Unless you’re talking about a person who experienced CSA before they were 13, you should not be applying the term to teenagers, PERIOD, and ESPECIALLY not anyone 18+. Saying “B-but we’re still mentally developing until age 25!” doesn’t cut it. Anyone old enough to have their own children is NOT a child themselves.



You are taking the term away from actual children just because you want to apply it to yourselves, or to fictional ships that you don’t like. You’re diluting the meaning of the word, which hurts real victims.



I don’t care how angry it makes you that you don’t qualify to be covered under terminology that gets the easiest knee-jerk reaction from others. That term was not made for you. It was made to protect LITERAL CHILDREN. It doesn’t matter how much you desperately want to infantilize yourselves and others to keep stretching how long you can excuse your actions (and your irrational fear of adulthood) on the grounds of age.

Anyone over 13 is not a child. Puberty = NOT CHILD. Teenagers are experiencing changes in hormones. Teenagers are sexually developing. Teenagers might even choose to become sexually active (as they have for many generations, which is entirely normal). CHILDREN DON’T.



LET CHILDREN HAVE THE LABEL.

