One thing that’s disturbing in the book for 13-year-olds is the casual medicalization of normal human emotions. The main character’s mom is in a bad marriage. Whenever she has a fight with the husband, she declares she’s depressed and needs to get medicated.
“How come she keeps saying it’s a chemical imbalance but she only gets it when she and dad fight?” asks the smart teenager.
When the girl has boy trouble and starts moping in her room, the mother can’t be bothered to find out what’s going on or read a single article about teenage moodiness. She drags the girl to her own psychiatrist and gets her medicated to the gills.
The psychiatrist explains that it’s not normal for people to feel sad and they should take medicine for it. This is all described very realistically, and it’s heart-breaking.
Moping in your room because the boy you like doesn’t like you back is practically in the encyclopedia definition of what a teenage girl is. I spent many delightfully tragic hours in my room at 14, recording on my cassette player endless sad screeds addressed to a boy at school who had no idea I existed. I’m very thankful nobody back then suspected this was a disease and tried to medicate me for it.
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Totally true. Children (and adults) no longer have to go through the human emotional/mental milestones, therefore they no longer mature and develop. It’s all medication(which can lead to addiction) and ESAs which lead to permanent infantilism.
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