Because Ivy

A deep dive into the mind of a non-neurotypical 7th grader who is smarter, funnier, and cooler than you.

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Ivy: My brain is snakes, optimism, and friends.

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@djchan08 I'm going to need you to recreate this painting with your infant and send it to me thx

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Frog CPR is now camp legend, and the camp nurse told me I was "severely blessed" to have Ivy. Accurate.

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Camp update: "On the way to the showers I accidentally stepped on a frog, so I did CPR on it and it worked. Don't worry, I didn't do the mouth-to-mouth thing, I just tapped his chest."

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"I'm going to invent a show called 'Our Flag Means Cat. It's about cats that are pirates. Do you think anybody would watch it?"

I think *everybody* watch it. #OurFlagMeansDeath

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"The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I?"
"Eating shrimp or other crustaceans."
"I...yes. Why not."

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Ivy asked me to tell her riddles. Somehow, she has not gotten a single answer from the list but managed to get them right in very weird ways. #becauseivy

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"The one who makes it doesn't need it, the one who needs it doesn't feel it see it. What is it?"
"Your name."
"Um...a coffin but also yes?"

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Ivy went to her first school dance last night. She had fun sitting outside and texting my friends. To be fair most of them like her better anyway.

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(Reading Don Quixote for school)
They call him Donkey Hotay because he was as stupid as a donkey. #becauseivy #donquixote

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It's cookie season, and Ivy has blessed us with another on-brand surrealist video. https://t.co/bqZws31aDr #girlscoutcookies #thefoodnottheotherkind

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I figured out how to have a good life! Eat and make friends.

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@zeke_buck It's a custard.

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I can forgive but I won't forget. #PettyTuesday

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(Watching Labyrinth)

You know, for how they usually make enemies look, The Goblin King doesn't look half bad.

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Baby Yoda will say his second word first.

(That took a while to land.)

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Happy anniversary to the best thing that ever happened to this world: the Disappointed Pancake.

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@LinhMaria Guess what, you're a C-B now.

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I'm having trouble breathing because my stomach is so full of hot dogs that there's no room for my lungs.