I often wonder, people who are still masking diligently in 2024 to avoid a neurodegenerative virus, what they were like as toddlers.. because the amount of fortitude necessary in a world that has decided to move on… there surely must be interesting backstories
If people dare say to me “still masking huh” my saccharine sweet yet simultaneously deadpan response is, I’ve read too much
Patience of an actual saint; all of us🖤
@aquasscum 🥂🥂🖤
for me stubborn & unmovable if I know I’m right
My stepmom blamed me for breaking a navigating pool cleaner when it was my psycho 1/2 bro did it. We were about 6 & 4
When he got home late from a business trip from🇰🇷 got yanked unceremoniously out of bed & spanked w/an antique stamp block b/c I wouldn’t admit to doing it. Still recall the bruises & I refused to admit it. My dad beat us all equally so didn’t harbor resentment altho my siblings on the other hand..
Sorry about the brain injury:(
Brain is remarkable in ability to heal.. if you keep it free of a psychotic virus🌈
I was a loud, obstinate toddler who distrusted people. I experienced chronic pain from infancy that went unaddressed into my adulthood. My partner was a quiet, kind, and obedient kid who learned to distrust people as he got older, in part because of aggressive ableism as he suffered medical conditions.
We both learned through our lives that you cannot trust others to do anything for someone's when it's not socially convenient.
So we ignore complaints about our masks.
@Lorrrraaaaine ah, and our child is extremely opinionated/stubborn. She was born that way.
She diligently masks up because we have been *nowhere* in public the several years where there hasn't been a coughing or vomiting child unless there were no other children.
Our area didn't go on lockdowns. Vaccinations are unpopular. Masks were widely shunned from the beginning. So many people have died locally that services everywhere have been reduced.
She doesn't want to be "normal" (ill).
@shadowsminder
Oh how naturally wise you were as a toddler🖤
I was quite opposite & trusted the wrong people which followed me far into adulthood. Luckily it’s all sorted out:)
I’m glad to know you guys exist
I just found out about a ridiculous movie the other day called Idiocracy & it’s nice to know the premise isn’t going to happen b/c there are smart people out there with kids 🌈🌈
Stubborn, sleepless, refusing to be touched and constantly crying.
So, about like I am now.
@Lorrrraaaaine Well, I'll tell you a story. When I was a toddler, my mum was invited to bring me to a dress-up party at a convent where she worked as a cleaner. She had quite a fight to get me into a rabbit costume that I rejected because it was too big. When we arrived at the venue, a nun was playing the piano and children in costumes were dancing or skipping in a circle.
No way was I going to "join in". I wasn't going to be one of those ridiculously childish children! I flatly refused and I'm pretty sure mum took me straight home again.
From that day to this(I'm 72) if I didn't want to join in, you couldn't make me. Party games, team building activities at work, I would feign some kind of injury or pretend I wasn't there.
I've had ME/CFS for 30 years and there is no way I want to go through all that again with long covid. My wish to live is much stronger than any desire to be like other people.
That's who I am.
@anne_twain
🖤🖤 what an image 🖤
& a fantastic story🌈🌈
So sorry about having to worry about ME/CFS for the past 3 decades:( That cannot be easy
It’s a constant thought these days for me every time I am forced to confront🚫😷 masses, but these people have no clue what they are bringing upon themselves w/this foolish & selfish behavior💔
Taking us down w/them though.. this song comes to mind😂
@Lemniscate
omg so brilliant!
good for you; hot dogs, especially Oscar Meyer Weiner are an absolute horror for one’s health. The sodium & chemicals you avoided, priceless.
Our adverts over the past bunch of decades is an anthropologist’s dream probably
If only people could stay kid like pre-brat stage… there’s always an outlier but for the most part, before age 8, most are okay
@Lorrrraaaaine Nobody comments negatively on my elastomeric FloMask, but I got one wisecrack once on my P100 (there's your white dude privilege in action, hey?).
I missed the opportunity to come back with "I'm a COVID harms researcher working with the University of Toronto on a risk model for COVID exposure at the workplace."
@Wikisteff
Oh that’s the greatest comeback😂 Should it happen again, now you know🖤🖤
If everyone were educated on the harms & there was more mask usage, I wouldn’t be forced into practically dressing like a BSL4 worker
Had a woman stop me in the street asking if I was wearing a fencing helmet.. which reminded me of Victorian women fencing pics; great aesthetic but too much white clothes
It’s only ever cool black people that approach me. The whites, Asians & others just gawk
May not be a white dude,but I compensate:)
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