Lili Padman

Yeah.

So during this year of therapy, you came to realize in some free association that you really still yearn for the biological.

Now, do you think you had a primary question about life in humans that you thought was going to be answered in psychoanalysis or the pursuit of it and the practice of it and that you saw in this epigenome work?

Well, maybe the answer lies over here or had not even occurred to you yet.

Do you think you had like a driving curiosity, like a primary question?

Okay, so I'll overshare with you.

So I ended up doing anthro, and I really think about why I did anthropology.

I think I was immediately drawn to the fact that, oh, there's a lot of different ways you can live.

And I think that was comforting because I felt like with the single mom and all these other things that we didn't click so well with the culture I inherited.

And so I was quite critical of the culture I inherited.

And I wanted to know, do we have any...

basis to think that this is the way we should do things.

So I guess I'm wondering for you, can you think of any kind of primary angst?

And by the way, I would say in probably the best motivated way possible, which is like intrinsically, it's not about getting the good grade.

It's not about getting the test right.

Were your parents divorced?

They're not divorced.

Now that we know a lot more about ADHD, the rigidity in the game plan, how much different that is for his experience than your mom's or other people's.

Definitely.

Maybe a little compassion.