Self awareness is exhausting because it ruins your own excuses. You can’t even ruin your life in peace anymore because you know exactly which old pattern you’re repeating. Ignorance is nolonger bliss,it becomes heavy responsibility.
everyone in the replies so shocked & appalled by the fact that a 10 year old can be depressed is the issue btw. why yall have adopted this mindset that children & teens can’t feel emotions so deeply to the point where they can consume you idk. no matter the age they’re humans
When people say "everyone is a little ADHD" I always want to be like oh word? you also frequently lose the physical ability to start basic tasks and just sit in a paralyzing cycle of shame while your life falls apart? or did you just forget where you put your keys?
Me: So when you see the 4 year old boy pull the little girl's hair...
Students: He likes her!
Me: Now they are around 11 or 12 and he grabs her arm and wrestles her to the ground even though she calls him a jerk and yells at him to leave her alone.
Students: That is just how boys are.
Me: Now they are 18 and he grabs her arm and--
Students: Oh, that's not okay.
Me: Really? How would he know? How would she know? How would you know? You just told me that for the first 17 years of these children's lives that you thought it was cute, sweet, and natural for a boy to grab a girl and be rough with her.
Students: Oh.
Me: Oh, is right.
the argument of "girls become women when they get their period" has always been outlandish to me because i got my period at 9 years old?? was i woman before i even hit double digits??