According to psychology, being the "good, low maintenance" child isn't a sign of innate maturity. It is a survival strategy known as parentification or fawning. You subconsciously recognized that your caregivers were too emotionally overwhelmed, volatile, or fragile to handle your age appropriate needs. You swallowed your own childhood and became invisible just to keep the peace
Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.
Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.
The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.
Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.
The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.
The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.
In Canada, a cat was trapped inside a house during a fire. Firefighters entered the house to rescue the cat, but no matter what they did, the cat wouldn’t come out. Instead, it meowed at a firefighter and tried to lead him toward the kitchen. The firefighter followed the cat 😿
The cat stopped in front of a cabinet in the kitchen and tapped on it with its paws, asking for it to be opened. When the firefighter opened the cabinet, he saw that the mother cat had hidden her kitten there to protect it from the fire 🐾. The mother cat showed the firefighter where her baby was, making sure it would be rescued 🥺❤️
Truly emotional moments… A mother’s heart always thinks of her child first, even in the hardest times 💔❤️🩹
oomf urgently called to inform us that his friend ate shit biking on the west side highway bike path and a man helped him up + asked if he was ok and when he looked up it was none other than mayor zohran mamdani on his citibike. closest you can get irl to being saved by spiderman
Freud dizia que a gente não repete escolhas porque gostamos de sofrer, a repetição existe porque o inconsciente tenta, desesperadamente, criar um final diferente pra mesma história.
WHY NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS......
Some people grew up in homes where their parents fought constantly. Where they fell asleep to the sound of arguments. Where they walked into rooms and immediately felt the tension in the air. Nobody ever explained what was happening. They just felt it. All of it. Alone. As children who had no choice but to absorb everything around them.