LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to Autism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDo any of you have this urge? piefed.cdn.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square151fedilinkarrow-up1575arrow-down129
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minus-squarelugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 day ago As a child I used to annoy the hell out of my mother, by asking why This is true for literally every kid. All kids are born scientists but many lose interest or get frustrated over time
minus-squareAngry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoWhen I was a kid and bugged my mom with ‘why’, she’d hand me a book about it and it would shut me up for hours And yet I’m told that millenial parents doing the same with their kids and youtube is fine and just like how my mother would hand me a book And we’re seeing the results come through highschool rn
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 hours agoI’m not sure if I understand it. Are you framing it as a bad thing that your mother got you a book about stuff you were interested in?
minus-squareAngry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 hours agoNo I am saying that youtube is a poor substitute for reading
This is true for literally every kid. All kids are born scientists but many lose interest or get frustrated over time
When I was a kid and bugged my mom with ‘why’, she’d hand me a book about it and it would shut me up for hours
And yet I’m told that millenial parents doing the same with their kids and youtube is fine and just like how my mother would hand me a book
And we’re seeing the results come through highschool rn
I’m not sure if I understand it. Are you framing it as a bad thing that your mother got you a book about stuff you were interested in?
No I am saying that youtube is a poor substitute for reading