[ SECRET POST #5618 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5618 ⌋

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Comments

[meadowphoenix]

I'm going to honest, Harriet reads as neurodivergent in the first book to me, and so that's colored how I think about her. At best I think it's actually kinda shitty to say dysfunctional coping is psychopathy. Coping, for any human, but especially kids, is actually often maladaptive but that doesn't mean we should pathologize onto personality disorders.

But critically, Harriet is written like a Precocious Child, and I actually like Harriet the Spy because rarely do you have a book say maybe certain demonstrations of that precociousness that in other media is praised is actually just neglect.

That said, it's no Book of Henry, so small blessings.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, even if she wasn't neurodivergent, she was still a kid who was going through something that was traumatic to her. Did she handle it in the best way? No. Was she also eleven years old? Yes, and eleven-year-olds have never been known as stellar decision-makers under the best circumstances. She acted out, it had consequences, and she learned from them and became a better person.

That was kind of the entire plot of the book.

[meadowphoenix]

I think people are really underestimating how much kids have to learn what boundaries are, especially when legit no adult is placing any on them (and also the difference between honesty and callousness).

[(Anonymous)]

I think so too, honestly. I'm also surprised by how many people apparently have zero memories of being children, because I look back at some of the things I did as a kid now that I'm an adult with a developed sense of empathy and boundaries and go "Wow, that was kind of shitty of me." I definitely did things that were not okay that I didn't recognize were not okay at the time because... I was a kid.

[meadowphoenix]

And being nosy/callous are probably the hardest to learn because lbr, a lot of adults are very nosy to children and are more private in callous where kids can hear than in public. But I totally agree, this is just about learning to live with other people.