I never considered my neurodivergence to be a disability until I became a parent
And I lost access to vast amounts of alone time...which was my load bearing coping skill
Moms on their phone: making a doctor’s appointment, sending pics to the grandmas, writing an email to an accountant, organising logistics for a visiting relative, tracking a package that was meant to arrive but didn’t, ordering things for the household because she doesn’t have time to go physically shop, looking up how to remove a particular type of stain, looking up recipes for dinner with some ingredients she doesn’t know what to do with
Onlookers: “look at her scrolling on her phone, neglecting her family”
There’s a big disconnect between parents and non parents about what it’s actually like to have a child because the hardships are describable but the joy is not.
Something I’ll never understand about this era — people will burn down relationships with real life friends or family members…for a politician? Or a podcaster? Someone they’ve never met and who doesn’t care about them at all and they’ll toss real friends away.
Saw someone say “you don’t get to starve a child of love and emotional safety for decades and then demand intimacy as an adult. You raised distance. Now sit with it.” AND I FELT THAT BIH
Trump just said what I said Friday: the other side never claps for the other team, advertising to the world that the state of our nation is HOPELESSLY DIVIDED.
@mercernole2021@pennyelizabeths@Utterly_Jean I have worked in pharmacy for 20 years. Every year insurance decreases reimbursement rates to pharmacies. We actually LOSE money on some. This is why pharmacies have been forced to cut staff.
someone once told me “emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough to understand it before you hand it to someone else” and that honestly changed how i move.
This man nails it
“If you want to know if you're a real activist or a fake activist, just do this little test right here and ask yourself this:
If ICE was deporting MAGA people, would you be protesting in the streets or celebrating in the streets? Would you be saying they're targeting US citizens who pay their taxes and not breaking any laws? Or would you be saying bye?
If MAGA people were stalking, harassing, intimidating and assaulting federal law enforcement, would you still be calling them protesters? Or would you be calling them agitators, provocateurs, criminals and terrorists?
If you think a 115-pound unarmed woman jumping through a window deserved to be shot, but not a woman driving a 2,000-pound weapon into an officer, congratulations. You're a fake activist.”
These people do not process that this man woke up and intentionally dressed like a militia movie character and intentionally armed himself and intentionally went to a federal operation and intentionally interfered with it and intentionally resisted arrest and intentionally pulled his gun. Leftists cannot comprehend agency and therefore believe instead that he literally spawned on the sidewalk and through a series of fascist coincidences he was executed for exercising his constitutional right to do whatever he wants without consequences
@DefiantLs As a mother, my babies are fucking more important than your babies. That’s the order of things. And your babies should be more important to you than mine are, there’s a place for compassion but you don’t starve your children so someone else’s don’t go hungry.