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The monsters are real, and they are
us60 kilobeesThat is a very young age to experience not being believed by parents. The poor kid, I hope she’s not traumatised. It’s surprising the things that can mark us.
I’m one of those kids. Either we’re over explaining people pleasers or the trauma turned us into monsters.
I think I know what you mean. That inner flurry can have a silent persistence that pushes us one way or the other, but doesn’t let us rest. Have you found anything that helps?
Not yet :(
Forgive me for offering unsolicited advice, but one-to-one therapy with a psychodynamic trained (or other modality) can really help.
In parallel, meditation can help to overcome a certain amount of the uncomfortable feelings. I can share an inspiring documentary with you.
Please share the documentary.
Here you go https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkxSyv5R1sg&ra=m
It was seeing this that showed me how meditation helps even the mosts hardened of people. This method is also free to learn and free to attend worldwide.
Not everyone can tolerate the stillness of meditating. But besides the exceptions, it has helped a lot of people. If you’ve any questions afterwards I’ll do my best to answer.
Thank you!
Well, children aren’t very good at telling the difference between real and fantasy. At least I’m fairly sure my nephew isn’t actually Iron Man. Believing everything they say would be gullible at best, stupid at worst. And seriously, this won’t be traumatizing because adults didn’t believe the kid.
Neither of us can say that for sure because we don’t have the necessary details. Internalisation is no myth, and it’s very hard to work with when kids are pre-verbal or have low vocabulary. There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.
There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.
But there’s this other book that says to ignore them and beat them when they’re too annoying to ignore. It’s called the bibble or something. Jeezus wrote it.
Wah? Who’s this Jeezus person? Must’ve known my parents because… well I just want to smack 'em upside the head.
I think kids usually start speaking earlier than that.
Not enough to diagnose their inner state with a standard therapist.
N=1 and all, but my son was quite capable of explaining, clearly and in detail, his inner life at three. He’s on the spectrum and highly intelligent, so that may make him an outlier.
(Both sons did fall for me calling saffron “monkey fur” well into grade school though.)
It’s crazy that insurance didn’t pay for it because they deemed it “preventable”.
That’s why every day I just go and give the tree leaning over my deck a good shove.
The HoA says it’s fine, so I have a document proving this tree that isn’t mine is “ok” and someone else is gonna pay when it falls.
Meanwhile … every day just a little shove to help it along.
I just had wasps burrow their way into the side of my house and chew down through the ceiling of my first floor bathroom. That very particular and unnerving scratching noise is fucking burned into my brain.
This happened to me when I was about 10. My parents were getting the house renovated and I kept telling them about this noise in ny bedroom. They got one of the contractors to open a little hole and suddenly bees everywhere. That did not help with my fear of bees.
Why does everything cost 20k in the US Do most people make a million per year lol
Salaries in the USA are traditionally much higher than in other countries.
We also tend to pay less taxes.
Then we pay a fuck ton for everything else AND we’re like the cutting room floor for shitty capitalist policies that will be shipped over to yall in a decade or so.
That said a nearly 200k/yr salary on the coasts can leave you still struggling to make ends meet whereas 50k in the flyovers can have you sitting happy.
The USA is made up of so many little economies that show up to be one one big economy.
You’re thinking of mean average salaries. A greater percentage of Americans make minimum wage (or less) than Canadians, and Canadian minimum wage is higher.
There are a small group of rich people offsetting this notion of “Americans get less public services because they make sooo much more money”
1% of Americans make min wage compared to 9% of Canadians.
No, I’m thinking of salaries for comparable roles.
I’m not really making any statement about the vast wealth inequality in the USA, beyond pointing out that 200k on the coasts can be scraping by while a quarter of that in the “heartland” can be comfortable.
I didnt push the notion that we get less because we make more, we get less … we also make more … they are not related excepting to pull down what “we make more” means.
Well, building materials are expensive for one. Like, I had to have my roof replaced in the last year or two, and it was $6k, and they only ripped and replaced the plywood, barrier and shingles. They didn’t have to worry about cleaning out organic matter, structural issues involved with opening up a wall and removing shit, or the complications of dealing with utilities in wall.
When you factor all the potential issues in, especially if it was a large infestation, costs can add up quickly.
maybe she should have said it was 60000 bees then?
Maybe she should have said it was a $20,000 bill.
Paying $20,000? I’ll take my chances with the bees.
You can have an actual monster removed for that kind of money
I dontnhave any VEOs living in my walls though
33¢ per bee is crazy.
Who’s their bee guy, amirite?
Back in the day it used to only be 5¢ per bee
AND they let you keep the honey.
$3 per bee
$3 per bee
More like $1 per 3 bees.
yeah
Still quite expensive.
yeah inflation is rough man. I remember when you could get 8 or 9 bees per dollar
Back then, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter”, you’d say.
They’re in the walls… oh god… they’re in the walls!
Kiddo, this is good news! We can finally be bees!
I once bought a mousetrap with my pocket money and caught the mouse, my parents didn’t believe was in my bedroom.
The other option was a data centre next door.
I used to hear scratching in my bedroom walls at night when I was a kid.
My dad said it was probably red squirrels but to me, it was demons trying to claw their way through a portal.
Rip and tear little one
Well? Which was it??
