I fully agree that this phenomenon is selfish and attention-seeking, but I think you're kidding yourself if you think this is because parents became bad in the past 50 years. People faked illnesses 50 years ago just as they do today. I wouldn't even be surprised if they did it in the same proportions of the population as in the past. The…
I fully agree that this phenomenon is selfish and attention-seeking, but I think you're kidding yourself if you think this is because parents became bad in the past 50 years. People faked illnesses 50 years ago just as they do today. I wouldn't even be surprised if they did it in the same proportions of the population as in the past. The difference is that we hear about things now that we didn't used to, and same proportion + bigger population = bigger numbers. Every dumbass faking DID today can find each other online and form a community that attracts others; that was not possible 50 years ago. You assume there were fewer tantruming kids when you were a kid because when you were a kid, you only saw other kids in your immediate neighborhood and city, and now you get to see TikToks of tantrumming kids from all over that make it easy to believe the phenomenon is more common than ever, when it's just in front of your eyeballs more than ever.
Kids are dumb and selfish. Plenty of them grow into dumb and selfish adults. I haven't seen any compelling evidence that this phenomenon has changed or grown in basically any way in the entirety of human history, I suppose outside of truly brutal places where "nobody" steps out of line (because "stepping out of line" means death or severe punishment - I would not rather live in such a world than in this one)
I fully agree that this phenomenon is selfish and attention-seeking, but I think you're kidding yourself if you think this is because parents became bad in the past 50 years. People faked illnesses 50 years ago just as they do today. I wouldn't even be surprised if they did it in the same proportions of the population as in the past. The difference is that we hear about things now that we didn't used to, and same proportion + bigger population = bigger numbers. Every dumbass faking DID today can find each other online and form a community that attracts others; that was not possible 50 years ago. You assume there were fewer tantruming kids when you were a kid because when you were a kid, you only saw other kids in your immediate neighborhood and city, and now you get to see TikToks of tantrumming kids from all over that make it easy to believe the phenomenon is more common than ever, when it's just in front of your eyeballs more than ever.
Kids are dumb and selfish. Plenty of them grow into dumb and selfish adults. I haven't seen any compelling evidence that this phenomenon has changed or grown in basically any way in the entirety of human history, I suppose outside of truly brutal places where "nobody" steps out of line (because "stepping out of line" means death or severe punishment - I would not rather live in such a world than in this one)