(hi! mimi here!)

[stardust_rifle]

we're unpacking the trauma back closet and it's pretty impressive how many of our Issues can be traced back to "the only reason they bully you is because they want to get a reaction out of you" being parroted at me by every single authority figure in my life

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[palominocorn]

Hi Mimi! I can definitely relate, and it's awful. "It's literally part of my job to make sure these youth treat each other okay, but I don't wanna do it so I'll just tell them it's their responsibility to not be such appealing targets for bullying." Bleeeeeeh.

[stardust_rifle]

"but actually doing my job is haaaaarrrddd!!! i don't want to unpack my beliefs about what kinds of kids 'need' to be corrected!!!! can't i just look at them and go 'hey stop being such a fucking sperg'???!!!!" /s

- a surprisingly large chunk of schoolteachers.

(also!!! hi back!)

[palominocorn]

And then they wonder why damn near every developmentally disabled adult has trauma! Wait no, they don't, they don't care. :')

[feotakahari]

“Don’t react, so that way they’ll bully someone else instead” is the same “logic” as “don’t dress like a slut, so that way they’ll rape someone else instead.”