Guess that must make me someone the Wall People approve of then? Omfg it’s crazy I constantly just have random kids come up to me and just chill with me. Just randomly at Doctor’s offices, grocery stores, waiting outside my kids’ schools, sitting at the park, basically anywhere. It’s like that scene in the Santa Clause where Scott’s just starting to turn and kids start coming up to him to tell him what they want for Christmas just… obviously less exaggerated.

It gets awkward sometimes because I’m 6’2” tall, built like a fridge cosplaying Bigfoot, and look *very* male. Despite being nonbinary and asexual, I’m very aware that I look exactly like the kind of person that people think shouldn’t be around children. I dreamed of going into like childcare for a career, even had a little baby doll I’d take care of while my Mom took care of my baby brother doing things I couldn’t help her with.

But between my Dad “not wanting (me) to grow up to be some kind of f(slur),” and thus getting rid of the doll the first chance he could, and learning *very* quickly the hostility the world has to amab people caring for young kids, I didn’t have that career ambition for long.