Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.
There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.
Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:
No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.
My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.
#i firmly believe that the reason why concussions and brain damage in general#are not taken nearly as seriously as they should be#is because of football#if we take concussions and brain trauma seriously then we have to acknowledge the risks that children are undertaking at even#high school level football#but we can't do that#because the kids need to play football in high school so they can play football in college so they can join the NFL#This time I'm really gonna queue it.
I recently watched this video by hydn called “The Great Concussion Denial” and holy fucking shit. Made me sick to my stomach. The tldr is that it’s all the NFL pushing football on kids but that’s really diluting the story
highly recommend that anyone who's had a concussion, knows they have post-concussion syndrome, or just wants to learn more about concussions check out Concussion Alliance! they're a non-profit that focuses on research and education about concussions, including resources for people with concussions/PCS, resources for healthcare providers, and connecting researchers and patients for studies. they do a lot of really great work, and have a strong focus on making information as accessible as possible so that their resources are, y'know, still useful for folks with cognitive or vision impacts from concussions/PCS. the founder themself started it after struggling with PCS and not being able to find adequate care, so it's very much a "by disabled people, for disabled people" sorta organization.
