How much of a surprise is it that *you* are the person who ended up resulting out of your parents?
- Actually makes sense45.9%
- Kinda weird, but I get it33.6%
- How tf did it happen??20.6%
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Talking to me and my siblings/parents would have you having a very hard time finding the intersection in beliefs and behaviors but then again that holds for the entirety of the country I grew up in so wtf do I know.
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surprised for some traits that are more heritable
less surprised for the traits that are less heritable
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no surprise at all; our overlords chose them for their specific traits to put me with... to say I was created for them would be an overstatement, I was created for more than that but they were chosen to nurture and raise me on purpose.
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As I've learned more about my relatives through the years, the less I feel like an individual, and the more I feel like a genetic automaton.
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It's a bit strange but the sense of your identity coming from a single sperm or egg is preposterous. Any one of those numerous contenders would have resulted in more or less the same you. They all had the same genetic material.
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As an adoptee who only got to meet the bio-paternal (but not bio-dad, he's long dead) side for the first time 8 months ago, many more things make sense.
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I’d have to meet my dad to really say, but my mother and I are nothing alike psychologically save for a handful of minor traits, so it is quite a surprise we are so different.