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Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes
jamie pointed out an interesting piece being featured in Newsweek that claims a "genetic glitch" may prevent some kids from learning from their mistakes to the same degree as others. "If there is one thing experts on child development agree on, it is that kids learn best when they are allowed to make mistakes and feel the consequences. So Mom and Dad hold back as their toddler tries again and again to cram a round peg into a square hole. [...] But not, it seems, all kids. In about 30 percent, the coils of their DNA carry a glitch, one that leaves their brains with few dopamine receptors, molecules that act as docking ports for one of the neurochemicals that carry our thoughts and emotions. A paucity of dopamine receptors is linked to an inability to avoid self-destructive behavior such as illicit drug use. But the effects spill beyond such extremes. Children with the genetic variant are unable to learn from mistakes. No matter how many tests they blow by partying the night before, the lesson just doesn't sink in."
I'm curious why "kinda like the Democrats" was modded as Flamebait while "kinda like the Republicans" was modded funny...
Get married in Japan. It's woman's work to take out the garbage there.
Or maybe Nancy Cartwright had an aobortion herself at the request of her cult leader??? Maybe the fetus was an evil alien half-breed or would never have reached Clearity??? Who the hell really knows.
Point is, who cares what the reasons are? She's a nut job! Nuff said.
Life is not for the lazy.
So little dopamine receptor deficient Jamal in the projects hits the crack pipe for the first time in his life. He flicks the muthafuckuh lighter and da crack ... well crackles and fizzles and
that vapor of cocaine is absorbed from his lungs directly into his bloodstreams and fraction of a second causes that massive release of dopamine that divine bell ringing blissful soma
that has tears streak into your eyes while your heart is thumping and about to leap out of your throat... only little Jamal doesn't "get" it. I mean it isn't bad, it kind of lifts his mood
and for him it's like snorting a small line of mediocre coke... so little Jamal will probably not be renting out his ass to da brothers and da Y-T crackerz for another hit off of the crack pipe.
Following logic here where does addiction come into play for little Jamal when he's lacking the very equipment for it?
Seems like this is another criminal behavior is in the genes and paid for article.
They just found the gene for being a tard.
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