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My mother was a nurse. I could never be a nurse. She took care of people who were at deaths door. She cleaned up blood, poo, semen. She suffered racist abuse, w
by dazzawazza 4y ago
My mother was a nurse. I could never be a nurse. She took care of people who were at deaths door. She cleaned up blood, poo, semen. She suffered racist abuse, was physically attacked and hospitalised many times. She did this job for 45 years.
I could never do that because I just don't care about other humans like that. She had a different type of intelligence to me. She wasn't better than me, we were different, but it was a fundamental difference that could not be learned.
- dgb23 4y agoI lack the right words but, your mother sounds like an awesome person. > I could never do that because I just don't care about other humans like that. She had a different type of intelligence to me. She wasn't better than me, we were different, but it was a fundamental difference that could not be learned. A beautiful thing about us humans is that we are more similar than different in many ways, but our interests, tendencies and experiences draw us to certain individual behaviors, so we develop diverse skills, knowledge and temperaments. This duality is what I think makes us so powerful.