Wednesday, January 17, 2018

17/365/Serial


When Sarah got pregnant, she was most worried that she would have a child who was bipolar. Before deciding what to do (have the baby? get married? abort?), she went to a genetic counselor. Because all the bipolar people in her family were men, she wondered if it would matter if she had a boy or a girl. The counselor told her that it didn’t matter; that a girl would be just as likely/unlikely to inherit this; that maybe the reason only men in her family were bipolar was a mixture of nature/nurture. Or maybe it was just chance.

2 comments:

  1. Sounds like the counsellor was as helpful as counsellors often are. (Don't you like my spelling of counsellor?)

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    1. Yes! Everyone needs to spell correctly in their respective countries!

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