And there are so many reasons a kid might be quiet. I was quiet because I felt safer when I was quiet. Because I WAS BEING ABUSED. And I had to go through even more abuse at school because the teachers there wouldn’t lift a finger to stop it.
Flashback to the time my science teacher said, “If you don’t want to be bullied, don’t make yourself a target.”
Throwback to when my teacher said to me that i “basically chose to be bullied"💀
Do you know what the only thing that stopped the kids who bullied me when I was being bullied so badly I came home crying daily my entire fifth grade?
It wasn’t any of my mom’s suggestions, which were go to the teacher, go to the principal, just keep going to an adult because *surely* that will *eventually* help even though obviously it wasn’t and my life was turning into a living hell in the meantime while the authorities she put all her faith in did nothing and she didn’t lift a finger because she thought I needed to handle it on my own to learn *responsibility*. The teachers said either what this post did, or to just ignore them. Obviously none of that worked.
You know what did work?
One week when my mom was out of town, my dad was waiting by the bus stop for me. He drove his car over to some of the kids who had been picking on me, and scared the living daylight out of them by rolling down the window and asking them “so you think it’s funny to make little girls cry?” He didn’t *do* anything to them. Just scared the little shitheads so badly they hopefully never bullied anyone else ever again because they realized there would be fucking consequences.
My best friend and I didn’t have a single other issue the rest of the year. From anyone who had bullied us, not just that particular group. For the rest of the year we were left completely alone by people who had up until then tormented us every time the adults’ backs were turned.
So there you have it. Actual consequences and the fear of god (or a very angry father) are the only things that will stop bullies. Not ignoring them. And certainly not stoking their wrath more and then turning your back on them in the hopes they’ll go ‘pick on someone else’.
smh the only way to actually not get in trouble is to fuckin zip it?? i was in a fairly abusive relationship with my family and a friend at the time, and i was so mentally drained of doing anything. the "friend” was toxic and would manipulate me into just doing everything for her and that i was so important but was also worthless at the same time. i also had multiple instances of when i just got so fuckiin depressd id go to the counselling my school offers.
and that was fucking horrible. my dad was called in several times, about once every two months. because the school didnt care that there was a 13 year old crying and yelling over and over “please dont call him he’ll kill me i’ll do anything just please”. imagine a child begging for their life and swearing on their bloodline and all you say is “oh but we need to communicate this to your parents and i like calling rather than text”.
like excuse me? wtf are you tryna prove here? clearly not the point that im safe at school.
One time I was working as a waiter at a burger joint where the fries were tossed in salt and coriander and as I was bringing food over to the table for these two huge beefy guys one of them asks what the green stuff is so I go “it’s coriander” and his friend goes very seriously “he can’t have coriander” and I’m thinking shit ok maybe he’s allergic and guy 1 starts pulling up his sleeve to show me something and I’m thinking shit shit shit he’s probably breaking out in hives rn and it’s my fault but he just shows me his arm and he has this huge cursive font tattoo that just says “I fucking hate coriander”
it’s always bad for adults to interact with minors, which is why when I was born my mother was positioned at the window and I was birthed down a giant slip n slide that safely transported me to the hospital grounds, where I was quickly accepted and raised by a gang of feral babies who were born under similar circumstances. and that’s why my posts are so bad
One thing I despise about kids being uneducated about internet safety is the amount of times I’ve had to delete not just their identifying details from my page (don’t fucking tell me where you go to school), but also mine.
If you saw me at work or out and about, no you fucking didn’t.
Shut the fuck up, I’ve had death threats.
no yeah seriously. my friends and I almost got fully fucked doxxed a while back. shit can absolutely be dangerous on the Internet.
change names. don’t mention specific places. keep your personal information to YOURSELF.
if you don’t, you will almost certainly live to regret it.
An update to this: I had someone try (because luckily I’d already filtered keywords) to flood my comment section with my place of work down to the postcode with an invitation to “go say hi”.
it literally HAS to be okay to choose to be fat in order for fat liberation to mean anything at all tbh
i literally wrote this as simple and straightforward as possible and still most of the notifications i get on this post are “yeah, some people have the Fat Curse, cursed by fat, and theres nothing they can do abt it. its not your fault uwu” which is wild, bc why did you write all that nonsense when you clearly refused to read?
i am slamming my head on the bars of my enclosure. i am screaming into the starless sky and shouting that some people do want to be fat actually, and are fat because they want to be, whether they are “natually” fat, or they eat intentionally to gain weight, or they simply enjoy eating and choose not to limit that joy. there is nothing wrong with choosing to be fat. and there is nothing wrong with being fat and happy. the fact that this is so inconceivable to so many ppl, even those who claim to be body positive/neutral/fat liberationist is literally just fatphobia and nothing else. how are you expecting to make the world a safer place for fat ppl when you can’t even twist your lips to admit that fatness is desirable?
Smash that mf reblog button if you stoically ignore all labelled washing instructions and everything your mama ever told you about laundry and just send those bastards hurgling around in an overfilled tub to meet either death or glory
Something I learned from a costume designer: if an item can be washed multiple ways the designer is only legally obligated to put one of the ways on the tag, but if there’s only one way to wash that item they have to put Only on the instructions
If the tag says “Dry Clean” it’s safe to machine wash but the designer thinks it looks better if you get it dry cleaned
But if it says “Dry Clean Only” you will destroy it if you wash it any other way
Reblogging for that last bit which this 37 yr old adult did not lnowy
attitudes on this site are so weird. Making Art is essential, holy, almost mandatory to earn your place in humanity, but Consuming Media is the mind killer, base and passive and numbing to the soul. storytelling is literally thee most important thing in the world but if you really like reading / watching / listening to stories as your main hobby then you are sooo fucked in the head. everyone go sit quietly and write a trunk novel in complete isolation and then burn it so no one’s mind gets polluted with saccharine fictions.
there’s that post going around that’s a short twit thread talking about “the obesity epidemic” as a result of economic oppression and everyone’s snapping their little fingers for it but like. you guys know that we achieved socialist utopia tomorrow there would still be fat people right. you guys know that genetics play a bigger role in that than anything else and that some people will just be fat regardless of every other factor in their life right. you guys know that’s fine right.
like idk I don’t think it comes from a purposefully fatphobic place and like yes it sucks a lot that the demands of capitalism deny people a lot of opportunities to cook or learn to cook and be more engaged and intentional about their food. but it has this flavor of “poverty is bad because it makes people fat,” which only holds up as an argument if you agree that being fat is a terrible thing that happens to people rather than being a completely neutral reality about some people’s bodies.
anyone pulling any fatphobia on this post is getting blocked on sight I’m not playing.
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I just want to formally acknowledge to the person driving in front of me with bumper stickers reading “I’d Rather Be Slowly Consumed By Moss,” “Slime Mold Is My Co-Pilot,” and “Honk If You’d Rather Be Watching The Cinematic Masterpiece ‘The Mummy’ Starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz” that I know you have an account here and I approve of you
OP where are you from, bc I’m 90% sure I’ve seen that car
Edit: I only took a pic of the mummy sticker
OP where are you from,
bc I’m 90%
sure I’ve seen that car
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
“Q: It is illegal for drivers under the age of 21 to operate a vehicle while under the influence, True/False?
A: False! It is is illegal to drive under the influence at ANY age.”
Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
I passed the test because it was fairly simple compared to the damn psychological warfare conducted by the practice test I used
Actual test: Identify which of the following is a stop sign
Practice test: Four cars at a four way unmonitored intersection and youre the only one turning right. The car across from you is hydroplaning, and the driver of the car to your left exits the vehicle and pulls out a gun
happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only
Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal
Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only
aint it crazy how many people realize they’re queer when they have the language to express how they feel and a support system to encourage self exploration????
I never stop enjoying reading this. Literally everyone’s lives improves.
Ancient legends say that if you reblog this on June you get 110% gayer and stronger
Listen, I wanted to join the military too. I really, really did. But if your motivation for joining the military is anything except going somewhere far away and killing people, rethink.
If it is getting away from the situation that you’re in, if it’s the ability to serve your country full-time, if it’s camaraderie and wearing a uniform and the opportunity for college and/or job training, if it’s physical fitness and learning to live with other people who are really different than you, heck, if it’s fully paid-for travel and the ability to do cool things like respond to disasters and fight wildfires…
JOIN THE NATIONAL CIVILIAN COMMUNITY CORPS OR A CONSERVATION CORPS INSTEAD.
AmeriCorps NCCC is a residential, team-based national service program. It’s free. They provide all travel, lodging, food, and training. They even pay you a stipend. At the end you get money for college or job training. Almost everyone 18-26 gets in. If you want to be a team leader you can be older than that.
You travel around the country for 1-2 years with a diverse team doing anything from building parks to trail maintenance to serving with a food pantry to disaster relief to cutting fire line to building houses.
If you have any questions I was a team leader with this program. I am happy to answer them.
happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only
Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal
Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only
aint it crazy how many people realize they’re queer when they have the language to express how they feel and a support system to encourage self exploration????
I never stop enjoying reading this. Literally everyone’s lives improves.
Ancient legends say that if you reblog this on June you get 110% gayer and stronger
