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Cake day: November 24th, 2024

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  • personally? bad eye contact. accidentally using innuendos because there’s 80 million of them and I forgot to consider one of them when I was speaking. not catching somebody’s meaning when they hid it in an innocuous statement. severe irritability in the cold or around loud continuous noise. overstepping a social boundary and abruptly withdrawing half an hour late when it dawns on me what I did. having no boundaries to other people because I’m trying to be personable and blend in when I don’t.

    all together that sounds pretty obvious but it never happens all at once. if I’ve gotten enough sleep then I will mask most of it, whether I want to or not







  • there’s a conversation here to have about curing mental illness or even how we conceive of mental illness. above commenter is skipping some steps and I hope you won’t hold it against them. basically, it’s should we be looking at altering the way someone is born before we alter the material conditions of our society that are causing them pain.

    it’s probably better to examine and ask people with Downs instead of just assuming. they have more of a voice and things to say on the matter than we currently want to hear because we automatically see their existence as a heinous burden. while that isn’t exactly fascism, it is kind of a dick move.

    not the guy you were replying to, I just thought I could translate their intention.








  • my super-ignorant American take:

    Pakistan, really really hates India. I hope it can be healed but I don’t know enough to dare saying how. Poor but admirable aspirations at space exploration. Zealous about parenting and proud of their culture. Probably more similar to my own background than a lot of people would feel comfortable admitting.

    Qatar, rich from oil deals with America. Corrupt but it’s our fault for lavishing them while we raped the rest of the middle east for plunder. Intolerant but could probably be won over to be less outwardly hateful of new ideas since they’ve tasted wealth and desire to join the international community. The things that their religion makes them hate tend to be things that most other Abrahamic religions also hate, which could be grounds for friendship? I don’t think it works like that but it’s fun to joke.

    Americans are pretty racist but these two nationalities get less hate than others. Or would if American’s bothered to learn the difference. Most of us can’t point to Qatar on a map. I hope this was amusing to read.