Stars&:Blobhaj_Heart_Trans: :Green:@astronema@social.translunar.academy
@futurebird@sauropods.win @dalias@hachyderm.io @DavyJones@c.im children should have the same access to the internet as anyone. the only way i was able to talk to anyone my age outside of being at school (which was an all boys school where i received more abuse as closeted trans kid) was the internet
my parents frequently took my access away. i remember losing friends because of it, and dealing with total social isolation.
i remember as a kid opening up my school laptop internet history and finding a bunch of “big dicked shemale” porn my abuser had been looking at. i was 12 at the time?
unrestricted access to the internet may sound dangerous to children, and i agree with very young children, but i think at some point they have the right to put themselves in danger if they understand the risks
my mother was terrified of me being abused by internet strangers so i was scared to talk to even ppl my own age of i didn’t know them in person
hell i wasn’t allowed to even go to other peoples houses most of the time because of it
yet all it did was make me more isolated and vulnerable to my abuser, and i do not think i was a unique case
myrmepropagandist@futurebird@sauropods.win
@astronema@social.translunar.academy @DavyJones@c.im @dalias@hachyderm.io
IDK if unlimited internet can fix terrible parents or an environment that is intolerant or unsupportive of who a child is.
There are instances where it has helped ... on the flip side I've seen kids sucked in by these communities that form around minor celebrity influencers. Sometimes the influencers themselves are predatory, sometimes creeps just lurk in such places looking for lonely disconnected young people.
