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ed-recoverry · 1 year

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Glass Children Info & Masterpost

Only recently being recognized as a huge trauma itself, I’ve seen nothing on Tumblr being posted about glass children. And as a glass child myself, which is a part of the reason I’ve struggled severely with mental illness, especially in my early teen years, it can be very upsetting. However, it’s still incredibly popular to view what we experience as invalid and that we should “appreciate we aren’t like them” (which is incredibly insulting to both parties and I hate hearing it). Idk if this will get any notes, but I wish someone told me what I went through is valid and a real thing and I hope maybe this will show one person the same:

Glass Child: siblings of a person with a disability. The word glass means people tend to see right through them and focus only on the person with the disability. 'Glass' is also used because the children appear strong, but in reality are not. These children have needs that are not being met.

The term was popularized and recognized in Alicia Maples’s “Recognizing Glass Children” TedTalk posted in December, 2010 in which she talks about her experience growing up with a severely Autistic brother.

It is important to acknowledge that the disabled sibling plays no role in the conditions and problems a glass child endures as they did not choose to have a disability. The conditions and problems are a product of bad parental management and being a victim of circumstances. As a child, not understanding this bigger pictures may sometimes cause a glass child to see their sibling as the problem, but it is important to stress the sibling has no part in it.

Examples of challenges glass children experience during childhood:

Severe emotional and or physical neglect from guardians

Severe pressure to be the “perfect” kid

Feeling as if you must help others before yourself

Strong anger of not having a “normal” family, but feeling shame for feeling anger.

Putting in extra effort to appear okay even when they aren’t

Taking on the tasks (both physical and or mental) that are reserved for parents

Feelings of hopelessness

Hyper-vigilance and anxiety

Feeling of being taken for granted

These experiences during childhood follow you into teenage years and adulthood.

Symptoms a glass child can show later in life:

Trauma-related mental illnesses (ex: anxiety, depression, PTSD, personality disorders, eating disorders, etc.)

Self-sabotaging or self-injurious behavior(s)

Low self esteem

Putting other’s needs before one’s own, even at their own expense

Lack of self identity or never developing their own personality

Hyper-vigilance to an inappropriate degree

Extreme sensitivity

Struggles with trust and or vocalizing feelings and needs

Difficulty in adjusting to new, unexpected situations

Avoidance of any form of conflict to the point where it has negative impacts on day to day life

Learn More:

Glass Child Syndrome And Symptoms

Glass children: The overlooked siblings of the people we treat.

What is a glass child?

How We Can All Help Glass Children

Growing Up a Glass Child

Glass Child Syndrome And Symptoms

Glass children: The lived experiences of siblings of people with a disability or chronic illness

Glass Children

At least from my experience, one of the biggest problems that follows me till this day is being extremely sensitive as to when I feel my feelings or presence is being invalidated. This is not completely my imagination however as the term “glass child” as of now has no place in the DSM-5, any dictionaries, and not even a Wikipedia page despite the years and years of studies and proof showing that the existence and damage of being a glass child is very real and a problem. I myself didn’t know about this term until a few months ago. And that was from TikTok of all places. I hope this makes at least one more person aware that we exist, we are valid, and we are not “the lucky one.” Both the disabled sibling and the glass child(s) deserve the recognition for enduring the hardships life threw at them. We both deserve it.

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glass-children · 1 year

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Glass child culture is never having anyone over to your house because it always looks completely and totally destroyed and disgusting

#glass child awareness #glass child #glass children #child neglect #victim of neglect #emotional neglect

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bonefall · 1 year

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Yo are you actually gonna portray Blossom and Bumble as Glass Children? Cause that's actually pretty dang cool.

[Definition for those who don't know; Glass Children are children overlooked in a home because of one high-needs sibling. They often feel like their parents see right past them, hence the term.]

Y'know, you're the second anon who mentioned Glass Children. I didn't actually know there was a term for it until a day or so ago.

So I have to admit it wasn't intentional; it was just me trying to follow what I think the books SHOULD have done with Graystripe and the frayed relationship he has with his second litter. I had several inspirations for it!

For Bumble and Blossom with Millie, the term fits super well, and I'll be doing more research into it for how they feel about their mother.

For Graystripe I'm not sure if the term fits; I'll describe it and you can tell me if it still sounds like Glass Children;

They're acutely aware that they have two older siblings; one distant and one dead. They have never known them, but they do know that Graystripe is always thinking of them.

"Feathertail never did that; StarClan chose her to find the lake, you know."

"Stormfur wouldn't say something like that."

"Feathertail did the same thing when she was your age!"

"Aww, Stormfur's mane looks just like yours! I wish I could show you..."

This applies to Briarlight equally. Blossomfall and Briarlight are both intelligent enough to piece together that Graystripe never moved on from his loss. He doesn't mention Silverstream nearly as often as Feather and Storm, but they were able to realize he prioritizes Millie over them for that reason.

I don't know if Bumblestripe really gets it, his response is to just keep trying endlessly.

So what do you think? Does that also sound like Glass Children or is there another term for that?

#Glass children #Graystripe #Graykin #Briarlight #Blossomfall #Bumblestripe #Bonefall OotS #Bonefall Rewrite

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rjalker · 3 months

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self-identified "glass children" who are fully grown adults: We're not ableist for blaming our disabled siblings for our parent's abuse.

also self identified "glass children" who are fully grown adults: *describe their disabled siblings as "disgusting schizophrenic psychotic junkies" while dehumanizing them*

Just say you hate disabled people and shut the fuck up!

#ableism #glass children #victim blaming #I hate abled neurotypicals so much

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racoons-in-a-trenchcoat · 1 year

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Can someone genuinely explain why being a glass child/ talking about glass children is ableist? I genuinely do not understand this argument.

/nm /gen

#glass child #disabled sibling #sibling of disabled child #ableism #glass children

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fabcreature · 7 months

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you know what, since we've been talking about how annoying it is when people react like "what drugs were they on when they wrote this 🤪" when someone is creative, i just wanna say

everyone who says "HOW IS THIS A KIDS' MOVIE 😱😱", when a kids' movie is a little bit out of the box and features dark or deep imagery and meanings, owes me one thousand euros

#coraline #nightmare before christmas #return to oz #spirited away #secret of nimh #sorry you guys are fucking boring #kids can watch things with more artistic merit than paw patrol you know #children's media can be interesting and deep and dark #kids aren't made of glass. they can handle creepy things. they can Enjoy creepy things.#so you know. shut the fuck up and give me one thousand euros #eg posts

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laurenillustrated · 3 months

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A Mad Tea Party 🫖🎩

#alice in wonderland illustration #alice in wonderland art #alice in wonderland #alice through the looking glass #kids illustration #kids lit art #childrens book illustration #childrens illustration #childrens literature #childrens books #book illustration #book illustrations #cute illustration #fairytale illustration #storybook art #mad hatter #march hare

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owlmylove · 10 months

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YOOOOOOOO the fact that nimona’s voice as a demon baby is the same voice actress as gloreth’s in the flashback. yes the logistical explanation is it’s cheaper to have one young voice, but the sexier in-narrative explanation is that anytime nimona ever portrays a young child (other than themselves) it’s in the voice of the first and only friend they ever had. until Bal.

#when nim asked bal 'not a lot of children in your life huh?' it was a canonball being chucked from a glass palace #nimona #nimona spoilers #nimona meta #owl post

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myuminji · 1 year

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the bride walked down the aisle to where the groom stood, and there they exchanged their vows in front of the altar...

#what do you mean this isn't how it goes? The flower girls are there to throw flower petals and wedding bouquets ready on their hands too...#just twt having collective breakdowns over them as usual #it's interesting that both played the role of the bride and the groom at the same time.#only they can pull it off I swear #trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun maximum spoilers #vashwood #ish?#actually not really it's just the narrative that plays out like that #myuminjiart #just wanna point out my art a few things: the wine as bouquet. vash holding a shot glass also as bouquet.#vash trying to smile even if he says it's impossible. he tried.#the confetti thrown by the orphanage children...as if they're flower girl throwing flower petals for them....

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andy-clutterbuck · 1 month

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Rick Grimes in The Ones Who Live | 1x04 - What We

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puppetmaster13u · 4 months

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Prompt 175

Talon -William Cobb, that was his name once, he remembers that much at least- stares down blankly at the small child who is clinging to its -his His HIS- pant leg, tiny claws digging into the cloth and gripping onto the armor. It he freezes, unsure as to how to react. With Hunts or Orders, the talon knew exactly what to do. Entertain. Kill. Simple.

Talons were supposed to kill witnesses, he- IT knows this, especially as one of the oldest talons that belonged to the Court. Yet the talon hesitates, something stopping it from doing so. The child looks up at it, something oh so familiar about the motion, with blue-green eyes before burying their face against its- his?- leg.

“'̵m̸ ̵c̴o̷l̵d̸…” the child-chick… spoke? Not-spoke. Something else, familiar-yet-not. But cold, he knew that. Cold was bad, it meant sleep, not rest but a deep frozen sleep that took time to awaken from. A dangerous thing. A thing not-talons didn’t wake up from.

The chick -Hadn’t he had a child once, all that time ago- whined, bringing its-his attention back to them. Talon could wait to return to the Court for a few hours more- the task it had been given was already complete-and keep the Cold away from the tiny chick. Just for a little bit.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #court of owls #talons #Talons are Halfas #Danny has his accident way younger & is like 9 or 10 #Fun Fact William Cobb is Dick Grayson’s great-something grandfather #But he appears to be a similar age thanks to the whole frozen glass coffin things #Anyway with how many people have Danny as Dick’s clone/sibling I bet he’d remind Cobb of his own children #Danny accidentally floated intangibly in his sleep while on a trip and got lost #Thankfully he woke up & found this weird-but-safe-feeling dude half hidden by some gargoyles #Bad news: The bats might be searching for the one behind a murder that they’re quickly realizing might be Court BS #Iffy News: The Fentons are now out of Gotham without realizing Danny floated out of the GAV #Maybe Good News: William’s sick core has imprinted on Danny’s & vice versa #Dangerous News: There is now a broody talon out and about away from the Courts control

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glass-children · 25 days

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I feel like we really overlook how being raised with high support needs individuals makes you kinda gross and macabre as a default

#glass child #glass child awareness #glass children

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ruestheday · 2 days

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being a dc fan is crazy because half these fuckers have black hair and blue eyes