Mitigation and Temptation

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[dalaminaubis]

[dramatic-dolphin]

i think some of you guys are insane 👍 it's actually possible for a 16 year old to be online friends with someone in their 20s. source: teenagers are actually people who can talk to other people about shared interests.

[dramatic-dolphin]

21 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 that 18 year old is literally your college classmate. you are the same age. You Are The Same Age

[dramatic-dolphin]

like, the moral panic about age gaps in dating is one thing but this reddit thread was literally about Being Online Friends. you can be online friends with a teenager. they are actually people you can talk to. i promise.

it's very easy to not be a creepy adult when talking to a minor. step one: don't act creepy. that's it. that's all you need to do.

[seananmcguire]

When I was sixteen, I and my boyfriend (eighteen) and his little brother (fourteen) all belonged to the same gaming group, which had been started by his father's friend Steve. We played twice a week with a bunch of people twice and even three times our age, and we learned that adults weren't aliens, they were people with their own feelings and fears and they weren't always right about everything.

Those years at Steve's table were incredibly important to my development as a person. And we had something in common: the game.

[fallenstarworkshop]

Here's the truth: when you grow up, as you go through the various developmental stages, there are things which are vital to happen for proper psychological and cognitive development. For example, when you're very young it is absolutely vital that you are exposed to language. A lot of language. Of varying levels of complexity and formality. That's vital for the healthy development of the language centers of the brain and for early socializing. It must happen. If it does not, you see severe dysfunction as they get older.

This is basic psychological and cognitive development theory. It's taught in pretty basic level Psych courses. This is known science.

Socializing with adults, of various ages, both related to you and not related to you, in various social situations from social equals to authority figure, is one of those vital landmarks. And it comes up over and over and over during development. As a young child you must interact with adults, who care for you, so you can understand care and safety. And it gets more deep and more complicated as you develop.

Preteens and teens must interact with people older than them, significantly older, in various ways, up to and including casual friendly socializing as equals, or they will not develop properly. This is absolutely vital. Your ability to function in the real world socially depends on it.

We are fucking destroying our young people with this bullshit.

Source: Majored in Psychology with a focus on childhood development in university. This is what I went to school for.

[the-real-seebs]

I had friends in their 30s and 50s when I was a teenager, and they saved me SO. MUCH. PAIN.

Do you not understand how amazing it is to be able to describe an experience you're having and have someone say "yes, I have had that experience several times, here are the things that might be about to hurt you, here is how to avoid them or mitigate that"?

It's pretty fucking amazing.

If you are avoiding older people, you are hurting yourself badly.

... I note also: If you are avoiding younger people, you are also hurting yourself.

Diverse friend groups are a very good idea. You should always have them. In general, it is a bad thing for any large group not to contain both young and old people. It will always, always, bite you in the ass.

[bizarrolord-deactivated20241123]

As someone whose only friends as a kid were adults, whether teachers or aides, fuck this train of thought.

[dalaminaubis]

When I was a kid I'd find ways to hang out with the adults because kids my age were assholes. I was the weird one who wanted to talk about how leafcutter ants harvest fungus and crickets lay their eggs in sandy soil. I also acted like some sort of little 1800's dandy, kissing ladies on the back of the hand and giving compliments.

[the-fridge-is-on-fire]

i love being a perverted faggot and a furry

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[pocketss]

goodbye boy

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[dalaminaubis]

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[inkskinned]

i love lesbians. i went to get drinks with a masc who had sent me pictures of her hanging drywall. she confirmed over text that she was sending these to torture me. in person, she was so nervous her hands were trembling. she had to repeat her order twice because she was so quiet. she shakily asked for a hug at the end of the night, the way oliver twist asks for porridge. and then i got home and she sent me a picture of her just in a toolbelt, accompanied by one of the smuttiest text messages i've ever read. meanwhile when i called her to schedule the next date, she had to stop and say, "i'm so sorry i'm so nervous i'm out of breath." just. the whiplash of it all. godbless you every lesbian

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[fallenfoxie]

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[nigelgraz]

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[soulren]

The second I get a halberd in my hands it’s over for one specific individual. Haven’t decided who yet, but I figure I’ll know once I have the halberd.

[dalaminaubis]