We pretend we are different than children. We pretend children are not humans

[Here again we seem to have some concrete turning point; this and this age is when you stop being a child and when we will actually treat you like a human being. What absolute folly! What arbitrary nonsense! We will only stomach this to function as a society but I say to you, do not for one second believe in your own adulthood and contrast this to a young human and say they are a child. You do not see their humanity, only their child-being]