While mental health professionals are increasingly concerned about unprecedented isolation, children could be the ones who make it through with the least trauma.
Schools are shut down, sports have come to a halt, and teenagers won’t be attending their senior proms.The same way they have been since before the new world of social distancing – FaceTime, Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and video games.
Autumn Viney, a senior at Braden River High School in Bradenton, Florida, is sad that her classmates won’t be able to experience the things that other kids have. Walking at graduation has always been one of her biggest dreams, and now she probably won’t be able to experience it. She’s a self-described workaholic, both at school and on the job.“I have been more in touch than I think I ever have with people,” Viney said.
Hannah DeArmond, a senior at Bradenton's Bayshore High School, is using FaceTime and Snapchat every day now, more than she used to.
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