Birb

We were so close to the scene. My children, my injured husband, and I slept in the street, with no walls to protect us and nowhere to go. We woke up to fear, smoke, and the sound of explosions, and to one question that kept repeating itself: Where do we go?

My children were only looking for safety 🕊️, my injured husband was trying to appear strong despite the pain ❤️‍🩹, and I was just trying to keep us together 🤲.

Elliot thinks it's strange that Harley doesn't want to have fun or takes the work completely seriously.

If this were an older group of children, then would that not be the bare minimum expectation? You wouldn't be surprised that they took the work fully seriously, you would be irritated that anyone didn't take the work seriously.

He also is surprised Harley doesn'n want to have fun. In a science program geared at older children, "fun" would not be upfront and it would not be a surprise Harley didn't do it. This to me makes Elliot's treatment of Harley even more ridiculous. In the older days sometimes teenagers were parentified and treated as adults, but Elliot is clearly writing in his own words a little boy who isn't acting like a normal little boy, and then acknowledging that he is still dealing with a young child.

And so,

I would put Harley as 10 - 12 at most, based on Elliot's own notes about what was normal for someone of Harley's age group.

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