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How young can you be when you irrevocably mess up your life? and How?

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Just a thought I had, like what can a ten year old do(besides mass murder & accidents) that messes up their life so badly that it is unrecoverable?

It has to be something that is self inflicted and not something that is the cause of others around them.

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BCsven@lemmy.ca
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I was watching a Netflix documtary about killers, the guy said he was on drugs by age 9…so pretty sure that messed up his life before the murder. It is debatable on if surroundings or self choices are why you try drugs I guess.

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Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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It takes a certain kind of environment to enable that.

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DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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Agreed. Also Nancy Reagan told me not to, and I was not in a position to argue.

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Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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Well, if Nancy said so, it must be true.

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XIIIesq@lemmy.world
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Right, “should I do drugs?” is not a typical choice for a 9 year old to have to make, they should be protected from that. I have heard stories of particularly shitty parents giving drugs to their own young children.

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monobot@lemmy.ml
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9 year olds don’t have “self choice” to use drugs.

Evem adults most often don’t have it. Addiction starts with trauma, often in mother’s womb. If mother is under stress while pregnant, huge and long stress, child has much bigger chances to become an addict.

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