Hi there, Mercury forwarded this essay to us! He says you're cool and I'm reading this and so far I agree very much
First off, hell yeah, essay on system kids! An etiquette guide for talking to kids is sorely needed in general, honestly, with what you've said about how kids are treated by society, but yeah - especially when it comes to systems! Age can be weird when you all live in one body together!
AGREED on the baseline "kids are people," which is shockingly common for a lot of adults to forget! It really helps with a lot of conversation, just treating kids with the same respect and courtesy as you would anyone else. I haven't had a lot of experience talking to external kids, but I'm enough into young adulthood that I still remember that it really sucked to be talked over and treated like I was dumb just because I was eight!
Wow this is a really helpful guide - and I'm going to check out that suicide prevention zine! You've boiled down a lot of good ways to talk to kids in general and how to help a kid in crisis, this is good stuff! We don't have any kids in our own system, but we do have an anxious very-young adult by way of Robot Who Was Made As An Adult, and a lot of this stuff is what we do to help them out! Being a steady presence who's there to gently talk and not push is really really helpful, cannot recommend that enough.
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Date: 2025-06-17 02:17 am (UTC)Hi there, Mercury forwarded this essay to us! He says you're cool and I'm reading this and so far I agree very much
First off, hell yeah, essay on system kids! An etiquette guide for talking to kids is sorely needed in general, honestly, with what you've said about how kids are treated by society, but yeah - especially when it comes to systems! Age can be weird when you all live in one body together!
AGREED on the baseline "kids are people," which is shockingly common for a lot of adults to forget! It really helps with a lot of conversation, just treating kids with the same respect and courtesy as you would anyone else. I haven't had a lot of experience talking to external kids, but I'm enough into young adulthood that I still remember that it really sucked to be talked over and treated like I was dumb just because I was eight!
Wow this is a really helpful guide - and I'm going to check out that suicide prevention zine! You've boiled down a lot of good ways to talk to kids in general and how to help a kid in crisis, this is good stuff! We don't have any kids in our own system, but we do have an anxious very-young adult by way of Robot Who Was Made As An Adult, and a lot of this stuff is what we do to help them out! Being a steady presence who's there to gently talk and not push is really really helpful, cannot recommend that enough.
Thanks for writing and sharing, it's very cool!
--Max (he/they)