Mastodawn

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.

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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 😀

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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 💗✌️😊

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Ms. Que Banh Mar 15

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.

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Ms. Que Banh

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.

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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.