me brain lead
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Kokubunji, 2022.06.25
So it turns out that if you were born in North America between 1966 and 1975, there is a hundred percent certainty that you were exposed to harmful amounts of lead as a child. This would have been compounded by living next to a major highway (as I did from '71 through '78) and having any exposure to small plane engines, which I did from '71 through '91 at a minimum. Those small planes use 20x as much lead in their fuel as cars did at their peak. The average damage to a brain exposed to so much lead, in terms of IQ is 6 points.