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7:00 A.M. // 9:00 P.M.

““You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.” - John Green (Turtles All the Way Down)”

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in bed with the windows open while rain falls is the nicest feeling

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Iron Man (2008) | Iron Man 2 (2010) | Iron Man 3 (2013) | Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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I want to tell him he’s a good boy so much…………

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Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

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They do actually!

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I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

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Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.”

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

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These are cool things to maybe consider when writing a character with these disabilities!!

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There is just something about this trope that tugs at my heart strings.

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I’ve figured out that one way to stump older people that complain about the current generation is to have an inflation calculator app on your phone.

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Aunt: When we got our first apartment it was 300 bucks a month why can’t you-

Me: In what year?

Aunt: What?

Me: What year did you get your first apartment?

Aunt: 1973?

Me: Hmmm. Looks like that would be $1755 in 2021 money.

Aunt: *seems to go through seven emotions at once*

Aunt: Oh.

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Uncle: Why should minimum wage-

Me: What year did you start college?

Uncle: 1968?

Me: So if you scale up $1.60 to 2021 dollars that would be $11.94 and the current federal minimum wage is $7.25

Uncle: Bu-

Me: And it seems like from a quick google search the median rent in 1970 was $108 and today that would be $722 but this same chart tells me that the actual median rent in 2020 was $1,100.

Uncle: *confused silence*