the trekking of the stars

@sirknightart

what Julian needed from them was work and effort. I say this from experience as I am dyslexic and my mother (bless her) worked with me every single day for YEARS to make sure me and my brother (who is also dyslexic) didn't 'fall behind'.

I feel like they did try all sorts of things to help Julian, I really do, they must have tried things like glasses, meds or therapies and things like that.

But I think they didn't realise that sometimes you just need to (for lack of a better term) do it yourself. they needed to step up in ways they were not prepared to do, that is doing hard work every day for years and you may never ever get the result you WANT OUT OF THEM, and that is a bitter pill for people (and parents) to sallow.

and none of this is even touching on the fact they wanted Julian to be exceptional in someway.

the part that was really disturbing to me is that, not only do they not seem to care about the immorality of altering a living breathing person that way (especially since he didn’t even understand what was going on), but we also find out later just how risky of a procedure it is.

on top of that, the episode is framed like it wants you to feel bad for them and understand why they had to do what they did. but the reason they did it was because they’re not good parents, and there were other ways, albeit ones that required like… actual effort from them. like in the episode they act like the only way to help him was to edit his literal dna, as if people today, who don’t even have that option, can’t help their kids when they’re struggling ??