"fiddle with the knobs..."

8 July 2022: "Oh, man. Like, really sensitive, emotionally aware kids just feel responsible for everything. Like, if they'd fiddle with the knobs, like - and they were more this or they were less that, then they can make their home lives, you know, better or more manageable in some way." --Gene Demby, in a kind of aside in this episode of Code Switch.

First, this is a great episode: interesting, moving, and funny and about a culture I don't know much about. But Demby's insight stood out to me. Sensitive, "weird," little kids stand out to me, no doubt in part because I was one. Some kids feel so much that you just want to lift it from them.