Crafty Little Thing

Shoutout to the people with bad memories

To the people who are always forgetting stuff at home and to whom “can we turn around” is a fucking catchphrase

To the people who understand that “just write it down” doesn’t always work, because you have to fucking remember to do that, too

To the people with no functioning short-term memory

To the people with no functioning long-term memory

To the people who forget names and faces

To the people who forget times and dates

To the people who are constantly misplacing things

To the people who can remember some things, “unimportant” things, but can’t remember when they’re supposed to do that one thing

To the people who have known a person for years, but will never remember their name, no matter how many times the person tells them

To the people whose executive functioning disorder means their memory is shit

To the people who are developmentally/cognitively disabled and that means their memory is shit

To the people who have brain damage and that means their memory is shit

To the people whose parents/teachers/friends are constantly getting on our cases because we can’t fucking remember shit

You’re valid and important

It’s not your fault

You’re not a bad person, you’re not a burden, and anyone who says you are is a fucking douchebag

There are people out there who will love you just the way you are, who will gladly turn around so you can get that thing you forgot, who will write stuff down for you, who will help you find that missing item

We can get through this together

DO NOT DO THIS.

This makes me so angry.

If you work in a movie theater and you do this I have no respect for you.

My younger brother is Type 1 Diabetic.

When we go to a movie theater, we always get him diet soda. If he were to get regular when we asked for diet, we would not give him the insulin he would need for it. If that happens, his blood sugar level could go so high he could go into a coma, go blind, or even die.

If somebody gave him regular soda instead of diet without telling us, that person could be responsible for a nine-year-old being killed or blinded.

Just thinking about that makes me so angry. I get scared every time we take him to a movie in case the people working there saw this picture and decide to do the same thing.

I am very sensitive to lactose, not Lactose intolerant but because of stomach ulcers that are still healing. A couple years ago I went to Starbucks right after my classes with some friends and asked for a green tea latte with soy milk. The barista, for some reason out of malice and/or hate for her life so she took it out on me, gave me whole milk in my latte.

5 minutes after my first sip of latte, my stomach cramped BAD. Not the “Oh! time to poop!” kind of cramp but it felt like someone had stabbed me with a knife and twisted it. Now I’ve had this happen before so I knew the cause of it. I went up to the barista clutching my gut screaming at her that she put dairy in my latte rather than soy LIKE I REQUESTED. She denied it and called me a “pretentious white girl for wanting soy”and so my friends got the manager. I had to explain that I had stomach ulcers that were still healing and if I were to go to the hospital for this incident, they would be responsible for it.

Manager flipped his shit and the barista was terrified out of her mind. Pretty sure both thought i was gonna sue. Manager actually fired her on the spot because of the negligence. My friends managed to get me home in one piece while I stayed home for 3 days in absolute agony and missed my midterm.

I’m sorry if you think it’s an inconvenience that a customer can’t eat gluten. I’m sorry if you think it’s a fad.

It’s not your place to decide if they’re “just being a hipster”, and your decision to ignore their request for no croutons or anything similar could easily trigger a terrible physical reaction.

1. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell — The story of a big game hunter finding himself stranded on an island and becoming the hunted.

2. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — A question is posed to a supercomputer that does not get answered until the end days of man.

3. The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov — A man passes away and has a conversation with the Voice in the afterlife.

4. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman — A collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of the house.

5. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson — The story of one small town’s ritual know only as “the lottery.”

6. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway — A couple has a tension-filled conversation at a train station in Spain.

7. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury — A group of schoolchildren live on Venus where the Sun is visible for only two hours every seven years.

8. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut — It is the year 2081, and all Americans are equal in every possible way.

9. The Monkey by Stephen King — The story of a cymbal-banging monkey toy that controls the lives around it.

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