volvoxvsmarla

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Bottom left is the Trump shooter, bottom right the alleged Kirk shooter. No clue who the upper left dude is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The articles on that are a fascinating read, thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You live in Germany don’t you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats, you perfectly missed the point of the message you replied to.

  Maybe your nephew gets the iPad all the time and that messed up his frustration tolerance. Ok. You might have a closer inside to how he is parented. When you see someone outside with a kid on an iPad you cannot know these things about them. Whatever it looks like to you, you’re judging strangers based on a one point observation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this sounds very “duh” but I had an epiphany when I realized that the reason I hated advice and tips for parenting was that I didn’t see my kid as a child, I saw her as a person. And just like I would be offended if my partner took some rando’s advice on “women” to deal with me, I get subconsciously defensive when my daughter is treated like a kid that comes with a handbook. There are 5 ticks for this behavior in this age and one of them will work. Fuck that. It doesn’t and it doesn’t need to and it shouldn’t be expected to. She’s an individual, there is no manual for that.

  She’s turning 4 soon btw - and I love her to bits with her chaotic insanity. I feel as if it’s not like she doesn’t fit into a box or likes to think outside the box - she just dismantles the box, it is non-existent to her. She is actually very social, popular and follows rules well in kindergarten. Despite her answer to that theory of mind question about where the doll is being “there’s multiple dolls” which spins into a Lynchian tale about parallel dolls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not stealing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the dick punch was really unnecessary but I am glad that other families experience… Weirdness, I guess. And exclusion of a parent.

  I can’t count how often I read and heard the advice to “just present your kid with two options to choose from”.

  My kid, even before she became verbal, always wanted option C when presented with two options.

  “Do you want this hat or this cap?” “Neither”

  “Do you want this blue pants or these red sweatpants?” “I want… a green… dress” we don’t even have a green dress.

  “Shall we go to the zoo today or do you want to go to the playground with Anna?” “I want to go on the trampoline” .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Rocks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an anecdote: When I studied abroad, I met a guy who was in his master’s program for psychology, and he wasn’t convinced that phobias were a real thing and not something else. Some day, we tried to get home to the dorm through the rain in the dark, and he eventually ended up carrying me home. Before we said good night, he told me that he now has finally seen someone with a phobia, and now believes they are a real thing.

  I am actually scared of all wormy creatures, ie long, no vertebrate, no legs or more than 10. That also means I am scared of bugs and flies, not because I am scared of them - I am scared of their kids. (I haven’t taken the trash out in 8 years or so.)

  And to me it makes only sense. I cannot understand how others aren’t scared to death. I cannot explain what it is, I can tell you this: it is not just disgust. It is not just their form or smth. It’s a genuine fear. I get tense just writing about this. I would never do therapy because to me the thought of being ok with it is not appealing. I don’t want to be ok with it. Fuck that. Y’all should do therapy to realize that you’re crazy for being ok with it. (I’m joking, I know that’s wrong, but this is 100% how it feels.) I would rather chop off my arm than touch it. I would, and I mean this, rather let my mother die, than touch it. I regularly reevaluate these statements and they are still true.

  I am fine with snakes and spiders tho lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Rocks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in Germany so they are even in cities :(

  Yeah the soil thing is difficult for me. I just wish there was a healthy world without any kind of ~ thing. I love the idea of gardening, planting my own food and stuff, but it takes about 20 minutes in nature for me to realize that is a fantasy self. I like nature, I just don’t want to be around it. At all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Rocks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that can be less of a wonder and more of a curse. I have a very huge phobia of earthworms, and I can see them very well. People who know me well go outside and are like “it’s all clear, I checked!” and then I go outside and I see them everywhere.

  I also get “Oh just don’t look down” by people who I tell this to all the time. Like, sure, stepping on that will totally be ok as long as I don’t see it? That’s not how this works.

  Same goes for these stupid tiny green caterpillars hanging from trees. You wear hats to protect yourself from the sun. I wear them as head condoms against these fuckers. But the truth is I see them from miles away. Miss me with that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused, this isn’t loss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf is ur problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you just assume all dinosaurs tasted the same? Or are you asking about a specific dinosaur species?