#35 years

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happy 35th birthday to the sandman!

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[Insert group here] life expectancy is 35 years is a psyop

The title.

There are plenty of fairly common factoids circulating around, around usually some pretty heavily marginalized groups, that due to abuse, discrimination, poverty, etc. their average life expectancy is 35 years old. Commonly cited groups for that: black trans women, autistic people, etc.

Now, of course it's known that experiencing long-term health problems and trauma does reduce a person's life expectancy.

But I want to more specifically talk about the number being mentioned here - 35 years old.

And this is not a coincidence.

35 is the age that in the Western culture and in much of the rest of the world too is considered a "full adult" - the minimum age to become the President of the United States (and in many other countries too), minimum age to be an astronaut, etc.

Therefore, when people are parroting "X group has a life expectancy of 35 years" what they're really saying is the psyop-induced viewpoint that "X group will never be real functioning adults".

The 35 years statistic is also never properly cited with any kind of variation or margin of error. And that is a red flag too - the fact that only the number 35 is ever being repeated without variatio, means that it’s less a rigorously derived statistic and more a symbolic or rhetorical device, or as I put it, a psyop.

In genuine epidemiological data or any data of any kind, even sampled from people with tragic wooby life stories, you would expect some variation: confidence intervals, different averages by region, year, or subgroup. The persistent repetition of exactly 35 with no deviation, no updates, no range signals a narrative construction rather than a statistically valid or a reliable finding.

Let's say that a life expectancy of X group was indeed 35 on average. Then what is the margin of error? For sure, this would require a lot of members of the group dying in their 20s, and others living to a much older age.

And if a community does indeed have a tragically short life expectancy, that must be acknowledged. However, reciting the same number over and over to the point where it smells like a psyop, is the opposite of support.

The only thing saying "X demographic has a 35 year life expectancy" serves is to perpetuate bigotry that these individuals will never be real adults with real political power.

This figure does not actually serve to better lives of the affected demographic and only carries a political subtext: these people cannot, and will not, reach full adulthood or societal power. It’s a symbolic silencing masked as a statistic.

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Congratulations to Mark Sheppard on 35 years of sobriety.