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"When you’re a powerless kid, not one single fuck-up is small. Your security
and emotional wellbeing hangs entirely on the acceptance of the adults and
social systems that surround you. And you really don’t know what misstep will
lose you their support and protection. You have no idea whether this failing
grade will be the one that gets you kicked out of school, if that
unintentionally rude comment will be the one that loses you all your friends,
if this mess you made in your room will get you kicked out of your house.
In the eyes of the law, as a child you are your parent’s property, and when you
are mistreated you have nearly zero recourse. The world is guided by a series
of laws and rules that you are not privy to, with incarceration, starvation,
homelessness, and loneliness all waiting for you on the other side. Kids are
tiny unmoored aliens thrust into a menacing world that they do not understand,
and they have to spend the first two decades of their lives messily putting
together an understanding of that world’s rules."
Via Muse.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
