Likely something upper respiratory in my early years, otherwise at 43 from gastro issues.
Toss up between asthma in early years or thyroid tumor at ~18. Certainly would have bit it by 20.
Bronchitis in childhood and if I survived that, pancreatitis in my mid 20s
Tough to say what I would’ve contracted without vaccines. But the upper bound is 10, when I had pneumonia and relied on antibiotics.
My upper bound would be age 6, when I got some sort of stomach flu and had to be hospitalized with an IV because I was constantly vomiting and couldn’t even keep liquids down, so I was getting dangerously dehydrated. I was so dehydrated it took 14 tries to find a vein and start the IV (actually, I think the number might be higher, but that’s the number sticking out right now). Even on a good day mine are still hard to find, but that was not a good day.
Yeah I got it and strep real bad at the same time around then, the pneumonia actually turned to pleurisy. Wasn’t doing too great for a few days.
Tbh I might not have made it that far, I got sick quite a bit as a kid.
Psh, they had moldy cheese back then
Maybe during one of the first years following high school. I’d have probably died of cardiac arrest after going into supraventricular tachycardia for the dozenth time with no way of stopping it.
I’d have no teeth and probably would have died from malnutrition by now. Also Smallpox, Polio, Mumps, Measles etc. People have no idea how many lives vaccines have saved
I almost certainly would have died to “pray the autism/ADHD away” evolving into “kill him, he’s a demon” related causes
as for what age I’m not sure but I think saying I’d make it to 12 is optimistic
VERY glad I was born to loving parents who knew I was autistic before I did, followed doctor’s advice, and fought to get me accommodations ij school
nah, medieval europeans (that’s a very very very broad terms, just so we’re aware) seem to have mostly just viewed noticably neurodivergent people as “mentally challenged” and infantilized them more than anything.
Apparently there was also a good chance that if you were autistic and decent at communicating, you could be taken on as a court jester and given quite free reign to criticize powerful people, because as it turns out having someone who isn’t a yes-man is pretty useful when you’re a ruler who wants their nation to not collapse under them.
There’s much less of that in medieval times than what TV would have you believe. Plenty of people were just labelled “crazy” or “weird” and few made a wide enough impact to attract the ire of people who actually cared enough to kill someone.
The fact that ADHD is hereditary should tell us how few were killed for it.
People forget that humans are social creatures, we don’t just up and kill anyone who is different (as a rule). We also have barely changed since medieval times, so sympathy and empathy are just as present now as they were back then - we just have a better understanding of things now and so we think we are labelling things a bit better than we were a few hundred years ago. And in another few hundred years we’ll be better at labelling still. But we’ll still be labelling.
I died in the crusades.
love how you said this in past tense like it actually did happen just not in this lifetime
I got better.
I think she’s wrong in one way, and most modern women, if thrown back to the middle ages, would be labeled witches. I’m like 5’9", think that would make me too obvious.
But if born there, I’d most likely have bled to death with my firstborn, so 22, unless mumps was fatal back then, that would put me dead at 4. Also would have been functionally blind, profoundly nearsighted.
Though thinking about it another way, I am descended from so many people who survived back then, so maybe would be fine, at least to that first childbirth, and with a good midwife maybe longer.
You would likely be shorter due to malnourishment during childhood
However people overvalue height differences, you would find tall people still
unless mumps was fatal back then
Still can be fatal today depending on what swells, but we have the vaccine to prevent it
Also would have been functionally blind, profoundly nearsighted
Glasses were invented in the middle ages so you might have been saved
Recent findings have revealed that women who were accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake were actually homeowners, and the town authorities were using those threats of witchcraft accusations as an excuse to shoink the homes and make sure only men would be homeowners.
Source: I read it on reddit 🤷🏻♀️
Asthma age 4
Broke my arm at 12, not sure how well it would’ve healed
how long would you have lived
no.
my mother(her anti-bodies) would have killed me in the womb :D
TIL that being allergic to your own baby is a thing that can happen
I swear, the more I learn about biology the more shocked I am that we’ve survived 4 billion years
Fun fact, after you have a kid with someone the mother can no longer receive organs from you, even if you were comparable previously. It’s because the baby is partially composed of the fathers proteins, and although the immune system is suppressed during pregnancy, it still recognizes those proteins. So the next time it encounters them, it considers them a foreign invader and attacks them, leading to an automatic rejection of the organ.
I didn’t have anything major, but I got strep a lot as a kid, a couple times a year or so. Without antibiotics, it might’ve caused permanent damage.
Not life threatening but I have terrible eye sight. Enough that I wouldn’t be a good farmer, everything I did would have to be within 2-3 feet of me.
everything I did would have to be within 2-3 feet of me.
Look at Mr eagle eyes over here. Capable of seeing distances in excess of 5 cm. Show off
What can I say, I can vaguely see things at arms length.
Two… three… days.
I was really, really ill as a baby.
Was about to say if make it to adulthood, but then I remembered I was a strep throat and ear infection magnet. Usually requiring antibiotics…
