Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
If your legs work perfectly fine but you can't use them without getting special permissions, chances are you're gonna develop some... issues.
So I think we have to remember that quirk counseling and quirk social work is a thing that exists since the kid is 5 and thus there is a social safety net that has social workers and other people who hear you out and help you with the paperwork of getting special permissions.

It is a very different place than our "Real America" or our "Real Japan" or our "Real Europe" so on and so on.

At the same time the story does demonstrate it is not enough with some people but so far we have not encountered a problem with a person who has wings is not allowed to fly due to the wings as a major quirk problem cause emotional trauma and so on.

No when the social safety net fails is on other forms of quirk use where it is part of who you are, but you can't really communicate how important this is to others for it is something "without form" such as "it is a feeling." For example Himiko Toga her Quirk is not just sucking blood to transform and you should not suck blood for sucking blood of other people without permission is icky and a social taboo. No Toga is sucking the energy and essence of another person, and Toga is learning from the experiences of other by becoming more like them. Toga's blood sucking is a form of empathy / sympathy where she can become more like another person by tasting their blood, tasting their experiences and how our energy / essence / personality literally change our experiences of the world (Remember Japan has that pop-culture belief that blood type is tied to your personality and different type of people have different types of blood.)

How was Himiko Toga supposed to explain this need and desire to a Quirk Counselor who did not understand her need, and the upsides and downsides of her sucking blood of another person, despite how icky it is? No Himiko Toga had to discover this need, this desire, and this benefit all on her own, for society never had a person who understand this need nor did they have the power to model good and bad behavior to Himiko Toga for she was too different from the default model, the default assumption.

She had to act like others, she had to play act. Mimesis as in the Greek Word for Acting / To Imitate. And there are sociable and unsociable ways of how to Act and Imitate and we are socialized as children what is the proper way to play, to work, to have desires, and be people in a society. Thus there are Mimetic Desires for we are taught our role-models as children of what we should be when we become adults.

But what happens when there is no acceptable role-models for us the children? Either because we are unique, or because our desires are incompatible with societies? What do we do then? We have this gifts, this channels, these quirks...and we do not have the memory of how to integrate these things into ourselves...