Yep. Gone round & round with co-workers over this. When your daughter says she has a classmate who says she identifies as a cat it doesn’t mean there is official policy to recognize children as cats. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Carl Sagan, I think.
That’s why these tech guys are so excited about AI. They can’t have original dreams! They need HAL9000 to dream for them.
I mean Elon Musk’s entire existence is based on Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” - the topper being Musk is too dim to realize Heinlein wrote a satire, not a recipe!
This one girl named Tish was such a horse girl she would pretend to be a horse. In 5th grade. IDK, we just let Tish be Tish. Apologies to Tish, who surely grew out of it, for remaining fixed as such in my memory.
The best way to deal with a kid who’s playing is to indulge them, to a reasonable degree. If they say they’re a cat you say “ok then, let’s have rice mice for dinner” and sneak some veggies in by making the tails carrot slivers.
I told everyone to call me Crystal because I didn’t like my name in 2nd grade. My grandpa was the only one who would. It lasted a full two weeks and the small act of acceptance still sticks with me today. It’s almost as if you let people enjoy life and be who they want they grow up feeling loved.
My stepdaughter meowed and dressed like a cat when she was 5 or 6. She called me Kitty Mama instead of step mom. It was adorable and brought us closer together. Not once did I wonder if she shit in a litter box!
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I mean Elon Musk’s entire existence is based on Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” - the topper being Musk is too dim to realize Heinlein wrote a satire, not a recipe!
Its why they also despise Not Like Us, that song came from the soul of a real and honest hater.
Meanwhile, playing pretend is a crucial developmental stage and those poor kids are gonna get deeply fucked up about being punished for meowing.
the kid will think THEY are wrong and will begin to hate themselves
Some kids are more resistant to indoctrination into self-hate than others.