IDK why I'm here

I used to work at a TV station in Ohio. On weekends, we only had an 11pm news broadcast. Not much happened on weekends, ya know? I worked Monday-Friday 9-5, but someone on the weekend shift quit, so I also had to come in at 9pm on Sat/Sun to work the 11pm news. It was brutal. I worked seven days a week, even if two of them were ~3hrs.

This was a particularly bad winter. One Saturday, we had a level 2 snow emergency: That means you should only travel if you absolutely must. Like, it's not uncommon for cops to pull you over in level 2 emergencies to ask where you're going and why. It is genuinely dangerous to drive in that much snow.

I told my boss as much, how I almost crashed on the way home at 12:30am after a news broadcast. I told him I would need to call off if there were a snow emergency again during a night snow.

He told me, point blank, "If you ever call me about the goddamn snow, I will take it as a call of resignation."

And that was that! The very next Saturday, snow fell again. It was a level 2, but would become level 3 by sunup. Level 3 means driving is literally illegal except for ambulances and snow plows. I stared out the window, watching the snow, and I had to make a choice.

"Will I die for this? Will I kill myself to keep this job?" I made $11/hr.

You know what this means?

IT MEANS MY SPACE GAL ROSALINA IS COMING TO THE BIG SCREEN, BABY! HALLELUJAH! I'M SO EXCITED!

I can only hope that Illumination does her character justice! And who is voicing her, you might ask? Well, it's not Angelina Jolie.... It's this absolute legend!

That's right! Brie Larson is voicing my spacefaring princess! And I have absolute faith that she will nail this role!

Law enforcement, who are paid with tax money, are opposing socialism.

Go fuck yourself and eat a dick sprinkled with dog shit.

So, one evening, all us adults bring all the kids to a special one-night camping trip. All the kids are put to sleep, which frees up the adults to get into a circle and have some fun to ourselves for a while. People start talking, except they were forgetting to sign.  So I reminded them to please sign so I could understand them.  One of them told me that, no, they weren’t going to sign because this was our night to have fun and not have to think about communication.

So no one signed all night. They talked, they laughed, they had fun. I sat, feeling lost and cut off and betrayed. I remember wishing I had had the nerve to say, “No, what you mean is, you want a night in which everyone EXCEPT ME gets to not think about communication.”

I think sometimes when non-disabled people insist that we are too obsessed with our disability, what they REALLY mean is, “I wish you would stop reminding me that I have a shared responsibility as a fellow member of society to proactively ensure that we all have an opportunity to be engaged in society.  I wish you would just pretend to not have a disability so I can pretend that I don’t have to do anything to enable you to do the same things the rest of us are doing.”

My mother is a paraprofessional. She specializes in teaching children with special needs.

This makes many things she’s done disgustingly ableist.

She hit me as a punishment. It should have been basic knowledge that I’d never be able to make sense of why it’s wrong for me to hit but okay for someone to hit me.

She punished me for arguing whenever I asked for reasons. It should have been basic knowledge that rules are hard to understand without reasons, and that wanting to understand isn’t arguing.

She expected me to hold onto thoughts on command whenever I’m in a loud room with many people talking at once. If I peacefully allowed her to continue the conversation she had but couldn’t hold onto my thought until it was my turn to speak, she got mad. She wrongly accused me of being impatient and expecting her to drop everything to listen to me immediately, even though I made it very clear countless times that I have zero problem with her continuing her conversation but I can’t hold onto my thought on command. It should have been basic knowledge that simply existing in a room with many people talking at once can be overwhelming, and that some people have many thoughts flying through their head regularly and would find it painful to be forced to hold onto one.

She talked very fast and accused me of not listening if I couldn’t perfectly remember what she said the next day. It should have been basic knowledge that people can struggle to process large amounts of information on the spot or remember things like it’s nothing.

She told me to look her in the eye and say that I didn’t do something and assumed I was guilty if I couldn’t do that. It should have been basic knowledge that eye contact is difficult and doesn’t equal paying attention or telling the truth.

She added hidden meanings to things I’ve said and responded aggressively to what she thought I was implying, and didn’t even give me a chance to correct her misinterpretation. It should have been basic knowledge that it’s not possible to accurately assume what someone’s implying, especially when done that quickly.

She expected me to be good at everything because I’m good at math, and expected me to be able to explain math to people who struggle with it. It should have been basic knowledge that someone could have a special skill while being below average in other ways, and that someone especially a child could struggle to explain things.

She expected “talk to people” to be good advice when I struggled to socialize. It should have been basic knowledge that some people can’t socialize naturally and need clearly spelled out rules and steps. It’s understandable to not have perfect solutions, but the advice she gave showed an ignorance of what the struggle even was.

For a while, I wondered how someone could go to school and form a career of teaching children with special needs then miss so much basic information and not even consider that people with special needs exist.

You know what this means?

IT MEANS MY SPACE GAL ROSALINA IS COMING TO THE BIG SCREEN, BABY! HALLELUJAH! I'M SO EXCITED!

I can only hope that Illumination does her character justice! And who is voicing her, you might ask? Well, it's not Angelina Jolie.... It's this absolute legend!

That's right! Brie Larson is voicing my spacefaring princess! And I have absolute faith that she will nail this role!

I'm half-French and have been going to France during the holidays since I was a toddler. On one such occasion when I was a young child in the late 2000s or early 2010s, I watched an episode of a 2-D animated kid's cartoon that had an interesting plot. I can't remember the name of the cartoon, but from what I remember, it was about a young witch with long blonde hair who wore a purple sweater and had a non-human companion of some kind (probably a cat but I can't remember) and rode around on a broomstick. The plot was that some sort of curse was sweeping through the town and turning the inhabitants into monsters and the witch had to break it somehow. One scene I remember in particular was this guy watching TV before transforming into a white bat-like creature. I also remember at the end of the episode after the curse is broken that a friend (or maybe rival) of the witch, a teen girl with long brown hair and a green sweater gets turned into a monster that resembles a bat but has light-green scales.

I'm afraid I have some bad news. Noodlepikmin, one of the most iconic YouTubers behind this style of video, posted this on his channel recently.

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Vid 3: https://youtu.be/CxvNglHcIRA?si=2cTDseCJXOhYbGT8