*This is just for fun. Tongue-in-cheek, no offense meant to anyone.*
X-Files has always been one of my all-time favourite shows, and a few years ago I started getting it on DVD, partly as motivation for weight-loss/exercise.
Halfway through the first season is the episode “Young at Heart.” It involves agents Mulder and Scully investigating a murder in a prison. This eventually leads them to the National Institute of Health and the case of a doctor who, years earlier, had been performing illegal, genetic experiments on children with Progeria in an attempt to reverse the aging process.
In and of itself, it's not a very scary episode. However, I was watching this early in 2016, mere months after the Joubert syndrome conference in Chicago. The National Institute of Health (NIH) is a major centre for research of Joubert syndrome and several specialists are regular conference guests. Many individuals, including myself, have been seen or monitored by someone from NIH at the conferences, with some going to the facility for testing.
X-Files has always been one of my all-time favourite shows, and a few years ago I started getting it on DVD, partly as motivation for weight-loss/exercise.
Halfway through the first season is the episode “Young at Heart.” It involves agents Mulder and Scully investigating a murder in a prison. This eventually leads them to the National Institute of Health and the case of a doctor who, years earlier, had been performing illegal, genetic experiments on children with Progeria in an attempt to reverse the aging process.
In and of itself, it's not a very scary episode. However, I was watching this early in 2016, mere months after the Joubert syndrome conference in Chicago. The National Institute of Health (NIH) is a major centre for research of Joubert syndrome and several specialists are regular conference guests. Many individuals, including myself, have been seen or monitored by someone from NIH at the conferences, with some going to the facility for testing.
While watching the episode, I heard "rare disorder", "children" and "testing", and horror scenarios started playing in my head, involving myself or others I'd only just gotten to know getting microchips, symbiotes, or some other kind of nefarious implant. I stopped the episode immediately and haven't been able to watch it since! Scarier to me than "Home", the infamous inbred hillbilly episode.
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So, I know nothing like this would ever happen in real life. No doctor I've ever met is going "mad scientist" on anyone with JS. It's just the disabled and geeky parts of my brain coming together in a twisted way, and a story I've wanted to share for many years, but haven't had the guts to.
Cheers!
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