I feel like people want children to believe in Santa Claus very much out of their own nostalgia for how they imagine childhood to have been. It's not actually what childhood is like, because being a kid is significantly more confusing and overwhelming than that (there is so fucking much to understand, and just because children haven't yet made sense of things like death and sex and etiquette doesn't mean they're not trying). It seems like a mean trick to play on someone-- you're spending all your time and energy trying to make sense of this huge complex world, and we're going to throw off all your calculations with bad data? For fuck's sake.
The fact that kids manage it as well as they do is actually pretty impressive.
(Also, have I formally said hi yet? I friended you because you're friends with sovay, but I've been admiring your fanfic for a long time! Hope that this is okay?)
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Date: 2017-05-30 10:53 am (UTC)The fact that kids manage it as well as they do is actually pretty impressive.
(Also, have I formally said hi yet? I friended you because you're friends with