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Surgeons have to have really strong stomachs
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I still don't actually have a notable disgust response to most gross things. Gore makes me uncomfortable because of a quite severe fear of death, but that only applies to real people, so I can watch animated media with it, and be fine? I would blame /b/, and rotten for that, but I don't even think I had one back then? Even smells don't get to me.
Not sure if gore in a surgeon's context would get to me. I've definitely watched some surgery videos out of curiosity, and been fine?
Could be frontal lobe, could just be partial dissociation to get through it in your teenage years, who knows. We were on /b/ for a reason, after all, and it wasn't because we were happy with our situation