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How childhood environmental exposure shapes identity questions

I grew up drinking well water that I now know was contaminated and I wonder if that explains why I have always felt different and struggled with things other people find easy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The retroactive discovery of toxic exposure creates uncertainty about which aspects of selfhood are intrinsic versus environmentally influenced.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Environmental health — toxins and exposures?”

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