Without reference to a larger dataset, the inference "I"m never sick because I played in the woods and ate weird stuff. If you get sick a lot, it's partially your fault because you didn't do that." could easily be replaced with "I'm never sick because I prayed to the right god every day. If you get sick a lot..."
could it be that some of the cases we see are linked to the nocebo (I think this is the word, opposite of placebo) effect?
People who are used to dirt knows that they'll handle this alright because they always have lived in these conditions? While people who grew up in cleaner conditions get tricket into a bad feedback loop where any sign of anything wrong gets amplified by the brain and fed back to the autonomous part of the nervous system? (I happily admit I'm on thin ice here.)
Placebo and nocebos are pretty strong effects. Recently we had an incident where a number of postal workers were sent to hospital with rashes after having handled a suspect package which contained white powder. The powder later turned out to be flour.
I have also managed to get, and cure myself from side effects by 1. Reading about the side effects and experience them first hand. 2. Get rid of them immediately once I could proove to myself that they were related to me thinking I had taken my pills, while they were actually still on the countertop.
I never implied that. If something, I said that too much pressure by society is making parents work harder, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
In terms of logical structure, taking an anecdote and universalizing it without a falsifiable explanatory mechanism is indistinguishable from blaming faraway natural disasters on other people sinning against the gods.
In both cases, people and society are held to be at least partially culpable for something bad that happened to them without presenting any evidence other than that they don't do all the same things that you do, and you're doing fine.
As a word, humblebrag is irritating to see in use, even if you are not its target.