‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood

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‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
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"Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along - the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires."
—Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

It's important to note that a big part of that book is repeated evidence that Ender is not a "normal" child. He is heavily implied to have murdered one of his bullies before he was ever pulled out of society and into training (where he explicitly kills another bully).

Nah that quote's from the foreword, he's talking about himself