[ophelia-is-not-okay]

done healing my inner child. next up is my inner teen. her highness demands a sword.

[cannibalchicken]

[paverics]

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

[paverics]

comedians can only dream of writing something this funny

[innerchildabortionclinic]

you can acknowledge children are at a more vulnerable stage developmentally while still believing they deserve autonomy.

this is also how you can differentiate youth liberation from encouraging predatory behavior. yes, there's a lot of misinformation on development, such as the 'frontal lobe fully develops at 25' thing, that doesn't mean a 25 year old and a 5 year old are in the same place developmentally. I will raise an eyebrow at anyone who is very insistent that young children and adults are identical. I don't even understand how you could unironically believe this (that is, without ulterior motives) when developmental trauma exists and presents the way it does.

young children are not identical to adults, and this does not mean they deserve to be treated as a lesser form of human, if anything it means we should be more careful in how we approach their needs.

[catspores]

as a child who'd been like. Adultified by the adults around me for being "so mature for my age" (not speaking up when i needed/wanted anything, being smarter than my peers despite developmental issues) Yeah people DO NOT need to be fucking treating children like adults. the person that most frequently told me i was So Mature was my emotionally incestuous mom who constantly tries to use me for her own comfort/gain. its a form of grooming to talk to children like that

however, yes, children deserve the same human rights as adults. children deserve to be treated with respect, humanity, and kindness and patience. they should not be treated as on the level of a peer as an adult, but they should be treated with the same respect you would treat a peer. just because children should be treated as Their Age doesn't mean they should be dehumanized or have their autonomy stripped away

[innerchildabortionclinic]

yeah there's something to be said about how society actually praises what is often developmentally inappropriate maturity from children because it's more "obedient".

[siegecraft]

i know it's hard. but i so firmly believe the strongest antidote to loneliness is reaching out first. and continuing to reach out. again and again and again. excise any scrap of shame you hold about being the person who texts first or pitches the plan or asks to get lunch. everyone is tired and busy and struggling. and afraid of feeling unwanted and unimportant. don't let the people you love feel that way. reach out first. don't be a ghost in your own life.

[meanbuddhist]

just identified a behavioral pattern within myself

[healingsuggestions]

time heals a whole lot and today is better than two years ago

[miiilowo]

having feelings that contradict your morals is soooo fucking annnoooooyyyiiingggggg. can the emotions and logic department get on the same page im tired of having to like strangle myself into being a tolerable person

[trans4trains]

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

happy decade to the horrible beast i have wrought

[badassdemonsword]

You couldnt come up with a jollier name for a bird if you tried

[minmos]

this thang has one of my favorite ebird descriptions of all time

[loveridden1999]

[thememedaddy]

[endlace]

You if bugs didn't exist

[m0nk3y-bl0g]

[oated]

blue-haired liberal sounds like the name of a delicate endangered species of bird

[punkedupfae]

Alright ive seen enough

Someone put a blanket over my cage.

[vehder]

i miss u so much (pre ai internet)

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[leebrontide]

I’ve never seen a kid struggle with the concepts of someone being gay, trans, or nonbinary.

I did once have to explain to an almost 3 year old why a chihuahua wasn’t a cat and let me tell you THAT was a struggle and the kid was very mad about it.

[fancyladssnacks]

@asynca I am deceased at your tag

[guerrillatech]