If you live in a safe environment, you either:
- Have mastered the chaos of direct contact with reality
- Live inside an organism that is taking care of you, in exchange for you taking care of it
A child cannot survive direct contact with reality, her organism unit is her family.
A family cannot survive without the human superorganism (unless they are amish, civilization collapse doesn’t spell doom for them)
Any thing that lives needs to have a relationship with reality. Your parent organism may cut you off from reality to “protect you”. It might be lying, or it might be doing that in good faith. It’s on you to figure out which is which