Adults mostly operate within a mild gaslighting field where everyone jointly pretends various things to get along. Young children, and animals for that matter, don't do this, so you get shocked into operating closer to raw reality with them. https://twitter.com/awhitehouse104/status/1148981091753177088 …
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Two points. 1. Social norms can improve wellbeing for everyone (ref. “the civilizing process” in Better Angels by Steven Pinker). 2. “Reality” can be changed by how we perceive and conceptualize our feelings. It is hard to conclude that children are operating “closer” to reality
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