When you say you’re the victim of abuse you are supposed to, by the common understanding, be able to bring up very specific episodes of that abuse in order to “prove its really abuse”.
But a lot of abuse just doesn’t work that way.
Sometimes they just wore you down constantly. Sometimes you couldn’t put your finger on it, but felt all of effects none-the-less. Sometimes its so plain awful that you’ve repressed it. Sometimes it was so damn insidious that you normalized it until one day years later you mention it and someone gives you a look of shock and you realize it wasn’t normal.
All of you. Any of you.
You are all just as valid as someone who wrote a whole damn memoir on the thing.
The stories coming out of this post are absolutely heartbreaking.
There’s a website where you can learn ASL on your own and it is free and the woman on there, her name is Rochelle Barlow, she runs the site and she actually is a homeschool teacher and teaches ASL. I am passing this on to you guys cause most people on here is open-minded. Well, whoever of y’all reads this will possibly ignore this but if you are a curious george like me and wants to learn ASL she’s your gal.
Rochelle has a free program called Learn ASL in 31 days, currently I am on day 10ish or 12, (idk I’m on learning my numbers currently) but I believe this site will help people that are either curious about ASL and just wants to learn, or actually is Deaf but can’t afford to going to actual class or something, or just hard of hearing.
I am truly in love with learning with Rochelle, she isn’t those interpreters that will talk while she signs, (and I’ve searched through Youtube how to sign but the person talking will distract me and I would get confused) and it is all in video which is a good thing. I found her through Youtube, that’s where she has all her videos. Just check out her site. You’ll like it.
remember when u used to go over to ur friends house and youd go down to the ‘computer room’ to the dads old shitty desktop computer and sit on the giant black leather computer chair and ur friend would show u charlie the unicorn and epic rap battles of history type stuff on youtube while thier younger siblings bugged you for a turn to use the computer
shoutout to all those folks who were about to identify with this post and then suddenly felt super old
shoutout to the computer room dwellers glued to pre-internet computers
shoutout to misspent youth wasted on Zork and Kings Quest and Commander Keen
shoutout to that friend with Wolfenstein and Leisure Suit Larry
shoutout to coupler modems and MUDs and usenet
shoutout to beige computers and particle board “computer desks” and 3.5 floppies and 5.25 floppies and color monitors
shoutout to the dawn of the information age, which you spent mostly just playing Lemmings or shouting down the hallway “DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE!”
do you ever stop and think how strange it is that we just…let people have kids? like, whenever they want? with no training?
you have to take lessons and pass a test before you can drive a car. it’s a fairly simple process but if you do it wrong, you can cause injury or even death. raising a child is, i imagine, a bit more difficult than driving a car. shouldn’t we give out Parent Licenses?
A person who works with children, I agree with all of this.
I might agree with this if I didn’t know how mysteeeeriously much harder it would be for “undesirables” to get one.
