That example kind of reminds me of families with autistic kids where the parents are told they need self-care and treating themselves and indulgence because having an autistic child is just so trying, while the kids get... nothing. They're assumed to either be selfishly happy, or to have so little of a mental state, if they're nonverbal, that they can't even understand the concept of having a good life vs. a bad life, let alone understand anyone else having one. Then if one of the parents kills the kid, fellow "autism parents" shower love and praise on them, saying they don't need punishment because having an autistic child is so trying that no one can be expected to do anything but murder them, or... something?
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Date: 2019-03-17 01:42 am (UTC)-Riel