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Talking back

Parents shouldn’t reprimand their autistic kids for ‘talking back’ when being told off. Usually it means that the child is asking for clarification of an instruction. I always ask for clarification to check I’m understanding correctly, and if anything, it shows that I’m listening and I want to improve. 

If you don’t know what I mean, here’s an example.

Child: (says something)

Parent: Stop being so snarky.

Child: Could you explain what it was that made you think I was being snarky?

Parent: Don’t talk back to me.

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shadowwolf

Actually, just don’t tell kids off for “talking back”, like, in general. Never in my life have I seen an adult say this to a child who was legitimately doing something wrong. It’s always either:

A: The above scenario.

Or

B: The adult was in the wrong in the first place and the “talking back” was just the kid calling the adult out on their shitty behaviour.

Scolding kids for “talking back” just teaches them they’re not allowed to defend themselves and that they should just accept any punishment they’re given even if they don’t know why they’re being punished. It’s just another way of saying “I’m the adult, so I’m right and you’re wrong”.

“talking back” is what you call “disagreeing” when you think the person doing it doesn’t have rights.

I mean literally it’s called “talking back”. As in I talk to you and then you talk back to me. It’s literally just adults being mad at the idea of a child getting the final word.

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wombshaker

I don’t understand why y’all still feel the need to use the R-word in 2018, especially when our language has evolved to the point where we have much more accurate and concise words for what you’re attempting to express. Stop being lazy and disrespectful and phase that shit out of your vocabulary. It’s really not that hard.

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gothicprep

asking for straight pride is like asking for able bodied parking spaces

thats a really good comparison because there are about seventy able bodied parking spaces to one disabled and able bodied people still insist on using the ones that arent theirs

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chaseross

this is seriously a great post 

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So I’m on a trip with my robotics team and there’s only two “girls” (me, an enby, and a cis girl), so we get our own beds in our own room, but the guys are rooming four to a room, but there’s only two beds in each room. Which means that two guys are sleeping on the floor every night.

I’m not joking. They were literally arguing over who’s sleeping on the floor tonight (apparently they plan on rotating).

And I asked them “why don’t you just share a bed?” And they all gave me the same answer:

“No, that’s weird! That’d be gay!”

And I just looked at them and I decided to break the bad news to them

“If lying next to another guy makes you wanna suck dick, you already wanted to suck dick.”

I’ve never seen so many Straight Guys™️ enraged by a single sentence before

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tree4life25

This is the best thing I’ve ever read in my life.

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Hi brain, you obstinate fucker. I drank the clear splashy stuff. I ate the green things. I went under that bright fucker up there. I did the thing with the moving and sweating and whatnot. Now make the happy chemical, you lump of fuck.

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cadaverkeys

no offence but i am literally filled with anger every time i remember there are legitimately people who are rich enough to buy half the globe and then some but the poor are dying because wages will not adapt to inflation and the super-rich refuse to part with any amount of their wealth.

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Yknow what’s worse than shaming girls into shaving off body hair?

Shaming girls who choose to shave their body hair anyways.

Who cares if someone would rather have a hairy leg than spend 20 minutes shaving? Who cares if someone would rather shave and have smooth underarms? Who gives an honest fuCK??

Let girls do what they want to their own bodies 2k18

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orarewedancy

So I work at a video game store in a mall and across the hall from us is this really nice suit shop. One day one of the guys came in an asked if they could use our microwave (the store they used to go to closed down) and we bargined for use of their bathroom in return since the mall bathrooms are like a 5 min trek.

So for like three months now we just have these men in really nice suits come in and talk while using our microwave and teach them about nerdy shit? Then I, the goblin king in various shitty tee shirts and paint stained pants, walk into their super expensive store and just get greeted with “Yo dude what’s good?” and talk about the pains of steaming silken dress shirts properly and it’s my favorite business interaction every day

A new jewelry store opened up right next to our store and when I used the bathroom today we were talking about it. I hate it on principle (they flooded our systems closet during building) and immediately both Suit Guys™ working went on mini rants. “Their suits are baggy as hell, I wouldn’t trust them to sell me a $9,000 ring when they can’t get a fitted jacket. They look so unprofessional, ” and “I saw one of the dude’s wearing a teal shirt. It’s fall, and you go with teal? At least get a color to match your store if you’re gonna ignore the seasons like that, Christ, but teal is awful.”

I live for this commentary fam.

I told the guys (Teal Man is Spencer and Baggy-Suits Guy is Arnold) that this post got this popular and they’re both super excited.

Arnold: “Sweet, we’re internet famous!”

Spencer: “131,000?!”

Arnold: “What are notes? What does that mean, is that good?”

Arnold bargined that if it gets more notes, I can A: post a pic of them crouching with peace signs in front of the Notorious Jewelry Store and B: post the video of him long boarding down to Macy’s and back lmaoooo

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