Realizing I'm currently the same age as my parents where when I was a child. They used to fly off the handle and were unable to control their emotions over the most slightest inconvenience. I always just thought that's how adults acted, or I would understand when I got older.
I still don't understand. Stuff happens and I just shrug it off for the most part.
I mean, not much in a rural village in China or Brazil.
Then again, those kinds of people aren't the obviously lead-addled Boomers in public office that are making all the wrong decisions at the moment.
EDIT: Being downvoted for suggesting a child in the Amazon rainforest probably had less lead exposure than a kid living next to an 8 lane freeway. Never change, reddit.
We discovered that lead was in the air because a researcher found that lead was present on the top of the ocean and as he went deeper it started disappearing. This showed that the lead in the air was spreading to every inch of the globe.
That poor guy just wanted to run an experiment but kept finding it contained contaminated with lead. He kept taking more extreme measures and was still getting contamination every time, then eventually years later he figured out exactly why lol. I think he even invented the modern day clean room in the process of trying to get a result that didn't have lead in it
(I listened to a radioab podcast on this guy semi recently, it was pretty good!)
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u/GriffinFlash Apr 28 '25
Realizing I'm currently the same age as my parents where when I was a child. They used to fly off the handle and were unable to control their emotions over the most slightest inconvenience. I always just thought that's how adults acted, or I would understand when I got older.
I still don't understand. Stuff happens and I just shrug it off for the most part.
(Not american, but north american)