with a pregnancy. Have you come across microchimerism before? (Foetal cells left behind in the mother's tissues after any pregnancy). No one really knows why it happens, but it definitely *does* happen. (I don't know that this necessarily makes a case against surrogacy though.)
Yes, some very freaky stuff goes on. Also, we are just beginning to learn about how breastmilk production is dynamic—if the baby gets an infection, its composition changes.
A "Things can only get glitter" t-shirt would re-awaken the conspiracy theory about Starmer letting Savile off the hook and the bakers of British QAnon would see it as a reference to Gary.
😬😬😬😬
I am only 1/4 of the way through Michael Lewis' new book on SBF; I find it curious though that as yet he has not identified SBF as having Autism/Aspergers, especially like his early call out of the principal character in The Big Short as being lucky that his special Asperger's area of interest was finance rather than "say, lawnmower catalogues". As the father of a high functioning autistic son, these characteristics are pretty easy for me to spot. SBF's vocal tone and delivery sound to me a lot like my son's friend Esteban.
I accept the criticism of this book; unlike most reviewers though who know so much more about this whole FTX mess, it is new to me, and if nothing else, Michael Lewis is immensely entertaining and a great story teller. I hope he has more to say on FTX and SBF when this trial is over and done.
From memory, I don’t think SBF has a diagnosis and therefore I imagine Lewis would be reluctant to play armchair psychiatrist.
I always really dig any passing reference to Robert Caro's writing. I think he was a passing character in a Simpsons episode, too.
https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Robert_Caro_(character)
Michael Lewis has never been referenced in the Simpsons.
I generally try to avoid being a purveyor of useless trivia....but here goes: did you know that the 'Things could....' hit was by D:Ream who's most famous member was the tv science guru Brian Cox? Well fancy that!
“Things can only get glitter” is genius. I do wonder though if PP would have got the Observer and other gigs had her name not been known already.
Love the bloated cheetah photo. Would you mind spelling it out a bit more for this reader as to why the reference to Mr Mounk's book is nepotism?
Oh that’s just what I say when I have a personal interest in a recommendation — Yascha and I are Atlantic colleagues. He’s not secretly my brother.