Interact with Minors - Video Version!
With live narration from me + image descriptions.
Hi everyone, I recorded myself reading my latest piece Interact with Minors aloud (and describing the images in the piece) — I hope you enjoy, and let me know if you’d like to see more like this in the future.
I loved the narration - thanks for that! Often, as I can't focus on reading anything anymore, and even less in English, I use the automatic voice reading your articles, but it's way more fluid and nicer with an actual human reading it instead! 🙏🏼
I'm totally with you on the fact that if a child or a teenager is asking questions about something, it means they are "old enough" to get the answer. Of course, an answer adapted to their level of comprehension. But I remember being afraid of getting kidnapped as a kid, but only being explained that "stranger = danger" without any possibility of pushing the discussion further. So I was just left alone with all my questions and fears and all, and it would definitely have been easier if someone would have taken the time to actually talk through my fears with me and answer my questions about what was making a person switch from "stranger" to "known adult", as for example any new teacher at school was first a stranger, but those strangers I was expected to trust, but not the one just on the other side of the schoolyard fences.
I don't have kids, and don't plan to. But I've worked with kids, and even more teenagers, for years, as a teacher, but also in a privileged position as the counselor at the local youth center - so not the parent, not the teacher, only the person they were coming to see to play pool and video games and do sports and arts and whatever for fun, without any obligation. The amount of amazing conversations I had with them all, I learned a lot about life, just as much as they did, probably. About their lives, their realities, their dreams, their believes. It made me the person I am today. And I hate when people just see minors as unimportant, unable to really think or observe or have an opinion worth to be listened to. I've always, and always will, be treating minors as human beings, and adapt my way of taking to their cognitive abilities of course, just like I won't use the same level of language if I'm talking to university professors having dedicated their life to a subject or factory workers who never heard about that specific topic, but not deciding them to be unworthy of my time or unable to contribute to a conversation because of their age.
I just want to say how self-telling it is to write, "Minors will be deleted from reality itself by my hand." Its giving Dawkins and trans people.