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[aymmgreen]

"how do you have patterns? 🥺"

"you're working with jinu? 😠"

the difference in their reaction is still sending me. like okay they're surprised she got patterns.. but the moment they heard their Rumi was working with Jinu... lmao. 😭

[thelastbraincellofthehive]

I'm sorry, this just came to me

[prophecydungeon]

that’s not………. how child speech works…………………………………………..

[prophecydungeon]

god okay in an attempt to be less of an asshole, here’s how child speech DOES work (or tend to work, at least)

kids tend to hypercorrect — this means that they tend to say things like “sleeped” instead of “slept,” “writed” instead of “wrote,” “goed” instead of “went,” etc

kids tend not to make errors such as omitting verbs (“i hungry”)

kids also tend not to make errors in the i/me, she/her department (“me am hungry”)

simplification of difficult sounds — consonant clusters especially, so things like st, sp, ps, etc., as well as f, v, th-sounds, ch-sounds, etc.

“babbling”-type utterances (“apwen” for “airplane,” using one babbly word for multiple objects, things like that) generally occur in children under the age of three and a half

say it with me: an eight-year-old child is not going to be saying “me hungwy”

do not confuse child speech with stereotypical learner english mistakes, that’s not only incorrect but also gross on the stereotypical learner english front (“me love you long time,” anybody?)

if you’re going to write kidfic please do some goddamn research

[prokopetz]

Totally. It can be helpful to remind yourself that young children tend to speak as though the English language actually made sense. Our brains are pattern-recognising machines: children are really, really good at puzzling out the implicit rules of the English language, but they don’t necessarily know all the silly exceptions and bizarre edge cases that break those rules yet - those can only be learned through experience and rote memorisation.

Basically, when children who speak English as a first language make mistakes, it typically reflects a tendency to treat English as more grammatically, syntactically, and/or orthographically consistent than it really is. In some cases, this can be compounded by the fact that some kids will get offended at how little sense “proper” English makes, and insist upon using the more consistent forms even though they know very well that they’re technically “wrong”.

[idiagroena-deactivated20160720]

for a long young portion of my life I insisted on pronouncing Sean “SEEN” because that’s how it’s spelled.

[pftones3482]

As someone who spends a good majority of her time working with kids, it irks me to no end when I see children written as if they’re babies.

Past the age of about five or six years old, children can have deep, intellectual conversations about the most bizarre of things. I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH FOUR THIRD GRADERS ABOUT THE GAS PRICES AND TAXES IN HAWAII.

Were they entirely correct in the facts they were giving? No, because it was all from what they had heard from parents or on the news. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that I was having a genuine conversation with four eight and nine year olds about taxes.

Just about the only speech problems most kids have, unless they have a speech impediment, is not being able to pronounce certain consonants (replacing ‘th’ with ‘fw,’ for example, and some letters are harder to form with your mouth than others) and doing exactly what the person above said: using the English language the way they know how, which isn’t always the way English works.

Kids aren’t stupid. Stop writing them like they are.

[roboticchibitan]

Okay, I had to remind myself this today but! Rest is an activity. It's a gentle activity, yes, but it is an activity. You're not "doing nothing" you are recovering from whatever taxing thing and preparing for future taxing things. Lying there cranky about having to rest will ruin the quality of your rest. As will beating yourself up or being annoyed at yourself for "doing nothing." You're not doing nothing. You're investing time into giving your body the best shot it has at getting through tomorrow unscathed. Rest is something you Actively Choose To Do in order to Feel Better or at least Not Worse. It's like when you plug in a phone. You say it's charging. As in, charging is an activity the phone is doing. Charge your body too.

[yuribomber-deactivated20251222]

saw a couple posts today about the bodily autonomy of children and minors, specifically from a trans perspective. i wanted to add my thoughts as an intersex person, but since almost every popular publicly intersex person on tumblr is insufferably transmisogynistic, i decided it would be better to make my own post.

Children and minors should be allowed to transition. no nuance.

When a trans minor wants to medically transition, the argument against them is that they could regret that later.

When my parents and my doctors forced hormone therapy on me, they told me i would regret it later if i *didn't* have it done.

so my first puberty was artificially amplified with growth hormones and estrogen blockers. funny thing is, i ended up regretting that. and i resent everyone who forced me through that, because i said over and over and over again that i DO NOT WANT to be taller, or a deeper voice or facial hair or anything.

but nobody listened because i was a minor.

[yuribomber-deactivated20251222]

intersex bodily autonomy and transgender bodily autonomy are inextricably linked.

a trans minor needs parental consent to transition, but if a parent want to forcibly transition their intersex child, they don't need the consent of the person who's being transitioned.

trans people, especially minors, face a million barriers on the path to medical transition, but doctors will actually encourage, or even pressure parents of intersex children into getting them "fixed."

[hadalogic]

This is what thrill feels like, darling

[aspoonfulofsugar53]

teehee polytrixxxx

[nekomimidusteon]

at some point she should probably introspect as to why her response to every possible situation is to enter Fight/Flight mode and always pick Fawn. which has functioned well enough for her so far but it is a bit depressing to think about how being asked "what do you want to do"/ "what do you want to eat" or the Concept Of Asking For Something For Herself gives an overwhelming sense of dread

[weedp4nties]

Please do not shut up about trans women's blogs being terminated disproportionately. You have to care more about speaking out against this. You have to care more about the girls that have been termed to oblivion. You have to care more about the girls that haven't come back. You have to care more about trans women.

Don't let them get away with it!

[creepymutelilbugger]

hey if you have any spare money we have like three weeks to make rent or we and our cats are fucked

my roommate and i are two autistic trans women, one of whom is plural, who have been denied work as a result. our apartment has been left in a completely disastrous state by our former roommates moving out, and we need rent and cat food and cleaning supplies and general help while we frantically kill ourselves looking for jobs and rewriting our resumes repeatedly. please help us not die. literally any tiny ass amount is so much better than nothing. thank you very much love you. here are photos of our cats as thanks for hearing me out

my goal just to cover rent is 1100 usd. it is a lot. i do not expect to make it all like this, but we need all the help we can get right now. please share if you can’t donate. thanks

pp: @rainwave17

cashapp: $rainwave117

dm for zelle

thank you so much

[creepymutelilbugger]

we are at 275/1100!! thank you to everyone who has helped so far, i am actually not feeling completely hopeless anymore!! please continue to share if you can, and only donate if you have the money to spare. thank you all <3

[creepymutelilbugger]

325/1100 today!

[creepymutelilbugger]

400 TODAY!!! THANK YOU!!!

[creepymutelilbugger]

We haven’t gotten anything in a few days and we’re almost out of food in the kitchen. We had to use some of the money on garbage bags, paper towels, bug spray, soap, etc. and are back down to 350. Please give what you can, our kitchen is almost empty and the landlord is bothering us every day. We have been and will continue to be looking for work during this process. Thank you for your time and patience with us! Here is another cat photo for compensation. His name is Big Fat and he is my ally.

[therepudiatedimmortals]

you cant consent if you have a crush on someone cause of the imbalance of having feelings

[astrangerlately]

[sibarikupuame]

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--viscera

[nyancrimew]

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[tpwrtrmnky]

If the real-world treatment of trans women by the healthcare system was invented for a work of fiction, it would instantly read as an absurdist satire of all the issues with cis women's healthcare. yeah you can get a vagina but only if the doctor thinks he'd want to fuck it afterwards.

[maidthings]

if trans women are only welcomed to sports on the condition of mediocrity then we arent welcome to sports

[maidthings]

at some point people lost the plot and went from "trans women have no unfair biological advantage in sports, and attempts to paint the situation otherwise are clearly a fig leaf for transmisogynistic discrimination" to "trans women actually never win at sports they're weak and unthreatening and won't take away medals from AFAB athletes"

[maidthings]

There's a common pattern to any transmisogynistic harassment of athletes, where people well say "Oh they only performed middlingly. why are people so upset" which not only implies that this harassment would be justified if she had won, but also misunderstands the reason the harassment happens in the first place: that a trans woman was placed higher than any cis woman in any context at all

[json-derulo]

"you were always such a good kid! we never had to worry about you :)" thanks! you actually should've, though. like about this specifically

[closet-keys]

"biological" really just means "state enforced" at this point

"what is your state enforced sex?" "there are two state enforced genders" "use state enforced pronouns to identify students" "transition is against your body's state enforced purpose"

[capnsoapy]

When some TERFs started saying "biological name" (instead of "deadname") it really said this out loud.