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The value of Tumblcoin has exploded, leaving some to wonder if it’s too late to throw their entire savings into this completely unstable market. Official Tumblcoin News sat down with Tumblr’s Chief Coin Officer to ask them what you want to know.

Given Tumblcoin’s erratic behavior in its 14 hour existence, what would you say to people who want to invest right now?

The only way to win is to play. We’re urging users to reblog and like their favorite memes to drive the value of TBC higher and higher, and we’re counting on them to create and post original memes to shatter the ceiling of this market.

Are some memes worth more than others?

This is an equal opportunity cryptocurrency, and we plan to keep it that way.

In retrospect, was it a poor decision to call Tumblcoin “The Unsinkable Currency”?

If we had to go back and write the press release all over again, I would have absolutely not painted a picture that likened Tumblcoin to the Titanic. That was, admittedly, a big whoops.

Anything parting words?

Kyle: no one here listens to me :( does anyone really like me :(((

Rogelio: luv my dumbass bf

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The worst possible thing you can do for a child who is fat, gender nonconforming, disabled, LGBT+, or otherwise different from most of the other children they will grow up knowing, is to tell them they have to hide or get rid of their differences so people won’t be mean to them.

You need to refuse to become a child’s first bully. The world can be an awful, cruel place to kids who aren’t like their peers – but you can counteract some of that cruelty instead of being the first to show it. Accept kids for who they are and teach them that they deserve respect and care as they are, that they don’t have to earn love or kindness by suppressing parts of themselves to fit someone else’s idea of who they should be.

Even if you actually succeed in forcing a child to be ‘more normal’, the lessons they take away from seeing themselves as unworthy without changing major aspects of their appearance, personality, etc., will stay with them forever. It’s traumatic to be told who you are as a person is a bad thing.

Whether you succeed or not, the attempt will teach them that it’s acceptable for others to demand they change major aspects of who they are; that bullying is an acceptable way to show love; that they deserve any cruelty people show them for being different; and that if others around them are ‘weird’, they’re entitled to bully those others into compliance just as they themselves were bullied – by you.

Children with eating disorders are in a worse position than happy fat kids with adults in their life who love and support them exactly as they are. Children who are bullied until they stop self-expressing in ways that defy gender roles are in a worse position than happy gender nonconforming kids who have adults in their life who stand up for them and love and support them exactly as they are.

Autistic kids who grow up in an environment where their differences aren’t treated as burdens are better off than autistic kids who are traumatized by abusive therapies where they’re trained to deny any uniquely autistic needs, pain, or body language and taught implicitly that who they are is lesser.

Don’t try to change a child to make the world safer for them. By teaching them that who they are is the problem, rather than the bullying itself, you are being part of that danger. Instead, do everything you can to honour and respect the children you love for who they are.

Encourage them to think well of themselves and to not believe any messaging they’re receiving from the world that tells them they’ll never be good enough until they conform. Seek out and create positive representation of people like them – and people who are different in a multitude of other ways – who are good, interesting, worthwhile people. Compliment them on the unique ways they express themselves. Teach them not to be afraid of not being exactly like everyone else.

You can tell a child that their identity is valid all you want, but if that child doesn’t believe it themselves, nothing is going to change. If they hear everyone around them being called special for existing, then special isn’t all that special anymore. Adopting that sort of mindset without reason is essentially the same as telling yourself every day “Remember the sky can always be blue if you just see it that way!” Without rational evidence as to why/how they’re valid or special, such as the child’s accomplishments or good deeds, they won’t believe the claim, as true as it may be.

Entrapta is coded to be autistic and shows clear signs associated with autistic spectrum disorder such as

- “routine” in her case she only ever eats ‘tiny food’ and will only drink ‘fizzy drinks’

- has trouble reading social cues

- has trouble with empathy

- hyper fixations (her experiments)

- has easier time connecting with animals (or in her case her robot Emily)

- doesn’t understand sarcasm

- seems to lack basic social skills and understanding that are natural for others.

And I love her for this.