I don’t mind the interactive story mode known as Odyssey that the ABC publishes some articles with, especially some science and climate/enviro pieces. But this one really threw me for a spin because the subject matter is so intense and the screen on my phone was constantly competing for my attention.
Maybe the ABC knows it’s audience better than I do. Maybe using the Odyssey format for this story will help it reach the people who need to read it.
I went looking for a reader mode option in the ABC News app (I set ABC links to default to opening with this on my phone) but couldn’t find one. I opened the article in a browser and hit reader mode and noticed it looked off and I think some html/CSS elements were stripped out or were missing.
I’m going to submit a request to ABC for a reader mode for all Odyssey format content. I found a couple of options to do so:
There is this App feedback for that the app links to from within the app.
There appears to also be mobilefeedback@abc.net.au
If anyone else thinks this is a good idea please submit a similar request.
guillem@aussie.zone 1 day ago
“She would say to me all the time, ‘I forget that I’m talking to a child’,”
I keep seeing this sentence, or a very similar one: “you are very/too mature for your age”. I wonder if most abusers kind of need to justify the abuse in the same way.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I work in residential therapy. Abusers always find some means to justify and normalize their abuse so the vulnerable youth just go along with it thinking they are the ones at fault. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking how many youth I work with that have to be deprogrammed from this kind of thought while simultaneously taught healthy boundaries for other youth and adults. Nothing claws at your soul more than reading about all the awful shit an abuser did or put a child through only for that child to be crying at night begging for a chance to talk with their abuser again.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I always assumed this was a common step in the grooming process, tell them they’re super mature for their age so that when they proceed to try to establish an adult relationship it feels to be less shockingly inappropriate to the victim
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Or are they immature themselves.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 day ago
This one, I can’t remember what study it was but something like half of all child sexual abusers were not attracted to children but instead had very stunted social skills (usually disabled or otherwise mentally ill) and struggle to connect with anyone with more advanced social needs than children. This results in them praying on the most vulnerable which is usually children.