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Boy hits puberty at age 1
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valkillmore
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I bet it would in fact affect his ability to learn. Could also be the reason, as stated earlier, infants who suffer this affliction act out in anger, I'm guessing due to pure frustration.
Am I crazy or does this sound exactly like Autism?
Frozenprince
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Without bogging the thread down, from personal experience. Infants and toddlers need time to develop and conceptualize life. Reality. The rules and surroundings of where they find themselves.
He basically bypassed all of that without warning, it's probably a mixture of frustration and sheer, unending terror because he legitimately has no idea what is going on or who he even is.
SkeptiMism
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Do people with that condition live as long as people generally do? I remember there being some somewhat similar disease that makes one age a lot faster than what one would normally do. I dunno though, maybe I'm remembering it wrong and it's very different.
Either way, terrible for the kid and fuck that insurance company.
Either way, terrible for the kid and fuck that insurance company.
I am DYING. Lmao.
Permanently A
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The idea of having a somewhat mature brain but trapped in a body that doesn't know how to talk sounds horrifying.
shiftplusone
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I just thought about something
is the hormone therapy supposed to "roll back" the brain development as well?
Meaning that they are purposely retarding him just to make sure he has a chance later?
This is terrifying
It would.
A baby is born with more neurons than an adult. However, those neurons are not yet connected to accomplish any meaningful processing tasks. Which is why it takes years for a child to do anything other than express primitive reflexes such as the suckling reflex, why those reflexes are lost as the baby grows, and why those reflexes reappear in adults when parts of the brain are damaged.
So all these neurons fire when stimulated, not completely chaotically because the brain is primed to respond to certain stimuli like smiles, just as a baby bird is primed to respond to certain bird stimuli. The brain then determines which neurons are most needed, which are most effective, and which are not. Neurons that are not useful die off.
The purpose is to create an interconnected web of neurons that are very efficient (fast) at processing stimuli. Language is developed during that very critical period.
It might also affect the child's ability to see and hear normally, as those areas of the brain develop similar to language development.
For instance, if a baby is born with damage to one eye, it will learn to see the world in a certain way, as in it will have trouble processing patterns we take for granted. Similarly, a child raised in complete deprivation from language stimuli may be able to learn crude language as an adult, but never as fluently as a person raised as a normal child.
Obviously we can still learn as we grow older. However some of the fundamental systems we rely on, such as language and visual processing, have foundations in the brain maturation processes that take place during infancy.
FortuneFaded
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Sounds like Donald Trump.
efyu_lemonardo
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This is horrifying stuff. This child's experience is so remote from what we all take for granted I dearly hope he can be helped develop into a semi functional person.
goldsoundz
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Stifling the laughter in my office right now. Haven't seen this in 20 years.
This sounds kind of like progeria. There's no way this baby could live a normal life expectancy when he's hit puberty right out of the womb. Sounds completely fucked.
Manish Boy was the first thing to come to mind.
Didn't read the whole post, but hopefully he can lead a normal life.
Gentleman Jack
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I'd like to be hopeful but reading that his family's insurance won't cover the costs of, what, a decade+ worth of hormone therapy is worrying on that front. Who can a family in Mumbai even turn to if they can't afford it for that long?
DiipuSurotu
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This case sorta gives credence to the idea that an AI or sentient computer would be violent and unstable.
Holy shit LOL
wow
Neoriceisgood
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oh come on.
... That picture kinda reminds me of Roosh V.
Shotgun Kiss
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"Why don't you pick up that knife and stab yourself a few times? I'd do it myself, but my heart's so puny it can't pump enough juice to get my limbs to workin'."
I can't breathe
The Last Wizard
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spot on.
royalroyal
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lolol
George Oscar Bluth II
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Emerson
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Have you ever tried to fully restrain a young child*? They're way stronger than you think. Obviously we're not talking about the kid standing up and knocking the parents down, but if a baby had the muscle strength of a child even just a few years older it could be a real challenge to even change a diaper if the kid was fighting.
* (I work in the ER and we often have to restrain kids so I can do stitches and some other procedures, only giving context so people don't think I'm some sort of maniac)
Hyperactivity
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/toddler-precocious-puberty_uk_574ee027e4b0089281b4ffa9
Yeah, I can hardly believe it too
TheStruggler
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It's like a Marvel supervillian was born.
The reality is much more heartbreaking though. If the development was like that of a 12 year old does that mean they missed the opportunity to formulate those early connections? As in does this guarantee crippling developmental dissorders?
DiipuSurotu
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How come all these strange medical cases always seem to occur in India?
Lol. That seems accurate.
Reverend Funk
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there are a lot of people in india
crazygambit
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That seems like bullshit to me. That would mean there would have been around 70k cases of this by now. Seems way too high. Even if only boys get it, it still sounds like it should be much rarer than that.
Bad sanitation, poor living conditions, poverty, and people make a lot of babies. I think these are the likely causes.
Nothing wrong with that!
I can't imagine what he would be going through mentally as well.
BigBeauford
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esmith08734
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/thread. LMAO.
Hyperactivity
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Even if this statement seems really anecdotal (same way I imagine people see Florida incidents), might be the higher population
At least there seems to be a treatment for it. I imagine even this period of his life, or maybe him having to keep it secret, would still effect his life and experiences though
Fried Food
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That kid is going to be a beast at life when he gets older
CountAntonius
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Damn. So I see they put him on hormonal treatment.
kavanf1
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Over one seventh of the world's population lives in India.
dark_chris
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Lamel
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Precocious puberty is defined as before 9 years old for boys iirc. It just means earlier than usual puberty. Most cases aren't like this one.
Summer Haze
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The closest I've seen this before was when I dated someone with an 8 year old girl and a just-turned-1 year old girl.
The 8 year old was already almost five feet tall, and the 1 year old was too big for the toddler swings and I had to put her in the regular swings. She appeared as big as the 4 or 5 year olds also using the swings. Their mom was also pretty tall and was six foot by the time she turned 14.
I still had to hold her hands onto the swing chain since even though she was that big, she couldn't be taught to hold on and couldn't be taught the concept of pumping her legs to swing yet. People were telling me to let her figure it out, they couldn't believe she just turned 1.
There's a lot of cases of this, just not this early.
The 8 year old was already almost five feet tall, and the 1 year old was too big for the toddler swings and I had to put her in the regular swings. She appeared as big as the 4 or 5 year olds also using the swings. Their mom was also pretty tall and was six foot by the time she turned 14.
I still had to hold her hands onto the swing chain since even though she was that big, she couldn't be taught to hold on and couldn't be taught the concept of pumping her legs to swing yet. People were telling me to let her figure it out, they couldn't believe she just turned 1.
There's a lot of cases of this, just not this early.
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