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@Heucuva8

The worst part of having a child is the pain you feel when you can't provide everything they need, much less a reasonable portion of what they want.

That answer on Reddit? They should never have kids. Their resentment would be impossible to hide. A child who is meant to feel like a burden will wear chains their entire life, hesitant to ask for what they need, to live their truth, to promote their ideas.

โ€œIf my children areย autisticย or mentally ill or both, I donโ€™t want them to grow up in a world where their humanity is questioned every single day, or where police brutality based on their disability status could end their lives.โ€

โ€”All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism

For more quotes on neurodivergence, disability, and policing:

The Cult of Compliance and the Policing of the Norm

stimpunks.org/policing/

In case you didnโ€™t know, rats laugh when tickled!
time.com/4566126/rats-laughter

โ€œ Gentler tickling did not elicit the laughter, but chasing games didโ€”similar to the way small children start giggling anticipatorily when playful parents chase them around the house and make it clear that a tickling session will be the price for getting caught.โ€
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I thought I had a good grasp of what it meant to be an interabled couple until I really began digging into all the ways that love and can combine in a romantic relationship. Here's what I've discovered so far and how it's shifted my thinking.

athenacreative.substack.com/p/

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Genesis ๐ŸŒโ˜•๐Ÿ’™

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.