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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 5h

I think maybe sometimes I'm too old for stories about teenagers because it's understandable that they're going to be ridiculous.

Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 15h

Also the plot is dumb. What do you mean you missed some freshmen credits so you need another semester and it's going to cost 20K?

This happened to me and I just took online courses at Community college and finished. And that was almost 20 years ago.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 17h

Probably read the book that show is based on I think it's a series

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 18h

Watching The Summer I Turned Pretty, and is this just a story about the two most obnoxious people alive being assholes to everyone, and that means they're meant for each other?

Fuck them kids

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 1d

and it mimizes the actual pain & loss while projecting onto a future that is a fantasy.

It's really okay to just deal with the fact that something is sad and bad and allow it to be that. Face the reality along with the person going through it and allow them to grieve the things they are grieving.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 1d

Best case scenario if somehow the science magically moves forward fast enough and it gets approved to be done on people You're usually looking at at least decades of lost if it happens within your lifetime

"Technology will change" is an awful response because it's not even remotely sure to be true

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 1d

So we really hate it when people say stuff like that to us.

First of all most of the time it's not true. Science is developing relatively quickly but in terms of medical strides things still go through decades of testing before they are brought to the general public. We lose things. It's real.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 2d

Aw, I don't think I'm worthy of all that, but it was really nice to hear. I badly want to be a good friend despite having so many limitations & barriers to providing community support to people I love.

It meant a lot to discover that ppl enjoy me when I can't do anything for them.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 2d

It's tough. But the last time she said it to me, I was in my late 30's and I just started laughing.

In a funny way it was nice to find out that the awful voice inside my head wasn't even my own voice. It was just hers. And she can't talk to me anymore.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 2d

despite everything I know to be true, it still has its claws in me. I think it's really tough with something that dug its way into your brain when you were so young you weren't really capable of critical thinking.

All the facts & logic in the world can't beat back a ghost. It was never truth at all

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. I've done a lot of work in that area but it is sort of like original sin. It's this foundational thing that I'm constantly trying to get over, reframe, or outrun

Logically I know even she didn't believe that. She just said it to be cruel, crush my spirit, & control me

But somehow, emotionally

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 2d

I feel so out of sorts all the time. Anxious when I never used to be anxious. Worried people won't want to hang out because I'm not normal, or anything resembling normal.

My mom would always say to me "No one likes you, no one loves you".

I believed her. It defined me.

She was wrong.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 2d

I played a game with my roommates tonight & one pulled a card that asked her to tell her first impression of someone in the room.

She said to me "Everyone likes you. My friend you called one time for a roommate reference still asks about you"

😭😭😭

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 3d

Me too. Well I mean you can see the results of the disability (We spending 10 years in the fetal position in bed) But if you aren't looking very closely the signs of the illness itself are not something the average person would clock

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah read it of all places seems to be the most invested in keeping blocked people from returning to the platform. Which is wild

Imagine if Twitter cared about Nazis and actually banned people in the same manner Reddit uses as far back as it's invention around 2008 or 9

Mighta been real different

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 3d

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately I'm not talking about messing up, I'm talking about my physical inability as a disabled person to write by hand anymore

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 3d

but always, because the grief rears its head every time you go to do something you can no longer do, and you remember what it was like when you could.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. I feel seen by this comment. People are often quick to offer what they feel is a "solve" But sometimes you just lose things and they remain lost to you. And things are just harder and different now and you grieve your own body forever. Not always as intensely or always in the same way,

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 3d

I'd be so much better at Spanish if I could just use my damn hands. Writing by hand has always been key for memorization for me. I can often remember something after writing it down only once. Word memorization is easy as pie, but also grammar rules and conjugation.

But I can't write. Not anymore.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 3d

They track your IP address and even if you have a VPN they can still keep you blocked. They also track your speech patterns and what forms you use so if you try to go back to the same places they can recognize you if you sound like yourself.

It's pretty crazy

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 4d

100.

The public conversation about pedophilia has reached a fever pitch, yet somehow white men still get no jail time for raping children as young as five.

Because they don't care about pedophiles. They care that people want to murder pedophiles, so they'll put that label on trans ppl

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like if she wasn't so concerned with staying on top constantly and let herself take a breath, edit herself, and only put out her best songs on fewer albums, she might actually make some good stuff.

Instead she just sort of dumps out everything she writes into a notebook these days. No edit

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. I have long believed that she has a very natural talent for writing hooks and pop songwriting. She has had that skill since she was a teenager and it is a natural gift many adults never have.

But truly her greatest skill by far is her marketing and always has been.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 4d

grounded to reality. Because the entire machine around them and most of the people in it are there to get something out of them and there is a lack of authenticity.

I feel like under a microscope like that it's got to be really hard to know if your own work is any good or not.

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