Nadine Harris Analysis

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I watched the ted talk with the speaker Nadine Harris. It was very interesting especially when she talk about the pattern on childhood adverse experiences and health outcomes. It has inverse relationship which the higher your score, the worse off you could be. I don’t know if this is the case for her growing up, but I do know she does not talk to her family. We never really got close because it was a coworker, but we do talk sometime in between breaks. It hard for me to imagine how parents not really love their kid but than I have to remind myself that I was pretty lucky. With everything in life there is a scale from low to high and in between. If that is the case, sooner or later I will run into those who not as lucky to me.

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