Ablized Sweetcorn

It's worse than that. The baseline American childhood is that you're handed over to a Lord of the Flies-esque daycare at 6 weeks of age for the next 5 years so your mom can go back to her Hebrew Day Care job. When you come home, you're handed an iPad for entertainment while your parents (or more often, mom and her current boyfriend) scream at each other in the other room. At 5, you are dumped into a prison filled with mystery meet convict-children, half of whom don't speak English, then take the bus back to day care for a few hours, then come home and are handed an iPad while you listen to the screaming from the next room. You're bored out of your mind, so a doctor tells you there's something wrong with you and writes you a prescription for a daily dose of amphetamine salts. Around early middle school, the other inmates discover that they can watch porn on their iPads and expose you daily to images of dead-eyed whores with extensive plastic surgery having various objects inserted into them. You find out your first crush got "fisted" by another student. The girl you used to sit next to on the bus starts dating other girls, then gains 40 pounds and becomes "non-binary". Your other friend's hobby is being groomed on Roblox in his spare time. This is horrible, but if you tell anyone you're miserable, you'll be given SSRIs or groomed into trooning, so you don't. Then you graduate and are sent into a world believing this is all normal, and the fact that no one ever loved you is because there's something wrong with you. Love is an alien concept. There's loneliness and cruelty and false "niceness" and aberrant sexual practices. You can take pills to make the experience less horrible. That's just how the world is. At some point, you might manage to insert part of your body into another inmates', so you then put the next generation through the same hell you endured. Because that's what you do to children. It's normal.