you do when you garden is not create the biggest potato or create the grandest orchid . What you do is create this ecosystem in which many many different things are possible. Many different things can happen. And that kind of asystem, one of the messages, the morals of biology is that that kind of system is much more resilient in the face of
and indiscretions of nations. Though orchid children are, as we will see in the pages to come, those especially responsive and tender to the manner in which we treat and protect our young, at the larger scale of human societies and populations, it is all children who
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. an orchid or a dandelion.
such a small company, you would've really had to strip out a sizeable percentage from other teams just to give it the engineers it deserved, because a lot of the engineers for Orchid were really concerned at that early point of moving it from the dot net code base to what Google normally runs on. So, but that's one that I can identify.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. are orchids or dandelions overlap some with these psychological disorders.
This is early signs of future mental illness. If an orchid child or a highly sensitive child is raised in a low stress environment, they have way fewer problems than a dandelion child. If they're in high stress environment, and this, again, is marital conflict, but it doesn't matter what the stress is, they have way more problems.
and maybe share a reading with us if you can get into the world-- Sure. --of "The Orchid and the Wasp." Sure. Good stuff. Thank you so much for coming out.
But yeah. And then after that, I think I wrote another practice novel. And then "Orchid " was the third novel that I wrote. And that's how I guess I'm here.
So I want to now share with you some of the scientific basis, really the scientific story, out of which the book grew. So "The Orchid and the Dandelion-- Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Survive." I am a sailor of small boats among other callings. And when I'm out on that brisk, blue San Francisco Bay, I am really attuned to the surface conditions
and epigenetic variation as well. So who are these orchid and dandelion children? Well, the dandelion children, in addition to being those who are low in reactivity, are often extroverted.
They have average health in both low- and high-stress settings. In contrast to the orchid children, who are often, though not universally, shy, they tend to withdraw from novel circumstances. They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. What allows an orchid child to thrive?
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. The kids who are orchid children who are very high in reactivity tend to be kids who are shy, behaviorally inhibited.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. that is an orchid child.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. So these orchid lives that can look troubled, especially early in life, can really blossom into lives that are truly exceptional, I think.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. Being an orchid child is nowhere in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual" of psychiatrists.
Seriously, it's like several months built up to like the-- That one scene, right? It's like an orchid that blooms and dies in the same day. It's care and concern, watering, and the perfect amount of sunshine for six months.
So that's a point there. And of course, this is gonna be interesting to see as Google gets more into Social stuff, too, because I do write about some of the missteps in Social. And I think Orchid 's another case where support could've put Google in a better position there though it was pointed out to me that to give it the support necessary, when Google was such a small company, you would've really had to strip out a sizeable percentage from other teams just to give it the engineers it deserved, because a lot of the engineers
and tender to the manner in which we treat and protect our young, at the larger scale of human societies and populations, it is all children who are the orchids of the world." So that gives you a little bit of a sense of where I'm headed this morning and where the book heads overall.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. Where do orchids come from?
He's looking at these moths unfurling that proboscis and really interested in demonstrating exactly how insects lock and key sort of relationships are fitting with their orchids . And that's just one little bit of his adventures in pollination.
They're robust, and they can flourish in lots of places. Others are more like orchids . They're delicate, and they need just the right temperature.
Thank you so much. We've been ORCHIDS . Thank you for having us.
Martha Stewart: They are beautiful. Succulents and ORCHIDS and roses. Very beautiful. No, you can't decorate a place like this.
Initially, when I would mix up my soil, I only use perlite. Now I'm hydrating coco coir and orchid bark, but that's for later. You just start-- That's the-- --with perlite.
But what's interesting about that is this has implications for what's called planetary protection, which means we have to look and trace as best we can, is there any molecules that we're There's a new company called Orchid which is trying to roll this out, where they look at both parents and help with embryo selection.
And they didn't fare nearly as well as the other, the larger percentage, the 80%. So we call them the orchids , like an orchid requires a lot of TLC to keep it alive. So if you go out, and buy an orchid , and take it home, and you just put it in the middle of your kitchen table
It has to have just the right kind of care. And I mentioned how beautiful this orchid was before we started, and I said, who's taking care of this orchid ? And I was told that an entire team of people are here to take care of these plants.
We're sitting with a future Pulitzer Prize winner here, I'll have you know. So Caoilinn is the author of "The Orchid and The Wasp," and it was shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Award and the literary awards, and nominated for the Authors' Best First Novel Award.
So thank you for coming. So the novel is called "Orchid and the Wasp," and a little bit of an access point is the title, which refers to a type of orchid in Western Australia that resembles a wasp.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. to affect whether a child becomes an orchid child or a dandelion child.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. seem to enhance the life of orchid children and allow them to flourish.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. It's especially true of orchid children.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. So that is the story of the orchid and the dandelion.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. My wife and I had an orchid daughter and a dandelion son who once were teenagers, but now are almost 40.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. But some of the characteristics of orchid children do tend to overlap with known psychiatric syndromes.
Those are the pollenia. Those are the pollen packets of the orchid . And the drawing here is from Darwin's orchid book.
For early modern men and women, you eat your food, it sits in the stomach, gets converted into blood, blood circulates around the body, ends up in the testicles, It's a type of orchid .
And then it just, and you take a selfie. And then you slowly-- the orchid falls off and. You were sucking in the whole movie.
So the first thing you want to do is get a soil amendment, and you can start with the basic of all of them. You can move in later on into your orchid barks and all of that, but at least get a bag of perlite to mix in with your soil.
And given the right support, that sensitivity can blossom into lives of great joy, success, and beauty. As I map out the defining feature of orchid lives, I will also reflect upon those of us more aligned with a dandelion's way of being and will take note of how essential, how vital, such individuals are to what George Eliot referred to as the growing good of the world.
Though distinctive in several dimensions, dandelions have their own life struggles and challenges that will be important to understand and define. We will also discover that beneath the serviceable categories of orchid and dandelion lies the truer reality of a continuum, a spectrum of sensitivities to the world, along which we all have a place.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. But our daughter, the orchid , as a child, she just could not stand to have her socks wrinkled inside of her shoes.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. In talking about balancing the fear and mastery for orchid children, because they're going to go off in the world and leave
Those are the pollen packets of the orchid . And the drawing here is from Darwin's orchid book. He's looking at these moths unfurling that proboscis and really interested in demonstrating exactly how insects lock and key sort of relationships
like um for example like areas like in Hawaii they grow vanilla but they don't have the right bugs to kind of deliver and pollinate so they have to hand pollinate every single Orchid you know and they have like a 3-day window and so they're talking thousands and th and if they hand pollinate it that doesn't mean they're going to hit the mark you know
They're so gorgeous. They're green, they're plump, they're curvy, their meaty, they're delicious, they're shiny, they're incredible. And that's the only place where the orchid or vanilla grew.
And we can call these highly sensitive children and adults orchids .
So 15% are the slow to warm up, and 10% are difficult. And we can call these highly sensitive children and adults orchids . The research on animals-- these are just three distinct studies that give us a really good idea.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. that, like orchids , are especially sensitive to both the good and bad rearing conditions that they experience.