#deatn note

How being a picture perfect son shaped him as a person?

Yagami’s family doesn’t pester psychopathic tendencies consciously. Some kids would seriously just try the thing that has “KILLS PEOPLE NO CONVICTION” to see if it works.

It needs to be noted that most seventeen-years olds consider other people as living beings and wouldn’t.

But the following plot of Death Note shows that Light didn’t value human life and felt himself superior; how did this happen? Being Kira filled his life with purpose as nothing before; how it came to be?

Discussion on relation of characters of DN to the autistic spectrum is still alive; and one might see some behavioural patterns in Light as sighs of autism, but that’s not to infantilise neurodivergent people. That’s to show that different ways of development need different types of parental attention; and that there are different types of neglect, and some of them can be masked by formal success.

But Light’s inner world, definitively different from his family, and definitively troubled, is not in a spotlight. Treating a growing person like they have capabilities and needs of a grown is neglectful.

And Yagami family continues that pattern, when they let Misa, a grown woman, in their house, when their child never shown any interest in her and was so visibly disturbed by her intrusion - because he’s treated like an adult. It continues, when Light forgets about Kira and inserts himself into the case, continuing abhorrently twisted relationship with another mistreated man, L.

In L’s case, we see deliberate neglect in different way, and him being stunted rather than really adapted to society shows that he’s treated like a function, not a person.

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