The grandson could have been one of them. When he arrived to live with us, he spouted all kinds of nonsense that he “heard online”, snuck out of his room at 4am to game and talk to people in inappropriate places on my computer. Silly boy had forgotten I was a computer tech because he had been conditioned by step-family and forums that older women were unimportant, so we had The Talk, and after about a year, he was back to being a decent human being.
Teenagers with mental health issues are really vulnerable to conditioning, especially since Common Core has replaced teaching kids how to learn with teaching kids how to take tests. If the kids are lucky, their post-grad education will get them back on board with critical thinking skills.
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