#I wonder if a more communal upbringing and transparency for children would defeat the backrooms imagination seeds

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I once saw an eye opening breakdown of how different navigating an urban or suburban area is for a child that's half an adult's height, how much less they can see due to the height and configuration of the environment. The presentation was about safety, how a child might find an environment not designed for them dangerous, but it also made me think about how we all must have memories about 'normal' places that are stored from that alternate perspective:

distances are twice as far

the point of view is too short to see over obscuring barriers, making even mundane environments maze-like

features or conveniences we don't use as children are alien

we are often skipped without logic between destinations as adults 'take us places' without telling us why

Many environments have few to no ways for children to interact with them so they seem barren,

environments that children DO interact with (jungle gyms, play structures, gardens or parks, swimming pools, etc.) are extremely vivid to the exclusion of their surroundings,

Some environments are seen only from the seat of a car and are viewed quickly and in a mass sample without context (unfamiliar neighbourhoods, streets with houses, stores on avenues you never will visit yourself)

rooms are much taller and more empty because we measure space in reference to ourselves and we're physically smaller

When unsupervised, children must pay attention to areas that guardians would have carried them or led them through, calling attention to many of these features even more

Uncertainty about intentions of adult people/entities with more agency than you in these spaces, outside of routines familiar to children

these map 1:1 to emotions conveyed by the Backrooms. Many people remember being a much smaller, more confused explorer.