If you're comfortable sharing, what's something that an adult told you when you were young that — intentions aside — had a memorably negative impact on you?
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also kids are fucking morons about anything complex or how the adult world works. the political opinions of teenagers, for example, should be considered inconsequential to adults. I know this is frustrating to teenagers, but them's the breaks
I... get it, but I *really* don't like the phrasing, because kids are actually really good at modeling the world on features made salient to them, and it's really not their fault that their inexperience is acutely exacerbated by adults manipulating their experiences & access
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fair enough, but I really do think that children are less intelligent than adults. or perhaps "intelligent" isn't the right word, although it does have to do with cognitive developmental stages. they both lack data and processing ability
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granted, some kids are smarter and better aligned to reality than some adults. but if you look at the clusters of people under, say, 25, and the people over that age, I think the latter group is much closer to a realistic perception of the world
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Well said. There’s also a unique sort of pain that a child faces when all that they can see, all that they think they know about the world, conflicts with what their parent clearly needs them to appear to believe. A child must ask, over and over, what their own judgment is worth.
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I think kids are highly sensitive to what they need to do to survive, but they're not self-consciously realistic in the way that an adult can be. They rarely actually understand the dynamics of the adult social situations that affect their lives
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