Your history doesn't fit their perception of reality, the setting of their grand story, so they dismiss it as inconsequential. Everything is about them—how they appear, how things affect them, how things relate to what they know. You look like a child, therefore you have to fit their understanding of what it means to *be* a child. Human children believe themselves more capable than they are, they're loud, they're bratty and weak, their thoughts and opinions are based in fantasy and can be ignored, they say they need one thing but actually need another, they need to be taught and molded and protected, and good children will be grateful to whomever does.
Obviously, that's not really true. But that's what adults often believe, even if they won't admit it. So, this image persists, even across culture and species. If the adult is human, at least.
Nevermind your history or capabilities, or what you've gone through. Nevermind whatever you've suffered, even if they were there for it. Nevermind that all people here were technically brought here to fight in the same war. In their minds, in their self-centered stories, they're the heroes. And they look more heroic—it looks better, it makes them more sympathetic, it sounds better in the retelling—if they're concerned about The Children.
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Your history doesn't fit their perception of reality, the setting of their grand story, so they dismiss it as inconsequential. Everything is about them—how they appear, how things affect them, how things relate to what they know. You look like a child, therefore you have to fit their understanding of what it means to *be* a child. Human children believe themselves more capable than they are, they're loud, they're bratty and weak, their thoughts and opinions are based in fantasy and can be ignored, they say they need one thing but actually need another, they need to be taught and molded and protected, and good children will be grateful to whomever does.
Obviously, that's not really true. But that's what adults often believe, even if they won't admit it. So, this image persists, even across culture and species. If the adult is human, at least.
Nevermind your history or capabilities, or what you've gone through. Nevermind whatever you've suffered, even if they were there for it. Nevermind that all people here were technically brought here to fight in the same war. In their minds, in their self-centered stories, they're the heroes. And they look more heroic—it looks better, it makes them more sympathetic, it sounds better in the retelling—if they're concerned about The Children.
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