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2/? And that's just so unhelpful for everyone else tbh. It's a thing you have to have before the trauma, so no use once you're hurt. But more importantly, it probably isn't learnable. Some people are just born with a really high bar for triggering PTSD, and some people aren't. Some of the talk about resilience comes across like "have you tried being one of those people who doesn't have panic attacks after rape?" It's not useful, and it tends to focus on the person rather than the situation.

3/3 It can feel victim blamey. Like "well, other children weren't traumatised by that, so if you were it's your fault". Especially when no one has any actual programs or anything to build resilience to traumatic events/miserable grinding conditions etc. It can just amount to basically telling people to try harder not to have mental health problems.

That’s fair, and I think this is another example of word use issues, kind of like with empathy. It seems like some people are using it to mean “able to integrate difficult experiences rather than just be flattened by them” and some people are using it to mean “born made of Teflon” and the two sides are arguing.

I also think I see a similar issue with the idea that there’s nothing to learn. All of the resources I looked at said that, yes, a firm support system is the most important thing. And as you say, that’s luck.

To the point that nobody in the thread was actually advocating for taking away representation from young people---I mean, fair. Maybe directly on the post wasn’t the best place for that conversation. Still, in another reblog I went into some of the reasons why the attitudes expressed by OP do in fact worry me.

To your main point--“You’re just a child; let me take care of that” does not actually fix the underlying problem that someone has to do the impossible. I would argue that no one should be fighting wars; that, ideally, no one should have responsibilities upon which the fate of their entire village/nation/world rests; and that being the protagonist in an action-adventure story would break just about anyone.

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heavyweightheart: Research has shown that...

…like your food? Really?@ biologyweeps

Hey so presummably the OP has me blocked since I can’t reblog the thing but I agree that an uncited study from the 70s is not a source. We’re not told an n, any way this this was analyzed, we’re only told hat ‘presumably they enjoyed their food more’ despite the fact that there are certain metabolic differences between Northern Europeans and South East Asians (LACTOSE TOLERANCE?!). Also ‘served as a mush’ may indeed influence the bioavailability of certain food items simply because they way things interact. You know how there’s vitamins that are fatsoluble and therefore ideally consumed with something fatty to let your body get at it or others that aren’t terribly stable to begin with where preparation method (say, extreme mechanical stress or heat) can vastly influence how much of said vitamin is even present in your dish to begin with.

Indeed, and it’s not just a historical argument in many parts of the world today.

Obv anything that adults did to pick on him is both inexcusably abusive and also stupid as fuck from that perspective - like, if you think a kid could level the village or even just be wave-arc levels of destructive if pissed off, then antagonising them is cruel and stupid. IDK I find the villagers treatment of naruto weird, I'm probably overthinking it.