Oh my god, this is going on my list along with doesthedogdie.com
Holy shit that’s useful
I probably won’t find myself using this but for my followers: if you can’t handle this shit, USE THIS. If you think a movie or tv show may be hard to watch, do your homework.
Quote from an acrticle about this steaming pile of transphobic shit:
“During an event that prepares children to survive an attack by actual assailants, she was treated as if she was so much of a danger to peers that she was left exposed and vulnerable”
They made her sit in the gym while everyone else was hiding. Putting priority on noone entering the opposite-gender locker room in a life-or-very-violent-death situation is messed up enough as it is, but they told A CHILD that because she’s trans she is more dangerous to her classmates than a psychopath with a firearm.
(America’s a Fucking Disease playing in the background)
The “friend zone” and unrequited love are not the same thing. Unrequited love is, “I love you, you don’t love me in that same way, I am sad about that.” The “friend zone” is, “I love you, you don’t love me in that same way, you have therefore wronged me.”
Unrequited love is, “My unilateral crush is my problem.” The “friend zone” is, “My unilateral crush is your problem.”
I now see why I struggled with showing my interests to my parents when I was a kid.
I’m listening to my cousin going on about Fortnite. The kid adores the game and is talking about the battle pass and he how hopes to get it later on today.
My mum just flatly says she doesn’t know what that means and has told him to hurry up as they go through the door, not giving my cousin any wiggle room to explain what it means. Fortnite is special to him, he wants to talk about it, he wants to engage but how can he when at that moment, the adult he’s talking to shuts him down?
Why can’t some people just take a damn minute to listen, REALLY listen to what kids are saying? He’ll now sit in the car in complete silence because his aunt isn’t interested in what he likes.
I’m not saying everyone has to be a fountain of knowledge for things like that. Hell, you don’t have to like what another person’s into but for the love of god, at least TRY and give it a go in understanding why it’s so important to that person.
This is literally my childhood and still now. My parents never wanted to listen. Not if its about games and series nor if its about psychology the thing i want to studdy. It’s sad to see but i guess we can learn from them to not be like it. Every generation can become better parents than their parents.
my eleven-year-old cousin who is autistic just recently got a nintendo switch since he saw me playing zelda on it. he LOVES games like minecraft, breath of the wild, fortnite and splatoon and is super intelligent strategy-wise (the things he comes up with are actually really smart!)
sadly, like me when i was a kid, no one in the family really listens to him when he talks about games… and now that he keeps to himself at events and doesn’t talk anymore, they dismissed him as shy/not good with people. since i remembered how much it sucked when no one would listen to me talk about my interests, i actually listen to the poor kid. and now whenever i’m around at a family event? he instantly lights up like a beacon and makes a beeline for me to talk about his latest game adventures, since he knows i play games and will listen to him and have an engaged conversation with him!
everyone seems impressed with that, saying i’m just good with kids, but really all i did was listen, something they could also easily do! it’s not rocket science! kids want to be heard and talked to just like adults are! the saddest part to me is that it doesn’t take knowing anything about games to listen to him, because he explains it to you if you don’t understand it. (he likes to teach people stuff, even!) all it takes is a little empathy and effort.
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