Infantilization

Usually adults are treated like adults and kids are treated like kids. Infantilization is meaning that adults get treated like kids, which happens sometimes in our society. Workers at stores come up to us constanltly saying something like do you need helpe? Usually as kids are growing up parents or teachers offer help to them all the time. As you grow up though you usally learn that you can ask for help if you need it. So when you are shopping at a sotre you would ask someone for help if you needed it they don't need to be coming up to you constantly to see if you need help. Another example of people being infantilized is in high school teachers still make kids ask if they can go to the bathroom. I think kids by taht time would be responsible enough to decide if they can go to the bathroom or not. Infantilization is both consitent and inconstitent. In some places like in stores infantilization is consintent. But at work peole aren't usually treated as kids they are treated like adults. With US macro cultural values it depends on the situation for wheater there is infantilization or not. Most places you go shopping people are constantly coming up to and asking if you need help. There is a presence of infantilization in some situations and an absence of it in some other situations.