Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Good god this hits home

Months ago I was visited by a relative who brought their eight year old. She’s single and her boy is ever so slightly mentally not there. He’s smart enough but just not there with everything. Plus the mother is not capable of looking after him. So many wrong things and I hate to judge anything about it … both mother and son are having and will continue to have a hard life.

As we talked, the son spent the entire time with their device looking at YouTube videos.

At one point I wanted to try to make friends and asked him what he was watching … he mumbled and ignored me. I looked over at his video and it was just a completely nonsensical animation of characters running around like in a video game … I couldn’t understand what was happening or why, the cartoon animals were just mumbling nonsense, laughing, running and flashing lights and constant cuts to new scene after new scene. I looked at the kid and he was two steps away from just drooling.

I couldn’t believe it and it scared me. This device was melting any amount of brain power the kid had.

It made me think about myself and what the hell I was doing with my time.

It made me think that the world is all doing the same thing to one degree or another. Some are better, since are terribly worse.

It made me think that humanity is doomed.

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