I just heard the most nuts and riveting story on Hawaiian public radio.
Anyone heard of "precocious puberty"?
It's a massive over-supply of hormones at a very young age, & it's one of the most extreme genetic influences over behaviour I've heard of, for obvious reasons.
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This guy interviewed had the testosterone of a teenager at age four.
Obviously, violence, sexual urges etc at that age is highly disruptive, and a childhood of trauma, bullying, and trouble, smoking by 9, getting with a 17yo girl and doing acid at age 12, getting expelled, etc.
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This guy started researching how the genetic mutation had impacted his family before him.
His dad didn't help much, despite having gone through the same thing. He didn't want to revisit his childhood one bit.
But it was his grandfather that blew me away.
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Part of the deal with this illness is passing for way, way older than you are, obviously.
His granddad ran away from home age 10, signed up for the army, and was shipped to Europe to fight.
Age 10! They "thought" he was 20!
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At age 11, he was the driver for generals, and they didn't have a fucking clue they were being driven around by an eleven years old.
But he got bored, went AWOL, fucked off to Paris, and went on a bender of booze and brothels that made the newspapers.
Age 11.
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They caught him, court-martialled him, and sent him back to the trenches.
So, next up, he leads a few guys in stealing a fucking plane, and they go for a joyride right down no mans land between the trenches.
Again, caught, court-martialled, back to the trenches.
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Adult man's urges with a preteen's impulse control.
That sounds... rough. Lot rougher than ultrahigh IQs, most forms of neurodivergence or being born into an oppressed minority, tbh.