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This is a glorious save. Well done.

A dear friend of mine was complaining about Greta back when she was still a kid, saying what right does a kid have to complain to nations? I huffed. I pointed out she has more right than any of us- the most of her years are ahead of her. She can't control what world she inherits, only the people she's screaming at can do anything.

Back in the 90s, when I realized what shape things were in then, my adults just told me to shut up. They said they didn't care. Greta had supporting players who let her express herself on these, the things that matter. I wish we had more kids whose parents let them address the world like this. It's going to be theirs. They should have a say in what it looks like.

Also those new movies were a lot more fun than they had any right to be.

I have sensory stuff but I always love having a really thin or lightweight wrap on, since I overheat easily and can take it off and put it on.

Which I do! Often!

I haven't, either. And I have looked. We're all working from incomplete information. All I know is, a man hits me, a middle aged woman, I can't just hit him back and expect to save myself. I'm gonna have to do something drastic.

I cannot describe to you my reaction when he told me that story. It's been 10 years and I'm still stunned.

"Dong" being penis made this even funnier.

"You can show your dong to kids, but heaven help you if you teach them about marijuana!"

There should absolutely be prostate cancer awareness!

If you're interested, there's some fascinating psychological work done on people like me who were kids living near and in OKC at the time. Not surprisingly, kids who were allowed to watch the live footage of the news that day tended to have higher incidences of PTSD and anxiety disorders as they grow up!

I recommend to anyone (who wasn't living there at the time) to check out the Memorial. It's absolutely gorgeous. But they play news footage from KFOR that we all watched on TV and that is... stressful!

It just occurred to me I should write this down somewhere for posterity...

I completely agree! Words have power!

If I see that sort of thing, I try and correct it. Gently. It never feels good when you get hit with a generalization meant for someone else, but especially when you dislike that generalization, too.

I still argue, especially when my ADHD meds wear off, and my impulse control goes out the window, but we can all at least try to be better to one another.

"Punching someone in the head can be just as fatal as stabbing."

I'm genuinely surprised people don't know this.

Oof. I lived in OKC when that happened.

I don't support the death penalty, but that made me come real close.