movie theater tickets being $18-$20 is insane btw. when i was in high school, they’d be $10 on the weekends and $7.50 for a weekday matinee. this is why kids don’t *do* anything anymore.
they’ve been priced out of everything except being at home.
my mom started volunteering with autistic children and annoyed one nonverbal student so bad that he literally spoke for the very first time in his life to tell her to shut up