Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by biomcgary on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:42PM (#34902387)

I'm a father of a non-verbal autistic son. We have chosen a non-traditional path for him to avoid bullying and he is generally doing quite well (and slowly becoming a bit more verbal). It helps that he has siblings that love him as he is.

Our kids have a mix of private schooling, tutoring, and homeschooling. They spend a lot of time outdoors and have very limited access to screens and no social media. We chose this path because the typical classroom has 25-30 barbarians and 1 civilized person, if you're lucky.

Most social media appears completely overrun by highly tribal barbarians.

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Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by siquick on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:44PM (#34904783)

> We chose this path because the typical classroom has 25-30 barbarians and 1 civilized person, if you're lucky.

If you ingrain this kind of superiority complex into your kid then they will have major problems when they enter the real world where they have to cooperate in a world of “barbarians”.

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Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by wombatpm on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @07:17PM (#34905054)

Have you spent time around high school and jr high students? Barbarians is putting it nicely.

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