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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This might be the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet, I’m neither a father nor am I trans, but the acceptance and kindness here is giving me stage 4 lumpy throat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's what it's all about, really. You do the best you can to be supportive, while knowing you'll fuck up occasionally, and because you're genuinely trying, it either doesn't hurt, or it hurts less.

At this point in my life, I've had three people in my life transition. Well, three people I was close enough to, to be involved in their process fairly deeply. I've known more tr ans people, but wasn't involved enough in the process to matter.

It isn't easy to shift your brain. You build up literal paths in the brain associating a given set of words with a given person, so you have to unlearn those while learning the new associations. That gets harder as you get older too. Well, it has for me, and it seems to for others.

But putting that effort in is what matters. It isn't that much to ask at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There’s no instruction manual for raising a human, so when I hear a dad ask the baker for cupcakes that look “kinda gay”, it’s cool. He’s a little confused, but he got the spirit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thats honestly so fucking cute 😂 I want my dad to ask the baker for "kinda gay" cupcakes lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

get off the computer for fuck's sake

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does the recycling bin have any particular meaning?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not even recycling if they didn't separate the glass/plastic from the paper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Imagine still having to hand sort recycling

  • this comment was made my mixed recycling gang.