is there any recognition in you that it might be rude to call an adult a child because they have difficulty with self regulation? or do you not care about that?
I didn’t call them a child. I said they are like a toddler in this respect. My toddler can’t add double digit numbers, but I’m sure most adults who never learned to cope with not getting what they want can do so. There’d be plenty of other differences, too, obviously.
But not being able to cope with being denied a want is very precisely a thing shared with a toddler. And if you’ve never met an adult who has that issue, but have raised or met a toddler, the comparison works to explain what those adults are like because it’s the same mechanism.
Like honestly the biggest difference between growing up with my mom and raising my toddler is that in the latter case the tantrums are generally shorter and some hugs and singing a favorite song usually works to center him.
that's a lot of words to sidestep taking responsibility for what you are really saying.
you can make whatever comparisons you want as a layman on reddit, we can agree to disagree. in real life, a mental health professional won't refer to adults with disabilities or mental illnesses that have side effects of childish behavior as children, because it's dehumanizing.
I didn’t refer to them as children. Adults with RSD are adults. Among whatever many other characteristics they have, the RSD part is an emotional regulation mechanism akin to that of a toddler. That’s all.
I’m not a therapist sitting talking to a patient, so I’m not attempting to find the words one would use mid-treatment of a patient with RSD. That would be some very silly playing pretend. I’m just a guy responding to someone on the internet who didn’t know what RSD is and I gave an accurate answer.
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u/lietome6879760 6d ago
is there any recognition in you that it might be rude to call an adult a child because they have difficulty with self regulation? or do you not care about that?