The Orchid and the Dandelion | Thomas Boyce | TEDxPaloAlto
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Dr. W. Thomas Boyce is a pediatrician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. His research addresses individual differences in children's biological susceptibility to social contexts, such as the family, classroom and community. His work, which has generated over 200 scientific publications, demonstrates that a subset of children ("orchid children") show exceptional biological sensitivity to their social environments and bear higher risks of illness and developmental disorders in settings of adversity and stress.
Taken together, findings from his research suggest that the supportiveness of early environments have important effects on all children's health and well-being and are the subject of his recently published book entitled The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive.
Previously, Dr. Boyce was Associate Dean for Research in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the BC Leadership Chair in Child Development at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He co-directs the Child and Brain Development Program for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, is a member of the JPB Foundation Research Network on Toxic Stress in Children, serves on the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Academies of Science, and was elected in 2011 to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Just hearing about this gives me so much ease. I'm definitely an orchid that was raised in the cracks of a sidewalk... needless to say I've not been doing great. This validates and soothes me on a profound level. Seriously man, I can't put into words what you did for me today. THANK YOU ❤🤍🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤
I'm actually a physician lol. Getting half a mind to contact you in professional regard. Not sure if my choice of vocation has been a compensation for my anxieties though. But if I were to stay in medicine, this would be very high on my list of what I'd like to work on. Probably highest.
Love you Dr. W. Thomas Boyce :)
😢 from one orchid to another ❤
A beautiful tribute to Mary
This explains so much about my bed-sharing, sensitive toddler. She has needed me day and night (has woken nearly hourly) since she was a young infant and having this understanding of her needs helps me to have more compassion for her struggle.
Saw this in person and he is amazing at what he does and it’s oddball to say two things I’ve had challenges in my life, so yeah, I am an orchid in my opinion and number two and the most important. The author of the book is actually my uncle.❤
How did your family treat you growing up? Do you think they were highly nurturing? I am currently raising an orchid myself. She is a lot but I am trying to respect her as much as my mental health can handle. Any advice for me?
Excellent talk overall and a concept I very much agree with. I think there may be two errors which are worth noting to ensure the important messages aren't lost or confused:
11:16 "The dandelion children are those who showed the pattern of high reactivity..." should be "the orchid children..."
14:02 "So what allows a dandelion child to thrive?" should be "So what allows an orchid child to thrive?" (the point of this is that dandelion children are more likely to thrive in many or most conditions anyway. It is *specifically* the orchid children that benefit most from higher levels of support and the 'right' environments.
Absolutely right!
Excellent work, Dr. W. Thomas Boyce! Your research will make positive change in the destinies of many families and children. Your book is life-changing. Thank you
I have long thought that there are massive overlaps between orchids, HSPs (highly sensitive people), academically 'gifted' people, and those on the Autistic Spectrum. The latter of which is far, far wider than is currently generally understood - there is a whole generation who have felt 'different' their wholes lives but have never understood why. In many of these groups there is an exquisitely sensitive wiring (in 'gifted' speak, this is described as part of 'Dabrowski's Overexcitibilities' (or OEs)), especially to sensory input (which would have a knock-on effect to neurotransmitter production and therefore behaviour).
These are not different traits - they are one and the same, simply viewed through different lenses. In addition, I think certain genetic 'mutations' (e.g. the MTHFR gene) and the gut microbiome play a major part too and will impact the epigenetics. It'll be interesting to see what future research uncovers. Here's hoping researchers start to join the dots.
That's really insightful. Thanks for sharing ❤❤
Being HSP is 100% separate from being autistic and also being gifted. It’s something that’s observed in many other animals studied not just humans. Autism is also not genetic at all and no one is born with autism. I see people say this all the time that because autistic people are often gifted and over reactive to stimulus and are thinking a lot that there’s some connection. It’s complete nonsense. Plenty of people are sensitive and not autistic like myself lol. Anyone can become autistic which like you said has a lot to do with gut bacteria. Please stop spreading misinformation thanks
Please stop making things up thanks
@@jj7546 That's just your opinion - mine is different. I have spent the past 10 years researching so I'm comfortable with my understanding.
Yes. Being an Orchid is also heavily correlated with being an Introvert on Myers Briggs (70% of them are Introverts according to Elaine Aron), being a 5 or 4 on the Enneagram and being a Melancholic in the Classical Temperaments
@@HamPilgrimBL Agreed. I'm an INFP (I think we make up around 5% of the population apparently). Every single INFP I know also considers themselves to be HSP, an empath, or an orchid. All are also on the Autism Spectrum, and gifted. And it's those of us (like you and me, and others) that can see all the overlaps - who are also natural pattern finders. We're often able to join the dots that others can't even see.
Please share, 'spread the seeds' to nurture our orchids 😊 What else could I comment in aftermath of this highly powerful and (on so many levels) important talk, findings and conclusions 🌱
I really wonder who started cutting onions at 16:05. Damn onions!!!
Beautiful and inspiring lecture!
Wonderful work. And moving. Thank you Sir.
We are living in a time of resurgent disregard for the worlds most vulnerable. Thanks doc, someone needs to address the elephant in the room. Matthew 18:6 If anyone causes one of these little ones-those who believe in me-to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Wonderful work!!
The quality of your Orchids is the quality of your civilization. If Orchids don't have better life outcomes than Dandelions, you know you're living in a failing society/civilization.
Well put
I’m reading the book now and I need a dictionary because these are not words I hear everyday. It’s taking me a long time to finish the book. This ted talk does help though:
Yeah, it's written in a really dry, academic style. My sister recommended it to me because she and I are both orchids, and I can think of many people I've known who likely were too. Unfortunately, I can't recommend the book to most of them because of that difficult writing style. I wish there was a simpler, "for dummies" version.
@@asrexproductions I agree ☝️
@@asrexproductions I've read it too. The book I read before that, 'The Highly Sensitive Person' by Dr Elaine Aron, has strong parallels between orchid and highly sensitive people (HSPs). I've personally found it really helpful as she has more of a coaching style with practical suggestions and exercises. There is still research in the book so some parts may have scientific terms, but overall I would highly recommend it.
There is also an hour-long documentary (Sensitive The Movie) if you prefer visuals to words. Hope this helps you both
I read a NYT article about Orchids, Dandelion and also Tulips too? Are Tulips really a category?
TED, if you start showing a slide, dont cut out from until the lecturer's done talking about it. Immensely distracting and disruptive of listening flow.
Yo all you orchids over 40, how are you guys doing! Still withering? Or did you find some miraculous medicine? The sweet Dr.Thomas didn't go that deep. Asking for a friend.
His point was not that orchids wither but that they have a wider variation in outcomes. Nurture has a much larger effect on orchids than on dandelions.
40ish orchid here from a nurture-poor background. I am cultivating my own nurturing environment these days to help with my mental health and overall wellbeing. I am flourishing :)
@@sleepytiger7248 I came to the same realization as you... You got to create your own nurturing environment. Happy for you...Keep flourishing Tiger!
I must be a hybrid then.
same.
my theory is that dandelion children will become dog people whereas orchid children will become cat people...
I beg to differ. Definitely an orchid, but totally into dogs. Just love the variety of breeds and temperament. We have 2 Chihuahua sisters, optically and temperamentally two totally different little ladies.
I like cats, but I love dogs... so I'd say theory falsified.
Maybe you need a bigger sample, though.
It is so annoying everyone trying to generalize sensitive people. Sensitive people can literally be any personality trait..
It is not true. I am orchid, and I am a dog people
Orchid here, and am a dog person.
I'm both lol I love all animals I just hate humans tho
Chronic biomedical disorder at 11 what does that even mean? A few nights out with some trustworthy friends on MDMA would cure this..
*doc still rockin' it wit casper, elmo and mr snuffleupagus*