just let me mutate in peace

[johanna_hypatia]

I know what it's like to be the weird one in the family. I'm notorious. However, my gay cousin is absolutely normal...

I used to have a theory that I'm some sort of mutant because I was born in the late 1950s, right after there had been aboveground nuclear bomb tests, and radioactive fallout circled the globe.

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[catskillmarina]

"With genious comes a touch of madness" - A famous kids book author who happens to be my father.

[johanna_hypatia]

At camp I met a woman whose father had been flying in a plane to observe the first Trinity A-bomb test. We were born in the same year. She told me that when we were kids the schools were collecting all the baby teeth and sending them to government scientists to check the levels of radioactive strontium isotopes in the population. I had never heard of this before. I put it down to she had been to public school while I was in Catholic school, and learned to take it for granted that I missed a lot of whatever went on in PS. It was organized all differently.