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Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

I'm laughing so hard at what my Mom just said to me, while asking her if she's still up for sharing her lived experiences from just after we fled Saigon, to two refugee camps, to being sponsored by a Canadian group of church folks to adjusting to life in Canada, in first few years.

Mom said: I remember that you pooped a lot....a lot more than your little brothers. Your Dad called you a toddler shit factory. We'd be rich, if we could have sold your Saigon baby Buddha poop.
What?!? 🤣😂😅 My parents actually discussed this, in depth, before fleeing Saigon.

#AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsians #Vietnam #BoatPeople #AsianDiaspora #Displacement #WarSurvivorsForPeace

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

I told my Mom that I'm making myself a new tshirt that says: Toddler Poop Factory 1975 & putting my parents names on the back with, born by: their names 😂✌️
Mom's like - I will literally kill you, while you're sleeping, if you do that!
Me: No, you won't because you cry when a single bee is dying! You're not that murderous.
Mom: You little shit!
Me: I am your little shit 😀

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

Hey, parents of young, neurodiverse kids! Your ND kid may grow up like me too. It's both a blessing & a curse, depending on how you nurture your child 💗✌️😊

My parents nurtured my natural weirdness. I'd probably not still be here - had they listened to folks who told them that having a disabled child is a lifelong curse & to murder me - if they wanted a more bountiful life. My parents would never have killed me. They both loved me, their 1st born child, immensely. My parents saved me from being sacrificed, despite having been the fatty Saigon Buddha baby - once I was struck with polio - my parents found out, the hard way - most people won't support parents of disabled kids.

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

My parents told me about families who did have their disabled kids murdered to lessen weight on family. I met some of those people in the 90s...it was not a good reunion experience.

mānas 🤎 🇵🇸Mar 15

@PhoenixSerenity

Savarna families with caste privilege and insufficient lack of melanin are taking the route of dehumanizing unwanted dark-skinned children through regular, repeated traumatization which the racist, colorist, classist, ableist, casteist medical systems will gleefully diagnose as disabled without carrying out any basic due diligence. These fake "disabled" and unwanted offspring can then be turned into a possession of death, which they will then milk like a precious cow forever.

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

I was literally my parents' miracle child. Mom was so stressed out that she had a miscarriage before me & 4 doctors told her that she is unable to give birth to any healthy child again. Those doctors were wrong. My brothers were both born with zero delivery issues & both grew up very strong/healthy. Only I was stricken with polio & then paralyzed for life from polio. I currently live with post polio, scoliosis & osteoporosis - still living life as passionately as possible.

I still support mandatory vaccinations, globally.
You can ask me why & I'll tell you, honestly & openly.

#AsianMastodon #PeopleWithDisabilities

Eric Lawton Mar 15

@PhoenixSerenity

I was baptized at birth because I was not expected to live more than a few days.

I was in hospital a lot in the 1950s.

I knew several kids with polio, including some in iron lungs. We got to know each other well because of spending weeks in the same ward of 20 kids.

I had some now-preventable illnesses myself: measles, mumps, whooping cough, chickenpox.

I'm with you all the way on vaccinations.

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@EricLawton People in Vietnam were given a total of 50 iron lung medical equipment/per big hospitals. Most of the poorest couldn't afford to pay for that.
So, we lost close to a million people who had no extra medical help. When I tell people in Canada, these horrendous facts - they're quick on trying to shift subjects. Which tells me -> they don't give a fuck about us.

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@EricLawton Things ran very differently in Global South areas, at same time & past it.

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@EricLawton I'm sympathetic to what you've endured. That said - I don't want people who have never faced rampant carpet bombs to ever compare their lives to ours. It is not even close to comparable. There's many other ways to express dissent with US, without putting yourself on same levels with people who have been bombed & lost a lot of our family members from #TerroristUSA invaders, bombing us.

Please don't do that kind of comparison on my posts, again. Thanks.

Eric Lawton Mar 15

@PhoenixSerenity
Okay

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@EricLawton We were deprived of necessary public health needs. We were so dehumanized by USA & all their Western bully pals. We were treated like terrorists.

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@EricLawton Thank you.

エラン履恵 • Elán Rie 💉x9 Mar 15

@PhoenixSerenity Antivaccination is antilife, period.
So glad you were able to grow up strong and loved with supportive parents

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@niji_limbo I was blessed with a weird Dad & he loved me so much - he fought hard to save my life when many people in District 5 community told him to kill me, to save the family. I'm so glad that my parents fought back & refused to murder me!

エラン履恵 • Elán Rie 💉x9 Mar 15

@PhoenixSerenity Me too!

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@niji_limbo I have living, extended family members in Canada who are willing to pay for people to kill me. Straight up. They've told me that too. They're really rich in money now & think they can threaten me with zero pushback. They're wrong.

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@niji_limbo Ask one of my sellout younger cousins, who works for #BCNDP - how many times her tires have been slashed? I don't care if you're blood related, if you choose to work for my enemy -> the government - you're up for facing consequences of that cowardly job choice.

#BCpol #CDNpol #CoreValues #NoPasaran

エラン履恵 • Elán Rie 💉x9 Mar 15

@PhoenixSerenity Good grief! That's so much 😭

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@niji_limbo Yeah, it really is. That's why I'm usually very aggressive to people like that. I'm not wanting to give any more push space.

@PhoenixSerenity Yup, my parents lost a few friends when I came along and it took years for the rest of the relatives to acknowledge my existence. It's definitely a thing.

May Likes Toronto Mar 15

@mcourcel @PhoenixSerenity And look at you now. You both turned out great.

Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

@mayintoronto @mcourcel Genes definitely mattered with overcoming.

@PhoenixSerenity @mayintoronto And parents that believed in us.