#for a child.

[gooseonthetable]

When I was 6 or 7, I would freak out if I didn't have easy access to a sink.

I hated my hands being sticky, it was just unbearable at all times. I still hate it.

It was because of this that I went to therapy and got diagnosed with OCD. I started exposure therapy the next week. I'm quite sure it was weekly.

The thing is, you can't expect a child to understand that exposure therapy is supposed to fit into their boundaries, because a small child is taught that they should do adults tell you, and as long as they do that, they're fine.

Saying "No" wasn't something I did often. Being told that I wasn't 'picky' or anything like it was nice, but I mainly didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

I think that's why I have such negative feelings towards exposure therapy. I tell people that I went to exposure therapy and they tell me that they want to go, to see if it would help them with ___. I have never seen it as helpful, though. I've always seen it as something I had to go through because of a condition I have.

Someone saying that they want to go to exposure therapy will always sound foreign. Strange. Confusing.

It's always a "Why would you want to?" feeling. There's not quite a word to describe it. Sort of an empty feeling, maybe.

It's like somebody had just told me they wanted to get stuck on the nether roof in a hardcore world.

...The therapist wasn't 'bad', I wouldn't say. I don't hate her. She wasn't a bad person, and she tried to adjust it to my age, I think.

I wish that the plan followed the 'one step at a time' idea, like I was told it was supposed to.

At my first day at therapy, I hid behind a chair. Because I was expected to eat food that had dropped on the ground, since 'normal kids' would be able to do that without qualms about it.

It's strange to be told that you shouldn't be upset about something that should seem disgusting to everyone. Not only is it the floor, but this was a therapists office. It's not a clean space to eat from.

I wouldn't always, or, usually, have time to eat before. I'd usually end up bringing a lunch or something like that. I'm pretty sure it was because this interrupted school, and I hadn't had lunchtime yet.

It's kind of odd to be told that since you are learning to accept things, that the thing that you brought, something you enjoyed, should be ruined on the ground before you ate it. Before you enjoyed it.

I quickly learned to eat in the car

I don't exactly know what this is about, but this is a better explanation of how I got diagnosed with OCD and what exposure therapy was like for me. There's more, but unfortunately it's 2:35 am, and I have school tomorrow

So, thanks for reading.

[beif0ngs]

Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary stop motion short by creator Patrick McHale and Aardman Animations

[doccywhomst]

coding got me saying shit like “target the child” “assign its class” “override its inheritance” like the third wife of a dying oil baron discovering his of-age son born out of wedlock

[motherofplatypus]

This is how many bullets they shot on a fucking kid.

This post has been compiled in Record of Genocide.

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[thebreakfastgenie]

I absolutely think adults, especially parents, ascribe manipulative intent to children when they shouldn't and it's absolutely a problem but it's always kind of funny to me when people go online and proclaim that children are incapable of manipulation. When I was three I asked my mom to get my older sibling their favorite candy bar at the grocery story because I knew she'd get me mine too as a reward for being thoughtful and that was way more likely to succeed than if I just asked for a candy bar for me. And it worked. Children scheme at a developmentally appropriate level the trick is not assuming children scheme at an adult level.

[marzipanandminutiae]

As someone who works with social history for a living, I feel like I’m the aggressive opposite of an anti-vaxxer

I fucking LOVE vaccines, friends. Give me the science stab. I’m so ready. it’s a beautiful day to not die of a Bajillion and one diseases that carried off like half the population before they had even reached age 10, and a significant portion before they made it to old age, 150 years ago

I go to the old cemetery. I see the vast numbers of infant and child and young adult graves. And then I go to my doctor and get injected with Potion of Fuck That Noise. This is beautiful and miraculous and I do not remotely understand how some people can reject it – not just for themselves, but for their children

[ultraviolet-divergence]

The group released approximately 6,000 crickets from bags hidden on their persons which they snuck through security just before a talk on the “dangers” of medical transition. They made sure to spread the crickets (which do not infest and pose no danger to humans) across the entire hall, in order to ensure the conference could be safely brought to an end. The speech was postponed and later speeches were cancelled.

[morganbritton132]

Anyways, thinking about Batman pulling his disappearing act on the GCPD rooftop for the first time after partnering with Robin, and just leaving Robin behind.

Gordon turns around, notices that Batman is gone but the kid is not. Then Robin notices that Batman is gone, and promptly burst into tears because, “He left me! He left me behind!”

Jim Gordon is not heartless and he’s a father, he takes the kid into the precinct. He gives him a blanket and a snack. He tries to calm him down and asks if he knows a phone number that he could call for Batman. He gets a wobbly, “He doesn’t have a phone.”

Jim steps out of his office for a second to speak with an officer about turning the bat signal back on, and when he gets back to his office the kid is gone. The crime scene photos and forensic report from the joker attack yesterday are also gone from his office.

Meanwhile Robin is standing in the alley behind the GCPD, waving as Batman grapples down to meet him. He gives him a big smile and says, “I got the evidence!”

“Good job, Chum.”

[politijohn]

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[beaft]

a small child came into the café today and asked to buy a chocolate truffle. he tapped a credit card on the reader and it did not go through, mainly because it was not a credit card but in fact a junior cinema pass. i gently explained he couldn't use that to buy things in shops and he looked so gutted that i was like "...but just this once you can have it for free, don't tell my boss though" he said thank you and walked out with his truffle and as he went i heard him chuckling to himself and saying "yes..... yes!!!!!" like the sickos comic

[littlelightfish]

Funny things I found out playing with language setting in Netflix while looking episode 15:

Chilchuck's scream sounds HAUNTED in brazilian portuguese. Give it a try if you can.

(You can hear it here)

In spanish dub, Senshi says: "tocó mis senos de hombre", which means "he touched my man boobs" in Spanish. And I think that's the best dub line one so far.

[eyeonpalestine]

[theswampghost]

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[sabertoothwalrus]

don't ask him about that it's private