GeniesLoki

So emotional reactions are things that you've learned from your environment, and were often adaptive strategies that served a purpose at the time, right? And one of the reasons to relearn them is that they were learned in childhood, and they may not work well as an adult.

A big reason kid emotions don't work well as an adult is that your environment is totally different - you have much more autonomy than you ever did as a kid. So far I knew this, but I had a realisation of another big reason kid emotions don't work well as an adult: kids are dumb

yeah but adults are too