When : person A and person B are coworkers, or family, or otherwise established with each other. Person A asks me directly to do something. I have no reason not to, so I comply. Person B then comes up to me, IRATE, does not just ask me why I did such a thing, but lectures and belittles me and my judgment as well. Person A does not step up, and if I "throw person A under the bus" then person B doubles down on why I still shouldn't be doing it.
This has happened to me since I was a child. I am now 37, and ultimately just don't give a fuck if someone asks me to do anything weird unless it's in fucking writing. I'm so pissed off even writing this AAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK YOU SHAUNA
Tbf, where and when I grew up (USA, 1980s-1990s), it seems like at least 90% of people taking pictures said "ok everybody say cheese!", including school photographers/sears photographers etc. I think it was so common because they were limited takes of tangible negatives, so "say cheese!" improved the chances of getting a smiling picture
She looks identical to my senior girl Wicket. She's 20! And very pampered. I don't know what you call this coloration (SIC/TUX?) but they are always such incredible kitties.
Also, Vivek Ramaswamy has talked about raising the voting age to 25 unless you serve in the military. Which is in effort to keep young people (especially Swifties!) from voting Democrat.
No matter what, if you love somebody, tell them as often as you can. Say it every time you say goodbye. Don't let someone walk away when you've both said nasty, hurtful things. If you are putting off seeing someone, or calling someone, just do it.
You cant take ANY of that back. And you'll never forgive yourself.
I was kidnapped in the night and taken to one of these in 2002. My mom finally figured out how awful it was after 14 months and came to get me.
The school convinces the parents to not believe any bad things their kids might sneak through on one of their once-a-week call privileges, and they also make older students sit in the phone room and listen to the phone calls in case they need to cut you off.
If you're being punished for anything (which is basically solitary confinement in public- you are limited to a booth 16 hours a day and nobody can talk to you unless they're assigned to bring you homework from the school you're forcefully missing) you also lose your rights to talk to your parents.
Further, there are a series of brainwashing events called propheets (some overnight or multi days long) that convince a LOT of students that they very very very much deserved to be taken away and that they must essentially repent and accept the program to "heal". It was really upsetting to see kids who ordinarily struggled socially to 100% immediately fall im line and then become hall-monitor manipulative snitches.
I'm trying not to really get going about it bc I think the comic covers a lot of it, but only some of the kids come from rich families (and they're ordinarily just spoiled, nothing more). Most of us learned that our parents mortgaged their houses or took out other high high interest loans. So, that got thrown in your face too "you're such a piece of shit person that your own parents had to almost lose your house!"
And yeah they'd get in your face and scream as loud as adult men could scream until you'd break the fuck down and weep and scream as well.
I wish more parents would have been vocal when their kids told them the truth. They could've spared more families the trauma.
My school was in Idaho, where parents could petition for custody until their kids turned 19, so there were fucking ADULTS there that couldn't leave without being tracked down and physically (violently) brought back and then put immediately "on a booth".
Two of my friends I made there killed themselves not long after release.
Same here for most of the above, but I would like to suggest something I do often with random obligatory attendances. Every time you're bored at the party, say your tummy is acting strange. Free pass to go to the bathroom to fuck around on your phone whenever you want. Nobody wants to talk about yr poops.
You might owe your partner an explanation, but you can follow your heart on that.
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When : person A and person B are coworkers, or family, or otherwise established with each other. Person A asks me directly to do something. I have no reason not to, so I comply. Person B then comes up to me, IRATE, does not just ask me why I did such a thing, but lectures and belittles me and my judgment as well. Person A does not step up, and if I "throw person A under the bus" then person B doubles down on why I still shouldn't be doing it.
This has happened to me since I was a child. I am now 37, and ultimately just don't give a fuck if someone asks me to do anything weird unless it's in fucking writing. I'm so pissed off even writing this AAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK YOU SHAUNA