Tumblr really needs to find a middle ground between “any contact between an adult and a non-blood-related youth is inherently predatory” and “being creepy towards children and teens is fine actually” or we are gonna end up w an entire generation of ppl w brain rot.
I was a child and a teen once. I was also a nanny for a number of years to older children. Children and teens can have perfectly normal interactions with grown folks that aren’t either
A. Predatory OR
B. Incredibly infantilizing to the point of insulting an older child or teen’s intelligence and being disrespectful of their rights
Because I have a life offline and a job where most of my co-workers are teens, I can assure you, based on observational evidence, that teens do not like to be treated like they are fragile babies but without a fucking brain and are, in fact, a little put off by adults who treat them as such.
I would also like you to stop and consider that maybe telling a child or teen in a vulnerable situation where they are, for example, being abused by a trusted adult (i.e. a parent) that ALL adults are exactly like their abusers and cannot be trusted because no relationship with an adult is healthy IS ACTUALLY REALLY FUCKING DAMAGING
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