Mastodawn

Hospice worker passionately debunks the myth that childfree people will ‘die alone’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/hospice-worker-debunks-myth-that-childfree-people-die-alone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hospice-worker-debunks-myth-that-childfree-people-die-alone

DJ Toebeans Apr 9

I think it's time for a #reintroduction post. I've been on Mastodon since 2024 and hanging out at The Mended Drum for over a year, and I'm doing a bit of remodeling on my feed. I'd love to make some new friends, and I would also appreciate any hashtag recommendations to follow!

I'm a cis woman of the Oregon Trail Generation living in #Raleigh, #NC, US. Currently a freelance proofreader specializing in deposition transcripts. I'm (lazy) #plantbased, unattached, #nonreligious, sober-ish, and #childfree.

Likes: #reading, #concerts, #animals (especially #cats), #photography, glamping, dragons, spreadsheets, pockets, bubbles, word games/puzzles, #solarpunk, #sustainability, a little light yoga, and the Oxford comma.

Dislikes: patriarchy, bigotry, billionaires, cars, fossil fuels, ads, #misophonia, #perimenopause, summer, basketball (see: misophonia), cooking, running, clothes shopping, phone calls, and glitter.

I'll expound on some of my favorite authors, artists, genres, and titles in a thread.

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Weary Wulf Apr 8

[P] I think it's callous to bring a child into this cruelty. Thanks to monsters, ours is a dying world, and a cruel one. Everything is worse for each new generation. As it stands, without extreme population degrowth? There is no future. It'll only get worse. How could one look at such a cruel, dying world and think "Gosh, what a perfect environment for a child!" without being a monster?

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #science #childfree #overpopulation #overshoot

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Weary Wulf Apr 8

[P] Further, greed invites thoughts of legacy snd the indentured servitude of the child. It's laughable to say that this isn't a consideration in the mind of every parent. "Who'll look after me when I'm old? Who'll look after my vocation and legacy?" The child is seen as a play for quasi-immortality, and a carer bound by ball-wnd-chain in blood. If the child were thoight of first? One just wouldn't.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #science #childfree #overpopulation #overshoot

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Weary Wulf Apr 8

[P] "Why shouldn't I breed if others do? In this future, we'll just keep taking from others to support MY child." It's a feedback loop beteeen the monstrous traits and the procreational instinct. "What care I of the turgid circumstance of tomorrow when my child is todsy?" It carries that essence of a puppy being for life, not just for Christmas—a point which many humans fail at aswell.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #science #childfree #overpopulation #overshoot

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Weary Wulf Apr 8

[P] I can see how the instinct to procreate could be well served by the monstrous traits of greed, tribalism, and empathy deficit. Greed empowers the procreational instinct, to spread genes, to be a parent. Tribalism empowers the act, as the desire is to create more of us than there is of them (white replacement, et al). And empathy deficit means one doesn't give to much care to the future.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #science #childfree #overpopulation #overshoot

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Weary Wulf Apr 8

[P] I'm curious about the intersection of the normalised monster traits of humanity and breeding. To begin, the world is clearly overpopulated, claiming otherwise is spreading wealthy whitey billionaire propaganda.

https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-population-has-surpassed-the-planets-capacity-study-suggests

The earth IS grossly overpopulated. This is science fact. So why is it denied? Why is the propaganda believed? I want to examine that a little bit.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #science #childfree #overpopulation #overshoot

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