Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK
This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂
In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer. In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job. Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.
And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what! People are living with their parents again. But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.
My grandpa lived with his parents until he was married in his thirties and saved a TON of money let me tell you
this is such a silly thing but I see the tide pod memes are on the rise and I just want to shout into the void that I read a study about people eating these things, mostly adults with dementia. before this progresses to people jokingly biting into them please be aware that the substance inside is so deeply caustic that it can damage your esophagus after one bite to such an extent that it causes necrosis and you die. please do not, as a joke, bite the pods.
Why do parents of disabled people just think they don’t have any obligation to respect their children’s privacy? Would you think it okay to talk about all the times your 12-year-old had an emotional outburst if they were “normal”? Who’s gonna tell these “warrior mommies” a diagnosis isn’t a free pass to not treat your kids with basic dignity?
I honestly don’t care if your nonverbal teenage son wet the bed again, that’s not something you post on WordPress to monetize. I don’t care if your daughter screams when people try to hug her, you don’t publicize that just to whine about how hard that is for you. These are still HUMAN BEINGS and you are required to have respect for them.
here’s a hot take: giftwrap is dumb, 95% of the time you can just hand someone the thing and accomplish the same task. Society has conditioned us to love wrapping shit up for no reason, probably by gift wrap industry people.
Counterpoint: monkey instinct says uncovering secret bounty from colorful shell good as fuck
it’s fun to get a wrapped gift tho? and wrapping paper is pretty? and if you don’t want to spend the money you can make it yourself from almost anything?
Weekly reminder that transgenderism is 100% a medical condition and is not a fashion trend for you to use for your androgynous aesthetic or a artistsic/political statement.
Reminder that you literally have to have a disconnect between your brain and your biological gender, aka gender dysphoria, to be diagnosed as transgender. That is required criteria medical personal use to make that diagnosis.
Reminder that demedicalizing transgenderism would lead to transitioning not being covered by insurance, making it impossible for many actual trans people to afford the medical care they need.
Reminder that trying to medically transition when you don’t have dysphoria strips resources from transgender people. Surgeons and endocrinologists have long waiting lists, and contrary to popular belief there isn’t some unlimited fountain of testosterone and estrogen. Just google HRT shortages and you’ll find that estrogen shortages happen more often than you’d like to believe.
Reminder that it’s OK to be a gender non conforming cis person. I don’t understand why some people literally WANT to suffer from a debilitating mental illness instead of being comfortable in the body they were born in. It’s ok to be a girl that who is into stereotypically masculine things. It’s ok to be a boy who is into stereotypically feminine things. That’s not what being transgender is.
Reminder that personality doesn’t equal gender and being gender nonconforming doesn’t make you some “nonbinary” gender. It’s biologically impossible to have a “nonbinary” brain.
Agressive reminder to all parents that if your child is really struggling with/is unable to do basic everyday things like going to school , socializing or helping out at home your first assumption should be that there might be something wrong mentally or physically, not that they’re bad, lazy people who aren’t trying their hardest.
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