I don't consider myself old, 24 years is pretty young in my opinion. But sometimes I see what currently 11-12-year-old kids, especially the blind ones, are doing online, and I feel ashamed for them.
When I was that age, it didn't even cross my mind or my friends' minds to spam servers, to freeze someone's computer with thousands of notifications. In fact, let's start with the fact that basically no extra notifications were turned on. I didn't care who logged in and out of which server, I didn't have six hundred bots dedicated to one and the same function... Of course, technology wasn't at the level then that it is now. We didn't really have smartphones; in fact, we were glad if we could handle them on our own because not all of them were able to speak.
No, this won't be a post about how everything was better in the old days, because it wasn't. I think today's kids have a much better world and have so many more things right in their hands that they could use for good things. Only the thing is, they could... Because they don't do it.
An average American blind kid's greatest amusement today is banning other kids of a similar age from here and there, and spamming them. Another kid of a similar age, but from an European country, takes revenge on the "older ones" by blasting some music at max volume on their own speaker in their own room, as if that would change anything.
These kids have no emotional intelligence, no respect for others, and there isn't a single one among them who would tell them, "wait, stop, this is not right."
Of course, we were kids too. We argued, we fought, we hurt each other. But there were a few things that were sacred: we didn't talk to our parents like dogs, we protected our friends, we would have walked through fire for our siblings, and in general, we didn't act like idiots.

#blind #emotions #respect