#where’s 👏 that 👏 life 👏 changing 👏 field 👏 trip

You don’t say.

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.

2019 is the year we stop patronizing regular people for evolving on an issue and start supporting their glow up

We don’t make change by making fun of people. The more we all try to “win” in these situations, the more we all lose.

An unexpected, important, and welcome ally!!!

@1dietcokeinacan VERY good news

it’s not hard to incorporate they/them pronouns into a fantasy world some of y’all are just cowards 

it’s not hard to incorporate they/them pronouns into any setting some of y'all are just cowards

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excellent addition yes

He’s right

I was always what everyone else needed me to be. Now I’m who I need myself to be.

Uh..

Someone please explain wtf with wrong with all the animal faces in the Mowgli thing on Netflix?  Trying to put human features on them makes it SUPER uncanny fucking valley and nightmare fuel.  

THIS IS NOT HOW YOU CAT THIS IS

2016 movie looked so much better…what happened!? Sorry, I’m browsing netflix and everytime that trailer comes out, I twitch.

I just… all i can think of… is…

tonight before you go to bed I want you to think about one reason of why you’re excited to get up tomorrow, when you reblog this post say your reason

I get to spend the day with my parents! I don’t get to see them a lot as I am in college.

Carol:

Me:

klaus after helping five at the prosthetics office:

Five:

When you screw up something small and your anxiety doesn't let you forget it all day

DON’T FORGET TO FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM

all day?  Try for a month.

Remembers and suffers 5 or more years later

God Dammit anxiety Ò•Ó

Ummm how about a decade?

5 year old me: Does something stupid. Current me, a 19 year old teenager/legal adult: *eternally screams internally*

34 year old me: *tries to sleep*

34 year old me’s brain: remember when you were in 2nd grade and you told your teacher that her nose had the same shape as your grandma’s

34 year old me: this is why I drink

I still think about stupid shit from my childhood and cry still

I did something stupid in kindergarten, and every other grade, and at work a few years ago. I still remember them all.

damn, i feel all these in my bones

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