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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids who are trying to get jobs basically taking care of younger kids at a sleep-away camp are telling you their mental health limitations and need of accommodations? No way would I hire someone who needs to be taken care of to take care of other kids.

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Which is illegal.  So - that's probably why you're not someone who does hiring.[/quote]

Well I hope you don’t do any hiring if you think it’s perfectly ok to put mentally ill teens in charge of little kids.[/quote]

To be clear, most of these kids aren’t actually mentally ill. They’re just normal teens going through the process of adolescence and all that comes with it but they’ve been overexposed via social media to pathologizing ANYTHING as a “mental health issue” and they’ve been raised in a time when identity politics mean they believe that all these labels have to be attached to who they are.

I’ve posted previously about how I see this in high schools . Kids will tell me they are non binary because “some days I want to dress more feminine and other days more masculine.” They truly don’t realize that is true of pretty much all women- you can wear a dress one day and a flannel the next day and it doesn’t mean you are non binary. They will self diagnose with all manner of disorders based on incredibly common and normal “symptoms” (eg, they feel sad some days and happy others so they’re convinced it’s BPD).

They are just playing with labels and trying to figure out who they are and they do the same thing with mental health. Now, it’s an issue that they think this needs to be brought up so often as in regular conversations with their teachers or in job interviews, but most of them are not truly mentally ill. They’re just young and immature. [/quote]

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