I Was Abused

but if a middle schooler is freaking out in public because someone was refusing to let her call her father for help, should the response should be restraining the child and breaking her wrist in the process?

if a teenager is sobbing hysterically in an alley, should they be publicly shamed? should anyone who attempts to help them be physically prevented from doing so?

if a severely ill adult needs emergency medical care, should they be left in a room alone for hours on end and denied care for days?

no?? then why is it okay in a psych ward? every time you justify abuse and neglect of patients by clinicians under the pretext of it being "for their own good", this is what you are endorsing. THIS is what they use that rational to do. these are all real things i've experienced (either first or second hand), and it's only one example from each ward.

this is something I had to learn the hard way. doctors often dress up their words all pretty so you can’t sue them. I, for a long time, mistook this as genuine kindness. It’s not. It’s just being professional. even if they didn’t call you a slur or anything that doesn’t mean they weren’t ignoring your needs.

In that case you try to assimilate, you try to be like the boss. But with this kind of mentality there's no way possible that you can make a revolution.

Even if they have genuinely loving families that don't neglect them, which is rare, children are still put under constant abuse from every other aspect of their life. They're living on ultra-mega-hard-mode. Emotions are understandable.

I also completely understand people who can't be around loud children, or who hate it when a kid breaks down crying or screaming in a store or a restaurant. I hate it when a kid breaks down crying or screaming in a restaurant or store. Like, that's not an unreasonable feeling to have when someone is making an uncomfortable amount of noise. I get it. You don't want that kid to be crying or screaming any more than they want to be doing it.

At this stage in my life, it's completely alien to me, and it makes me deeply sad. The worst part is that there's rarely any malicious intent behind it. They simply don't realize how harmful the rhetoric they're feeding into is. These are people who genuinely suffer, but are so unwilling to accept that their suffering isn't a random fluke of their biology—it's a product of the world we live in, which is governed by cruel and inhumane norms.

I don't blame them. Capitalism is so soul-crushing that it's easier to say "maybe I'm the problem." I can understand not wanting to look the reality of this world in the eyes.

But it's hard to imagine genuinely being friends with someone who's fully bought into the propoganda that any deviation from the norm is a sign of inherent brokenness. Even if they don't mean any harm.

And the vast, vast majority of people believe this.

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

In any functional society, these are not "extra credits"; they are the baseline legal requirements of a guardian.

Providing calories and a roof does not grant a license for physical and mental attacks, nor does it buy immunity from the consequences of those attacks.

-P.T.E, 2026