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GG's avatar

You can thank the school system.

I also believe something has happened beyond schools to interfere with people's understanding. My nieces and nephews are homeschooled and they're bright kids. We were having a back and forth through text, being silly, and all of a sudden, they texted to say they didn't know if I was being serious or not. I was definitely not being serious; they weren't being serious. They were saying ridiculous things, I was saying ridiculous things. It was very strange. In context, I don't know how anyone could have thought the conversation was serious. They're readers. My son is not. He couldn't tell if I was being serious or not either, and he knows me pretty intimately.

I have two older boys that don't have any problem with that and never have, so I don't think it's that my nieces, nephews and son are just too young to comprehend. I just think they don't. Something made it happen. Maybe it was the lockdowns? Maybe it's TikTok brain?

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Heather's avatar

Fascinating….my younger 2 have a touch of autism (okay, one is much more than a touch) and both struggle with things like that a little

I sadly followed the vaccine schedule - I’m sure the drugs changed in the 9-13 years between my oldest who does not have these issues and the next 2….I blame myself and the damn vaccines for much of this

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GG's avatar

You can't beat yourself up about what you didn't know. How could you know? I found out when a vaccine killed my firstborn, otherwise all my children would have been vaccinated. It's not our fault that we've been lied to and abused.

I know the vaccines have caused all kinds of problems but the my nieces, nephews and sons haven't been vaccinated at all. So I can't blame their inability to comprehend on that. I don't know what is causing it, but it's very concerning to me.

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