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In modern degenerate society a number of worrying trends have emerged. One of these trends is the rise of the adult child. Among people under the age of 35 roughly half still live with their parents. Toy consumption by adults has gone through the roof, romantic relationships through the floor, and abilities such as how to cook for oneself and other basic self-care tasks have declined significantly. But who is the culprit behind this mess? Well I believe it is in large part due to a trend of adultification of children that I believe will have effected many of the readers here (including myself). This phrase is used by the psychologist Sam Vaknin (a personal favourite of mine) to describe the practice of putting children in developmentally inappropriate roles. The most common form of this occurs in the form of what is known as emotional incest/covert incest in which an adult looks to their child for emotional support during hard times. This is an example of a developmentally inappropriate role. That of having to emotionally support your parents when the person is emotionally under developed. This is but one example of this. There are others including parentification when an absent caregiver puts the role of taking care of a child on to another child. There is a lot of this in modern society. I would argue that the entire education system is predicated on doing this. For example purely theoretical instruction based education doesn't work for children as kids generally learn with an adult directly present. For example if a kid wants to learn how to climb a tree they will generally only do it if an adult is watching. This is so the kid has a safety net should something go wrong. There is a lot of this around.
The effects of this form of abuse are massive and can range from boundary issues to developmental problems. This has lead me to believe that a huge part of the issues we see today stem from this form of abuse on a mass scale. For example romantic relations have declined in large part due to boundary problems and lack of ability to negotiate. This ties into the education system's tendency to not assist feuding kids solve their issues but rather to instead make the problem go away for the benefit of the staff. Typically by imposing separation. This I believe is an example of prioritising the needs of the adults over the children. This is in large part what has happened over the past 30 years. Placing children into adult social roles when they're not prepared for it. The role of taking care of the adults and subordinating their own needs for it. This is in effect depriving children of a real childhood in favour of one spent meeting the needs of the adults around them. People like to pretend that people born from the 90s onwards had great childhoods filled with cool franchises but completely ignore the more important things.
But what is the effect of this going to be? Well I think we're already seeing it in things like adults buying toys. But long term I think we can expect a huge rise in things like adult babies and possibly a legal category of trans aged people. If more and more adults are developmentally stuck as half children, half adults then surely as time goes by these people will realise the damage done and start demanding that they get the development they never got. Of course there are numerous problems with doing this but either way I think we can soon expect adults applying to primary schools in the name of equality. We'll also see the normalisation of this abuse with something along the lines of "people mature at different ages".
I can expand further but I feel this introduction would go on too long. Feel free to ask for further clarification.
The effects of this form of abuse are massive and can range from boundary issues to developmental problems. This has lead me to believe that a huge part of the issues we see today stem from this form of abuse on a mass scale. For example romantic relations have declined in large part due to boundary problems and lack of ability to negotiate. This ties into the education system's tendency to not assist feuding kids solve their issues but rather to instead make the problem go away for the benefit of the staff. Typically by imposing separation. This I believe is an example of prioritising the needs of the adults over the children. This is in large part what has happened over the past 30 years. Placing children into adult social roles when they're not prepared for it. The role of taking care of the adults and subordinating their own needs for it. This is in effect depriving children of a real childhood in favour of one spent meeting the needs of the adults around them. People like to pretend that people born from the 90s onwards had great childhoods filled with cool franchises but completely ignore the more important things.
But what is the effect of this going to be? Well I think we're already seeing it in things like adults buying toys. But long term I think we can expect a huge rise in things like adult babies and possibly a legal category of trans aged people. If more and more adults are developmentally stuck as half children, half adults then surely as time goes by these people will realise the damage done and start demanding that they get the development they never got. Of course there are numerous problems with doing this but either way I think we can soon expect adults applying to primary schools in the name of equality. We'll also see the normalisation of this abuse with something along the lines of "people mature at different ages".
I can expand further but I feel this introduction would go on too long. Feel free to ask for further clarification.