The Littles Stereotype

Unfortunately there are lots of stereotypes in plural communities about how children should behave.  Those exist in most of society, but there are ones that are mainly only on plural communities.

One is the Littles stereotype. A lot of people call the children within plural groups Littles, and there seems to be a 'Code of Behaviour' for them. It isn't written down or anything, but a lot of people feel as if they have to conduct themselves according to this 'code'. For instance, children are not expected to know how to spell or use good grammar. It's understandable that some children might not know how to spell, but some do, whether it is because they are good spellers in general or if they use common memory's knowledge of spelling. It is almost as if they have not been taught at school or something. People think that if a child spells and punctuates and uses grammar correctly then they are pretending to sound like children. Whatever happened to teaching children how to write and spell correctly? Being in a multiple system doesn't preclude that.

I am ten and write well for my age and feel insulted when people say that I should not be writing correctly, or that I am not really a child because I DO write correctly, or have a larger vocabulary than most children. This is silly and I wish people would realise that there are children with different abilities and levels of intelligence. I do not like those generalisations and I wish people would stop spreading them.

I also HATE sections on sites for plural people that make a 'LILZ' section and they all look the same and they think that we actually LIKE things like backward letters and sloppy things drawn in marker pen.  (I think that stuff is really stupid, actually.) This is not just about plural sites; this is about things for children in the first place. It is actually kind of patronising and it makes me not want to go to those places as they do not think children are intelligent enough to understand difficult things.

I just want people to give children a chance, that is all.