Absorption in the digital realm leaves kids feeling detached from their physical bodies. Virtual identities, invented through online play-acting and unwieldy pronouns, fuse with actual identities.
Joe Allen, Dark Æon
When very young people spend a lot of time interacting with a screen, they don’t grow into a normal awareness of their physicality. Their bodies are not completely real to them because they aren’t truly felt. The result is a subconscious but overpowering need to turn the body into a problem, endow it with festering wounds in order to be able to feel it. These wounds can be physical or mental but they are always invented and their purpose is finally to feel something.
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