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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 268912" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>I guess the key for me is the difficult child-in-question's ability to put porn through a "realism filter", if you will.</p><p></p><p>I think a typical teen would likely understand that what he's watching is not grounded in reality, and behave accordingly when dealing with real girls and women. </p><p></p><p>But then I think about my difficult child. His social constructs are based to a large extent on visual images to which he's exposed, usually from TV and movies. He truly doesn't understand that the situations he's seeing are exaggerations and distortions rather than true depictions of how people act.</p><p></p><p>So...when he runs, he runs like Shaggy from Scooby Doo. When he's surprised, he does a double-take, just like Gilligan. And when he really really likes a girl...well, you get the idea.</p><p></p><p>For him, we either have to carefully control what he's exposed to, or deal with a living breathing big ol' uncontrollable cartoon character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 268912, member: 3907"] I guess the key for me is the difficult child-in-question's ability to put porn through a "realism filter", if you will. I think a typical teen would likely understand that what he's watching is not grounded in reality, and behave accordingly when dealing with real girls and women. But then I think about my difficult child. His social constructs are based to a large extent on visual images to which he's exposed, usually from TV and movies. He truly doesn't understand that the situations he's seeing are exaggerations and distortions rather than true depictions of how people act. So...when he runs, he runs like Shaggy from Scooby Doo. When he's surprised, he does a double-take, just like Gilligan. And when he really really likes a girl...well, you get the idea. For him, we either have to carefully control what he's exposed to, or deal with a living breathing big ol' uncontrollable cartoon character. [/QUOTE]
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