Suggestions For Gender Neutral Version Of Mom/dad? Something Less Formal Than Just ‘parent’

we all know about the adhd hyper fixations that make you do one thing and one thing only for 3 days straight only for you to drink a sip of water and your brain's goes "nah, ion wike it anymore :("

but how about when you really wanna do something and you're so excited and then you start doing that thing but after literally 3 seconds of doing it it becomes so overwhelmingly boring that you... stop?

"Villain era," I hiccup between sobs as I'm forced to assert basic boundaries for my mental well being.

You know I had to do it to em

This was on a post discussing shit parents doing a new satanic panic. Valid points all around but. But I’m crying. This is the funniest lie ever, no parody I could come up with this will be this funny. Nonbinary Julius Cesar

Expecting Neurodivegents to work by Neurotypicals' methods is like pressing Windows shortcuts on a Macbook.

This is not like a fully completed thought but yk

So I've done my first aid + CPR a few times. And every single time I try and bring up scenarios for fat folks

Specifically like 'what if someone is too large for me to wrap my arms around then to do the heimleich'

And its incredibly rare I get a decent answer.

How absolutely insane is it that me, as a fat person, is asking how to have MY life saved or to save ANOTHER life, is an impossible feat if someone is fat.

Most of the time they tell me to 'just try anyways uwu'

There has got to be a better option.

A few days ago I came across a video that really resonated with me and I can’t find it but what was said is stuck in my head.

“My whole personality was being smart and then one day I wasn’t ”

I was always just the smart and nerdy kid and after the pandemic, and everything else that happened to me, I ended up failing exam after exam. And with that title of smart being gone I’ve come to realise I never developed an actual personality.

My classmate said that blind people can't be in science because they "can't read graphs." I responded with "disabled people can be scientists, besides that's what alt text is for." She replied with "well, okay, but they can't be in forestry [our field], that would be too hard for a disabled person." I then countered with the fact that I am disabled and am succeeding (and while I didn't point it out, I am receiving higher grades than she is, and I have had to tutor her). She said that it's different for me, and when I asked how so, she didn't reply.

Disabled scientists exist and we are successful!

HEARTBREAKING: Poor girl has to get out of the soft warm bed even though she is so so so so comfy