• Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    how long would you have lived

    no.

    my mother(her anti-bodies) would have killed me in the womb :D

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      TIL that being allergic to your own baby is a thing that can happen

      I swear, the more I learn about biology the more shocked I am that we’ve survived 4 billion years

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        Fun fact, after you have a kid with someone the mother can no longer receive organs from you, even if you were comparable previously. It’s because the baby is partially composed of the fathers proteins, and although the immune system is suppressed during pregnancy, it still recognizes those proteins. So the next time it encounters them, it considers them a foreign invader and attacks them, leading to an automatic rejection of the organ.

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    Childbirth, but my son’s birth, not mine. Lost a lot of blood and had to have meds to slow it, surgery to stop it, and a transfusion to replace it.

    I don’t think anything would have got me before then, but I’m vaccinated, so who knows?

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    Tough to say what I would’ve contracted without vaccines. But the upper bound is 10, when I had pneumonia and relied on antibiotics.

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    I almost certainly would have died to “pray the autism/ADHD away” evolving into “kill him, he’s a demon” related causes

    as for what age I’m not sure but I think saying I’d make it to 12 is optimistic

    VERY glad I was born to loving parents who knew I was autistic before I did, followed doctor’s advice, and fought to get me accommodations ij school

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      nah, medieval europeans (that’s a very very very broad terms, just so we’re aware) seem to have mostly just viewed noticably neurodivergent people as “mentally challenged” and infantilized them more than anything.

      Apparently there was also a good chance that if you were autistic and decent at communicating, you could be taken on as a court jester and given quite free reign to criticize powerful people, because as it turns out having someone who isn’t a yes-man is pretty useful when you’re a ruler who wants their nation to not collapse under them.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f848ejfAFNM

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      Probably would have been fine, honestly. There is at least one known example of not just humans, but neanderthals successfully treating a broken arm over 100,000 years ago. So apparently we had that particular bit of medicine down long before even pottery or shoes

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    I would have probably died at birth. The story I heard was that the doctor’s pregnant mistress showed up, they got into a fight, and he was so pissed that he left in the middle of his shift. He eventually came back, but by then I had already swallowed amniotic fluid. I ended up spending a few weeks in another hospital after that.