


(I, too, was born in 1991, and my therapist, who I started seeing in 2019, has helped me recognize that there’s trauma from my childhood that I brushed off as insignificant. That baby is now a grown man: Spencer Elden, now 30, filed a lawsuit this week alleging that the Nevermind cover constitutes child pornography. Psychologically speaking, he has every right to feel overwhelmed by conflicting emotions a person’s prefrontal cortex isn’t fully developed until age 25, and post-1991 developments like social media have also helped to destigmatize discussion of mental health. And a lot has changed since 1991, when Nirvana shot the album cover for Nevermind, the sophomore album that catapulted the band into superstardom - and whose image of a baby is now the subject of a lawsuit from that very baby. It’s not uncommon for people to rethink experiences from their early life.
