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PBS/Frontline: New Report - Adam Lanza “Did Not Just ‘Snap’”.

The authors describe a symbiotic relationship between mother and son, with Nancy going to excessive lengths to protect him from stress, which had the damaging effect of isolating him from the outside world. She treated him as a close confidant, but ‘that may have been well beyond his relatively immature emotional capacities.’” Alas I know of more than one tragedy of this kind. I’ll agree with the psychologists who say, “Suffer the little children to grow at their own pace.

They need goals, don’t get me wrong. But we do them a disservice to ‘adultize’ them too soon. One can begin to accept them as ‘another adult’ and misperceive the actual abilities of the child, allowing them to get into situations where older and wiser heads are required to make safe choices.

11/21/14 • 08:50 PM • ChildhoodHealthHistoryPsychology • (2) Comments

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I read this and think of my own Autistic son, and in fact, my own adolescence. No insight, only rumination…

Posted by Hal B Rager on 11/23/14 at 02:01 AM

If I were raised in modern culture, I doubt I would have survived this long. I can see various points in my life where I could have gone postal, yet the distance between upset and action was a marathon’s distance.

Modern social isolation, easy access to firearms and the frenetic urging of video games seems to shorten that distance.

Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 11/23/14 at 03:31 PM

 

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