I had read this story a couple years back and the way Steven Pete remembers Child Protective Services is a bit different from how his mum remembers it:
> Once, CPS told the Petes they wanted to remove Steven, then a toddler,
> for two months of observation at a Seattle hospital.
>
> "I said to them, 'OK, but will somebody be watching him 24 hours a
> day?' They said, 'Oh yes.' "
>
> In the hospital, "He broke his foot, and they didn't discover it until
> a day and half later. They had no idea when or how it happened. Child
> Services said they realized what we were going through. They worked
> with us on it. They were really nice."
Anyway, this community, I think, cares a lot about pushing yourself to succeed, but knows the price of burnout that can be associated with that. These people just have this physically: rather than some sort of abstract 'laziness' we normally have 'pain' which slows us down, and while pushing past a little pain is usually good -- it gets you running and developing muscle -- there is serious pain which tells you 'something is wrong, you're about to injure yourself' which you fortunately can't easily push past. Well, these guys can, and it leads to real injury. There's a deep connection here somewhere between the mental fatigue and physical fatigues.
Anyway, this community, I think, cares a lot about pushing yourself to succeed, but knows the price of burnout that can be associated with that. These people just have this physically: rather than some sort of abstract 'laziness' we normally have 'pain' which slows us down, and while pushing past a little pain is usually good -- it gets you running and developing muscle -- there is serious pain which tells you 'something is wrong, you're about to injure yourself' which you fortunately can't easily push past. Well, these guys can, and it leads to real injury. There's a deep connection here somewhere between the mental fatigue and physical fatigues.