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I was an EMT in Maine at this age so I can definitely relate. On one hand, I got to see a lot of stuff and have experiences that no one my age got to do. On the other hand, there is definitely a reason why people do not see that stuff that young. A lot of the colleague’s I had at the station wouldn’t let me see “the bad stuff” or wouldn’t allow me to respond to calls “too rough” and I would get SO frustrated back then. Looking back now, I can’t imagine what they were with holding me from but it was probably a good thing they did!
“The fecal matter hit the oscillating device at home” are words I want tattooed on me lol. I feel this as well with not being able to keep up with any home things! My poor husband has had to pick up so much of my slack at home and the local delivery drivers from dominos probably know our address by heart at this point since he cant cook and I am too busy half the time. I keep telling myself and him that the end of the program is near!
I definitely understand why this topic brings out such a defensive reaction and what you’re describing makes my skin crawl as well. I think that it is important to understand there are some completely harmless and actually fun experiments that I would sign any kid up for. For example, I did research for an essay that included a study about kids who were just given balls to play with at recess compared to having a full playground. The study concluded that the kids who only could play with a bouncy ball came up with creative ways to play with it and they appeared to have just as much fun as the other kids. The experiment was only 10 weeks long and had no long term effects. I think ones like can provide valuable data while keeping everyone free from harm and for that experiment, ill take some cash for my kid to play with a ball any day.
You bring up an interesting point of how culture can influence children. This topic is already very tricky in the US and in this culture, kids can often talk back to parents and are allowed to speak their mind. In other cultures, these experiments still need to be done but kids have less of a say against their elders, so that could make them even more compliant to the treatments, depending on the culture.
Crystal,
You have a very interesting point of view on this topic since your boys have hemophilia. I can definitely appreciated that you are fully evaluating both sides of the debate. Ultimately, I would wonder where the studies of genetic modification is with hemophilia specifically. I took a look and it seems like there are more and more positive outcomes with this specific type of genetic modification. Of course, since it is so new, it is going to cost around 3.5 million dollars for a treatment.
The other difficult cost besides the price is that this person has not been living with the effect of the genetic modification for very long. For peace of mind sake, I personally would be scared for a loved one to get that done until I saw what the effects were 10, 15, even 20 years down the line.That is a good connection from the genetically modified food being unhealthy and now we seem to be exploring that idea on an even larger platform. I feel that you can not do anything in science without having to experiment on it and there is only so far that you are able to go doing animal testing. Once you cross that line to doing trials on humans, you get an instance like the example you used. And who can thoroughly agree to doing genetic modification to themselves if the doctor is listing off all of the pros- “It will cure HIV” “It will take away your sickle cell illness”, but there is no way of knowing the cons.
I can definitely relate to not liking change because of the way you were raised! I feel that it is so much easier to fall into parents footsteps since you know that you would be following that path that they have been on, they have the answers to all the questions you would stumble upon. It can be scary to see someone you love go so far away, especially when you’re only 12, but its a great opportunity to open your eyes to more. There is absolutely nothing wrong with staying in the small town you grew up on but it’s great that you are surrounding yourself with other cultures!
I could listen to your life stories all day long, Deb! I’m glad to see that you’ve outgrown the shy and conservative nature because you have so much wisdom to share. A consistency I noticed between you, me and Ben is that the military is a great way to open up the narrow lenses of a small town and see much more diversity! In Frank Sinatra’s words, I would say you’ve and “travelled each and every highway” but I’m glad to have you back here in New Hampshire. 🙂
