Yes, pathologise kids even more. Treat them as sick right away, make them feel it. It will totally not make them conform to that expectation, especially as it's getting a reward for following the expectations.
I'm not saying some people, therefore kids aren't higher anxiety. I know I am, for example. But to decide a kid is ill so young WILL limit them. They will grow up with this sense of being ill and disabled.
They will grow up with this sense of being ill and disabled.
It's just the apocryphal story about the elephant and the rope on a society-wide scale. Shackle them early, and often, and sturdily, and even in adulthood when they might be free, they won't know how to be free, or how to try to free themselves.
They're forging the chains of modern slavery to the all-powerful State, one link at a time.
Or you have the reverse of that - how Tyr tricked the previously-peaceful-but-just-too-large Fenris. Give them ropes they can easily break/voluntarily shed, first. Then give them the unbreakable dwarf-forged chain.
Yes, pathologise kids even more. Treat them as sick right away, make them feel it. It will totally not make them conform to that expectation, especially as it's getting a reward for following the expectations.
I'm not saying some people, therefore kids aren't higher anxiety. I know I am, for example. But to decide a kid is ill so young WILL limit them. They will grow up with this sense of being ill and disabled.
It's just the apocryphal story about the elephant and the rope on a society-wide scale. Shackle them early, and often, and sturdily, and even in adulthood when they might be free, they won't know how to be free, or how to try to free themselves.
They're forging the chains of modern slavery to the all-powerful State, one link at a time.
Or you have the reverse of that - how Tyr tricked the previously-peaceful-but-just-too-large Fenris. Give them ropes they can easily break/voluntarily shed, first. Then give them the unbreakable dwarf-forged chain.