#thanks mom and dad

[thexnightmarexgarden]

If yall will allow me to get personal for a moment.

My father and mother made sure to raise me on shows like sailor moon, Kim possible, card captor sakura, totally spies, and the Powerpuff Girls.

These shows were so important to me as a writer and as a black child growing up. They taught me how to never give up, there's power in womanhood and feminity, have hope for the future, help those you can, and women can do anything.

These shows did so much good for little black girls everywhere and while I am certainly not a woman by any means, I thank those shows for teaching the little black girl that I was I could be strong in every way that counts.

[graveyardcuddles]

It's too late for me but I am glad that all of these "unschooling" moms on social media are showing their asses so publicly and are now getting people to start considering like "Hey maybe totally unregulated homeschooling isn't good, actually."

I grew up with parents who did the "unstructured homeschooling" thing before it was cool, and I was basically just neglected educationally and socially my entire childhood. I never got to interact with other kids my age because I was never even put into any homeschooling groups. I'm convinced the only reason I had good reading comprehension was because I enjoyed reading but in everything else? lol good luck. I don't want to get into all the ways this negatively affected me, but I mean, to this day, I struggle so badly with any kind of executive functioning. I struggle to keep jobs and friendships and relationships in general. I've never gotten my license. I was never taught how to find a place for myself around others.

I'm sure a big part of it is also because I'm some kind of undiagnosed flavor of neurodivergent. But that's a whole other issue: I'm trying to find out if I have ADHD. But part of getting diagnosed is going through your childhood history to see if your behaviors reflect those symptoms. And how can I know if my behaviors as a kid were from ADHD or autism when I never got to interact with my peers (and adults outside of my parents, for that matter)? My parents fucked me over so badly I might not even be able to get my diagnosis because my therapists and I both have no frame of reference for if my behavior was impulsive or disruptive...because I never had any structure to be disruptive in.

Anyway, I know public school has its flaws. But isolating your kid and just pretending like they're not going to have to deal with the real world and other people one day isn't the answer.

[voloslobotomyservice]

I was born today.

[dynahops]

Love is sex and romance?

Love is not sex and not romance?

Love is sex and romance without sex and romance?

Love?

[qiwhy]

I love to give care and affection as I hold you while listening to you let out your feelings because it's what I wanted as a child but never received.

I'm also going to harshly punish you with my words and hands if you're bad because that's what I received as a child...

[stephie-ana]

What a curse to be loved, yet never able to feel it… or trust it. What a fucking curse.

[hotpoopymilk]

POV your parents joined the mormon church back in the early 90's for shits and giggles and then moved to utah and raised you to actually fully believe in mormonism even though neither of them actually believed all of that and then they got divorced and fully dropped the mormon act but you still fully believed in everything and continued going to church by yourself up until you were 17 and then you had a faith crisis and now you're in your 20s trying to unpack a lifetime of indoctrination and trying to figure out what you believe in but all the while there's a tiny voice in the back of your head going, "you're wrong, you let the world/satan get to you and now you're going down the wrong path," but you also know that the path you were on before wasn't totally right either and now you're just confused about everything all the time and you're beginning to realize that you're too sheltered to thrive in the real world and too "worldly" to thrive in the world you grew up in

[skinreflectsthesun]

I forgot a scrunchie and now I’m about to have my lunch with my hair down like a feral creature 👿

[reamed]

Molly is such a cute name wtf

it is tbh

[homo-hex-ual]

I guess constantly worrying about being left by someone and having difficulty feeling attached to others are just two sides of the same coin.

[wolfstrong]

When the home made steak potatoes and salad are yummy af

[lookingatmyself]

[octobers-veryown]

Moving is not stressing, confirmed by me.

[itsquinnagain]

parents made me walk outside in the woods, now having a bit of trouble breathing and my heart is palpitating ☹️

[subtlesolitude-tailoredtaste]

🗑️🧬🕸️

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.