Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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?

I don’t want to derail your thread, but the honest answer is politics. I had a great deal of complex theory pushed on me long before I had context for it or any understanding of the world outside its confines, with poor results. No child should feel compelled to hate themselves.

This is one of the reasons I think kids should be allowed to be kids. It does them no good to be expected to be so far ahead of their peers just for the sake of being ahead

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