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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!anon
- From: an7126@anon.penet.fi (Marie)
- Subject: TS: Nature vs Nuture???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.051255.872@fuug.fi>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:15:54 GMT
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- >From: wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us (Wendy)
-
- >This is an interesting topic. I'm a Transexual in a gender transition
- >program. I have always believed I was in the wrong body. Someone played
- >a cruel joke on me!!!
-
- >Now, whether it's biological or social, with me it would be hard to
- >say. My mother and aunt (her twin) treated and dressed me as a girl for
- >the first couple of years of my life.
-
- >Another pre-op that I know had parents that were just the opposite,
- >treating her in a highly masculine way when she was a small boy. We
- >both have the same feelings, but were brought up in entirely different
- >ways. So maybe it's a combination.
-
- >Wendy
-
- Recent tests show that when the average Japanese person hears a
- bird singing, the portion of his brain becomes active which most
- scientist feel is associated with music. In Americans, the same song
- illicits activity in the part of the brain associated with noise.
- Tests indicate that this brain wiring is learned, not genetic. In
- other words, learning change brain physiology, the two are inseper-
- able.
-
- Equally valid research shows that identical twins lead amazingly
- similar lives. Even twins separated at birth. This suggests a very
- powerful underlying genetic predisposition towards becoming the
- people we are. I'm sure we've all read studies about prenatal effects
- on developing human beings.
-
- I totally agee with Wendy, our conscious expression is the sum of
- our experiences, but our ground of being shapes those experiences from
- the day of birth. Under it all there is proclivity, the tendency for
- us to become what we will. As the experiences of our lives rain down
- upon us, the moments of our lives erode our tendencies into solid
- nature, we become who we are from the living process.
-
- Sometimes it is pointless to theorize whether it was the small
- fissure that originally drew the water, or the water itself, that made
- the canyon. In the end we are left with what IS, and we must simply
- appreciate it that and nothing more.
-
-
-
- Your mileage may vary, Marie ;-)
-
-
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