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Do babies and infants get trolling? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Do they understand and actually bona fide engage in trolling?

If not linguistically than in what they do?

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[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

This develops into the toddler who —after you've given advice, demand, direction, instruction, or other adult support — looks you dead in the eye, does the exact opposite, and acts like it's your fucking fault.

They perfect trolling.

Hopefully, by the time they're four, they come to understand that trolling your family is not a great survival strategy. Some people grow out of it. Some are just trolls to 'others', outside their established ingroup.

There are some people who'd sell their own mothers on a lark. Or, reneg on a friend just to see them squirm. Or, impose tariffs on allies and inflame every enemy but one. Those people, they're behaving like toddlers.