Going to break my silence on this on this main actually
So, I've been seeing a rise in people saying the same things against system littles being able to do XYZ, so as someone who's (technically) the littles y'all are tryna protect, here's a PSA
Syskids and littles are not children.
Please stop assuming that every single little in the world has a child-like maturity and thus should always be treated as a literal child. Look, even MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS acknowledge that littles should not be treated one-to-one as children.
First of all, you all should know that maturity and age are concepts that don't always loosely apply to systems. A lot of us literally don't even have an age and can't be neatly categorised into an age maturity group. Some of us who can be are often in maturity age ranges where typical age treatment drastically changes as you go through the range (eg one of us has an estimated age range of anywhere between 16 and 20. and no we can't tell what side of the spectrum they are). So we cannot simply rely on "maturity" to decide whether we can consent to anything or not.
But even if that wasn't an issue, I'd still have to deal with idiots who think "little" is a box that anyone deemed childish can be thrown into and not an optional label, like other system roles, that doesn't necessarily have to permanently define you.
Littles will not look the same. Some littles are not always littles. Some littles are technically adults. Some littles ARE always littles but can display maturity closer to adults. You can't just blanket treat all of them the exact same.
I myself am a really special kind of "little", in which childishness, adulthood and the supernatural combine to make a being that is effectively ageless but takes on the form of a child out of pure choice. My littlehood IS connected to trauma, yes, but it has also been reclaimed as a performance. There are times that I want to be treated as a child, sure, but people's idea of a "child" always fucking conflict with how I actually want to be treated because God forbid someone's childishness be sexual in nature, right?
Because of this, and how people treat littles in general, trying to find someone who affirms my littleness without trying to reduce my autonomy or treat me as an actual literal child who DOESN'T get called a groomer for doing what I WANT them to do is so fucking hard.
There's a reason I'm a self-identified kodo.
Also, if you decide to ignore this post because of my transIDs or contact stances or whatever, then congratulations! The antis have brainwashed you, because it is precisely because of how people treat littles that I've been pushed into the radqueer community in the first place. I'm sure the rest of system has a lot to say about that.
