Do you think you would have been a different person if you had different parents?

I think I would be a different person than who I am now. But, I would like to think that I'd have a lot of the same ideas, morals, and values that I do now.

Yes. Or if my parents had really wanted a kid, things could have been quite different. IMHO, kids who are raised by parents who really want kids and are serious about being good parents have more of a chance to succeed in life even IF they are born with disabilities. If you ignore a kid, like keeping it in a playpen for hours with no stimulation, this is not good for the baby's development and I think more and more people are becoming aware of this. I believe it does makes a big difference how much attention you pay to a baby in its early years of life, and of course if that attention is positive and not abusive.

How can I know? It would have changed me, I imagine, in some ways but not make me a completely different person. Nothing could make me a completely different person. Now I only thought of this in the idea of if these different parents weren't selfish alcoholics. Maybe they were physically violent selfish alcoholics. In that case it would change some but not make me a completely different person.

I feel we're predestined.

I had wonderful parents. They were not perfect, but overall they were good people. I feel blessed to have had them as my parents.

Hell yes I would have been different. There are so many reasons why....

I was raised by wolves.

Certainly a large part of our upbringing is conditioning based on the experiences we have as we grow up, and our parents are a large part of those experiences. My genetics determine a spectrum of potentials for me; my conditioning determines details.

Yes, definitely.

Given that everyone I know who has different parents (and that would be everyone excluding my brother) is not me, I would think that the obvious answer is "Yes".

Yes, though only the outer layers and probably not that different. But, I'm sure my parents had a major effect on me.

Yes, different parents would have made me different. My dad was very military in his raising us. Things were always clean and organized. He raised us to be accountable for our actions. I have met people who's parents were passive and these people tend to have problems with accountability. And other things. I am not sure I would have been completely different, but I know it makes some difference. I am not one who believes in either Nature verses Nurture. I think its a combination of the two that makes you who you are.

Of course.

Naturally, so much of who we are is environmental.

Of course I would be different.

Yes, different parents would have made me someone else.
I owe my parents so much in how I turned out.
They taught me it's important to get an education and not mess around in school like they did.

I might even be normal.

Depends a lot on how much like my real parents they were.

Of course. I wouldn't have the same genetic make-up, and the values my other parents would have instilled in me might not be the same. And who knows where I would be born and what the living conditions there would be. All that would make it that nature and nurture would be completely different, and would make me into someone completely different.

I think some things would be different but I don't know how much different.

Of course; I inherited much of what I am from my parents. Having different parents would have made me someone else altogether.

Well, yes.

the circumstances i lived with and currently live with "I believe would be different" but I would be the same.

Duhh. Your parents are a major factor in who you are in life. Different parents obviously different result.

Definitely... When I was born, I was immediately put in an orphanage and spent most of my first year there. I suffer from Reactive Attachment Disorder from being in there now and cannot feel emotions, in other words I am emotionally numb. If my mother had been able to keep me, I would have been able to form an attachment to her and learn to love and feel... As it is, I could care less about anyone and do not love and have not ever felt love, not even for my kids...

like, maybe 50/50. 75-25 I would be different.

Yes different parents who would have accepted me as female and as Miss Jessica, which was not the case for me at the time of my birth, I was born the person I am no longer am right now at this time and place, for I am the woman I should have been at the time of my birth, life is soo screwed up these days

> Duhh. Your parents are a major factor in who you are in life. Different
> parents obviously different result.

I can agree with what you are saying because' I was born the person, that I am no longer am today, and I have gone thru transition into the woman I should have been and life sucks' and life is soo screwed' up these days, and having different parents might have made all the difference in my life today. Some people just do not understand transgendered people and who we are male or female

TTLY! My parents suck ass.

It makes no difference. The universe is merely a figment of my imagination.

But abnormal is much more fun. Personally I'm an eclectic eccentric---or would be were I rich. Since I'm poor the term is crazy nut.

You crazy nut you!

I don't know. I wonder if I would have turned out differently if I'd been raised by both of my parents instead of just my dad.

YES ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Well, duh.

Life experiences help shape who we are. Different ='s different.

Yes

Since I was raised from age four by my paternal grandmother & step grandfather, I was raised by different parents.

Since I was adopted & raised from age four by my paternal grandmother & step grandfather, I was raised by different parents. My biological mother was an alcoholic & later in life, my biological father became one too. I like to think that I had a better upbringing with my adopted parents, but this is something that I have no absolute proof about.