And it really irks me a lot.
Update: Man, I have gotten tons of great responses here and a lot of activity. The comments section turned out way better than Reddit. Thank you all! <3
Give me a break man. I was sick for most of my childhood. You know what I did? I told my parents when I was getting sick. I guess that must be a shock to the morons in this thread trying to pretend that kids are utter dumbasses so they don’t have to criticize a story.
Who said kids are dumbasses? Project much?
My experience, as a kid, was that asking adults about things, or trying to tell them anything, was pointless. They were a bunch of thickheaded idiots. This was my experience with practically every teacher too, through college (which was 30+ years ago for me).
We’re all flawed, imperfect. Effective ommunication is hard.
Can’t say it any better than Marcus Aurelius:
"The substance of [life] is ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption.
[…] To be brief, as a stream, so are all things belonging to the body…
Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage."
His point is that everyone contends with the apparatus of a quite imperfect, continually breaking down physical being, on top of anything going on in our heads, making everything that much more difficult.
Kids don’t grok this yet, so can’t comprehend what being old like Dumbledore (or hell, even 45) is like.
