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I& #39;ve had a couple of days to sit with it so I just want to say a couple of things about what went down the other day in regards to my son.
It turns out that I have tweeted his age a few times, but honestly I tweet about him so rarely that I& #39;d forgotten. That was why my first thought was that someone had taken it from group chat, because we& #39;d just had issues with someone spreading info from it.
But even if my son& #39;s info didn& #39;t come from chat, that still means people deliberately, specifically searched my Twitter to dig up that info on him. That& #39;s just as invasive and gross IMHO.
For a group of people that are very loud about "you can& #39;t do anything to us, we& #39;re minors," they had no problem searching for and openly discussing my son, a minor, and using him as a weapon to mock and shame me. Disgusting.
He never should have been brought into the discussion to begin with. I know that drama on Twitter is as inevitable as the sun rising every morning, but family should be left out of it. My son is off-limits.
I try to be very conscious about what I post about him online. I don& #39;t use his name and I don& #39;t post photos without his permission. So the thought that someone had taken his info--which I shared in confidence in private--to use against me was very upsetting.
I realize now that might not have been the case but I still maintain that deep-diving on my account to dig up info on him is wrong and discussing him like "oh he& #39;s old enough to be a baby stan!" is wrong.
Lastly, saying "adults can participate in fandom" was not a direct attack on anyone. It was a stance against a mindset I& #39;ve seen across all fandoms that people over the age of 25 don& #39;t belong. Untrue.
And for the record, I& #39;m 36, not 40.
