r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '19

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u/alex_moose Dec 19 '19

The inability to connect cause and effect amazes me. Five-year-olds have that figured out.

It's actually a key developmental milestone that some people never really achieve. The problem is greater with kids who grow up in abusive homes.

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u/Uffda01 Did you test it in DEV first? Dec 19 '19

Is that because the cause/effect loop is broken or unstable and unreliable in an abusive home?

For example: kid was well behaved, still abused; then kid not behaved, no abuse etc with no steady cause/effect between trigger and abuse?

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u/ninxi Dec 19 '19 edited Dec 19 '19

Or, and this is even worse, any action from the kid could result in abuse.

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u/Nik_2213 Dec 19 '19

MIL was a 'peripatetic teacher of the deaf' and reported such. Random praise & abuse means that children, kittens, puppies etc develop a dysfunctional world-model...