when labels hurt
plaidpanties666
I'm pulling this out of the thread on sleep because its a different topic. Someone wrote:
It probably wasn't the parent's intention to write something dehumanizing, but that's the danger of seeing a person through the lens of a label - it becomes appallingly easy to frame everything about that person in terms of the label. Sometimes even "child" can be too much of a label, when it gets in the way of seeing human reactions and motivations.
---Meredith
>My son who is Autistic used to like to be up late in the middleMy first reaction was "why isn't he just your son?" Is the autism somehow relevant to the topic? Lots of kids go through phases of being awake late at night - why isn't this child simply a child?
> of the night
It probably wasn't the parent's intention to write something dehumanizing, but that's the danger of seeing a person through the lens of a label - it becomes appallingly easy to frame everything about that person in terms of the label. Sometimes even "child" can be too much of a label, when it gets in the way of seeing human reactions and motivations.
---Meredith