They don’t stay in charge, and they are also tasked with fixing all the corrupted and shattered gems from the war. So they give up their political power and fix their mistakes. I don’t know what further consequences (that would be kid-show appropriate) they should get.

The show is an allegory for being trans and how family may treat you like shit for wanting different things than them. It is made for kids under 13 years old. Telling kids they should kill people after they have changed and agreed to fix what was broken seems like a bad thing.

Also, the creator (Rebecca Sugar) is a queer Jewish person, so I think they are well aware of the history of fascism and its consequences. They chose to make the tone and arc of the show anyways, and maybe you should think about why they made that choice before criticizing a children’s show for not encouraging murder as a solution to problems.

Also, shattered gems are shown to still have at least some awareness, meaning that shattering the Diamonds wouldn’t be killing them, but subjecting them to eternal torture. While also removing the only hope for fixing the gems that are corrupted. Which is what the Diamonds are tasked with to start making things right, along with giving up their social power over the rest of the gems.

The biggest thing that I learned was that I had to redefine what my path to trauma recovery would look like. There are a lot of things that I do that I attributed to coping with trauma, but now I need to ask myself what I am trying to do and whether I should seek to stop doing those things.

For example, since that explanation is a bit convoluted: as a kid, I learned how to walk very quietly by walking on the balls of my feet, because it was useful for getting a snack from the pantry when I was refused dinner. But I also just like walking on my toes sometimes, and learning that this is common among people on the spectrum helped me accept that.

It also helped me look at my childhood and see how much of my trauma was a response to me struggling with that divergence. Having trouble managing emotions to the point of panic attacks at age 8 I can now recognize as autistic meltdown. There were many cases where I was labelled maliciously compliant to orders, and I now understand that it was because I was interpreting the command very literally, which is still something I struggle with as an adult.

I am technically subclinical, in that I got evaluated and was not given a diagnosis of autism/ASD. However, the guy doing my eval said “If thia were 10 years ago, I would give you a diagnosis of Aspergers, but that doesn’t exist anymore, so I can’t give you a diagnosis.”

It wasn’t until I talked to my therapist, who had referred me, that I realized that Aspergers doezn’t exist because it was rolled into ASD. Meaning I likely did qualify for a diagnosis. But the guy decided to say my symptoms were all due to my trauma, ignoring the fact that quite a bit of that trauma was the result of me having these traits and my parents labelling me a difficult child as a result.

I sought a diagnosis mostly because I have a lot of sensory issues and communication difficulty, and I had several diagnosed friends who said I was likely on the spectrum.