I think people forget just how weird kids start out, before society breaks their spirit

none of us get the childhood that our true inner selves want. not even close, most of the time

a large rectangular multicolor spectrum, captioned: "Ways that children WANT to express themselves." One large circled area on the left side is labeled "actually dangerous," and another on the right side is labeled "unintentionally offensive." All the rest is labeled "technically harmless but socially unacceptable in almost all settings due to being weird as fuck"... except for one very tiny circle, which is split between "fully socially accepted for boys" and "fully socially accepted for girls."ALT