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Quick shout out to the Down syndrome kid from my after-school program back when I was in grade school. Like yea he had the usual issues but he was a sweetheart and quite funny; and one day both his parents showed up at the same time to pick him up and I had the experience of meeting a family of genetically disabled people that had jobs and a home and a kid in school and it was a profoundly normalizing experience for me like I couldn’t take eugenicists seriously after that because like “no they totally can have whole entire meaningful lives with marriage and children and work and hobbies have you not met Dennis??” Anyway quick shout out to Dennis you were a real one

rebecca black was right. It’s Friday

The intimacy is when someone understands the walls you built for your own protection and approaches them with patience instead of pressure

One of the strangest things about coming on this website is realizing that I’ve spoken with the “tumblr accent” my entire life, and just never realized it. Just causally making proclamations like “BEHOLD” and referring to anything mildly inconvenient as “my nemesis”. And it makes me wonder how many people irl just assumed I already was on tumblr.

also I don't think parents "these days" are uniquely terrible, I just think neglect is showing up in new ways as technology progresses. today's ipad kid would've been wandering around in a ditch alone all day and night before. parents not wanting to have to deal with children is not a new phenomenon.

i bring a delicate and lost princess vibe to the function