Thorough and thoughtful! I like this very much: "...strategic naivete on your part...". I don't get to every SW Youtube or post (so much content - so little time) but when I do I usually learn something important. Sorry to learn you have haters -- mayy it means you must be doing something right but it's go to be irksome.
I have a question. If we’re trying to encourage the parts of our kids that are good, eg. work ethic through a part time job, or volunteering at a local shelter etc, but they insist on doing this in their trans identity, do we allow that? Are we building up that trans identity or are we building up the parts of them that will eventually become stronger and bigger than the trans identity? Seems like a delicate balance.
I’m the parent of a ROGD kid and everything you have written resonates 100% with me. I think part of the problem for these kids is lacking a sense of identity (related to many of them being autistic.) Declaring themselves ‘trans’ gives them an immediate, ready-made identity allowing them to bypass the work of realising their own, unique identity and explaining their feeling of not fitting in. Of course, other teenagers choose other identities like being goth, emo etc but these don’t require surgery or medicalising yourself for life which is why the trans identity is dangerous. Plus the long term psychological effects of living a lie are yet to be seen in the ROGD population.
Thorough and thoughtful! I like this very much: "...strategic naivete on your part...". I don't get to every SW Youtube or post (so much content - so little time) but when I do I usually learn something important. Sorry to learn you have haters -- mayy it means you must be doing something right but it's go to be irksome.
I have a question. If we’re trying to encourage the parts of our kids that are good, eg. work ethic through a part time job, or volunteering at a local shelter etc, but they insist on doing this in their trans identity, do we allow that? Are we building up that trans identity or are we building up the parts of them that will eventually become stronger and bigger than the trans identity? Seems like a delicate balance.
I’m the parent of a ROGD kid and everything you have written resonates 100% with me. I think part of the problem for these kids is lacking a sense of identity (related to many of them being autistic.) Declaring themselves ‘trans’ gives them an immediate, ready-made identity allowing them to bypass the work of realising their own, unique identity and explaining their feeling of not fitting in. Of course, other teenagers choose other identities like being goth, emo etc but these don’t require surgery or medicalising yourself for life which is why the trans identity is dangerous. Plus the long term psychological effects of living a lie are yet to be seen in the ROGD population.