like i assure you, you can 100% feel awkward around kids and not know what to do because you haven’t been socialised in spaces where you learned how to properly care for and deal with children without saying “ew i hate them”. just say you’re not comfortable around them because you don’t know what to do, that’s a valid feeling that a lot of people share. don’t say you HATE them bc u don’t know how to handle yourself and therefore project your insecurities on them. like they aren’t the vessels for your feelings of inadequacy, they aren’t a blank canvas to project your issues on. they’re innocent.
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Not to get political but my philosophy is fundamentally that all people should suffer less. That it’s everyone’s responsibility to try to make the world a little better for everyone else. And anyone trying to do the opposite is an asshole who needs to stop.
obama’s wife was disrespected, his daughters were disrespected, HE was disrespected but he never resorted to acting like 5 year old on social media and to the press
shoutout to all my insanely talented people forced to put their passion on the back burner to work bullshit jobs in order to support themselves
AUDIOBOOKS ARE ACTUAL BOOKS. THEY ARE BOOKS. THEY COUNT.
literally by googling you’ll find tons of studies backing up that not only does our brains do the exact same thing via listening to a book as they do via reading once you are past a fifth grade reading comprehension, but some people (i’m one of em!) actually retain information and comprehend literature better by listening to it. i’m able to imagine what’s happening in the book in a way i never could with text.
then there’s the disability benefits! i sometimes have muscle strain so bad in my eyes that i cannot read text, and if i try i will either fall asleep right away or i will throw up or get a migraine or a weird combo of puke, migraine, sleep. this is due to a chronic condition i have. audiobooks have been the only way i can read for the past week. i’ve averaged a book a day, though, because audiobooks exist!
so don’t @ me about how they don’t count and aren’t real books thanks
Also some of us are busy as hell and can make time for 10X more books if we can multitask while listening to audiobooks. Anything that lets more people have access to more books is a good thing!
