r/TraumatizeThemBack - Uno Reverse Homophobia 🌈💀 

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The whole "adhd as a crutch" argument is just like telling someone with glasses that they're cheating to get super vision or telling someone in a wheel chair to stop being lazy and walk.

"[X] is just a crutch!" Yes. Yes it is. And a crutch is something that some people OBJECTIVELY NEED in order to move around.

I’m Christian. When someone asks if I found Jesus, I want to reply, “I didn’t know he was missing.” A pagan friend, when her grandmother asked about her relationship with Jesus, replied, “I don’t know what you’ve heard but we met briefly at a party but nothing else happened. I don’t know who keeps spreading those silly rumors.” 😂🤣😂

13:06 "So youre just fine with being a virgin forever?" has GOT to be one of the biggest projections of the dudes own insecurities he could have possibly made.

The best response to "Maybe you haven't met the right person yet" I have heard it's "Have you ever wanted to duck a Cactus? No? Maybe you haven't met the right Cactus yet"

Utah has set up a tipline to report trans people for using “The wrong bathroom”. Yes, you can attach images. Definitely don’t find it and spam it with memes and “other” images.

I'm the person who mailed the 'cursed doll' to my kiddo. I was so happy when I heard my story being read out by The Click, & even happier that I made him laugh. Today is a good day. I live with kiddo now & the porch pirates are starting up again. I'm thinking about recreating 'The Package' with the addition of a geotracker so if it gets returned I can keep returning the doll to them to really drive the point home.

If someone had made that rohypnol "joke" at my workplace, I would have made sure I knew their name, the name of the person they were talking to, the name of their supervisor, and gone immediately to HR to file a complaint about sexism, a hostile work environment, and fear for my own safety in working along side someone has such a casual, and possibly positive opinion of substances used for "date-r***", as these could also be used in the workplace where people share coffee pots and often leave drinks at their workplace while completing tasks away from their desks.

what part of drugging someone against there will isn't forced? my mind boggles at the mental gymnastics of others.

I once heard a comment that still makes me giggle. “My Dad always looks at me and says ‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ and I still maintain that it’s the weirdest way to find out you’re adopted.”

Babyklappen (babyhatches) are like a small door (sometimes a drawer like hatch) you can open to place your baby in a safe warm place anonymously. So mothers who want to keep it a secret can give away their babys without the need to throw them in a dumpster or put them on some stairs. The babies are safe and warm and the baby hatches normally give a signal to the next hospital. They are found in germany at hospitals but sometimes also at churches, fire departments and even police stations. They are meant to keep the baby safe while the mother will be anonymous the mothers won't throw them away where the baby will die. Probably one of the best things invented in the last 30 years.

Grannies are supposed to be supportive? My grandma was a verbal assassin. One time my office had a Valentines day event and gave everyone a piece of pink construction paper to make a valentine with. I made an anatomical heart. I used the pink of the paper for my mid tones, markers for the darker colors and white pen for the highlights. It was GORGEOUS. I showed it to my grandmother and she, the verbal assassin, said, and I quote: "Can't you make a pretty one?" It still hurts.

"How do you know you're ace if you never did the deed?" How do you know you don't like hugging cactus if you never tried it? Go ahead, hug the cactus! Or better yet, shove it up somewhere.

Bigotry is a lifestyle choice. We have to think about the children because we live in really dangerous times.

The sex ed class story is me! Thanks for featuring my story haha, I didn’t think it would be cool enough to be featured in a click video. Last I checked with younger siblings, she’s done traumatising the students in SPHE, and now teaches the class with minimal mention of sex besides the necessary. At least there’s no more homophobic bullshit

I love the Porch Pirate post, like instead of something simple like a glitter explosion, OP decided to make a package that was supposedly cursed with messages in several languages, and it successfully stopped the pirating. Faking a curse to scare away people, I love it

7:42 the analogy is even worse, because literal crutches also exist to help people with medical conditions get through life more easily. They exist to create "equal footing." (Puns fully intended)

Regarding the bullies: It's a US thing. In most schools, the policy is to punish everyone involved in an altercation, no matter who is at fault. Supposedly, it's to deter it from happening at all. As a side benefit, the school doesn't need to do any due diligence to determine who's at fault!

My own personal TraumatizeThemBack story is from when I was a freshman in high school...a 13yr old goth girl with undiagnosed ASD and resting murder-face for reference😅 I was in the middle of the cafeteria when one of the popular girls in my grade turned to me and loudly asked whether I was a virgin or not, to which I replied (after blandly staring at her for so long she started looking visibly uncomfortable) "How about instead of playing 'Piss Off the Goth', how about we play 'Kill the Munchkin'?", and to this day I have never seen a white girl go so pale so quick as I did that day😂 Our next period was English and Shortie (this girl's legitimate nickname given the fact she was all of 4'9") immediately ran to tell our English teacher what I had said (with no mention of her own provocation)...our teacher literally laughed in Shortie's face and told her that's what she gets for picking a fight outside her weight class 🤣 good thing I had already enamored myself to all my teachers as their most diligent student so they knew I only "sharpened my talons on my victims" (a word-for-word quote from my Math teacher) when provoked 😈

"What's in your pants?" "Epipen, hair tie, fountain pen, handkerchief... You?"

I have a magnet that says, “I found Jesus, he was behind the couch the whole time” 😂😂😂

I got tired of people asking me (homosexual male) if I thought they were attractive or if I'm sure I'm gay or what or how do I know I'm gay, so I just now started going: "why? you interested?"

ADHD isnt a crutch, trust me. I left my debit card at the petrol station yeaterday, and now someone is on a fast food spree on my dime... it is a curse 90% of the time, and a blessing on trivia night

Hell yeah! Once when I was in high school a group of girls kept bullied me and asking weird questions about me being bi such as 'how do you do it with a girl?', I honestly didn't know because I was innocent then. I was annoyed and merely said: "Why, wanna do it you creep?" Really loudly and clearly. Everyone ignored them for the next few weeks and it was GREAT.

The fact that she has a diagnosis to the condition she is suffering from means it’s a medical condition

As a teacher from Europe, I'm terrified of American public education. Kids are *shocker* just smaller humans and have bodily functions. When we have a test week, we have hallway surveillance to keep an eye on the hallway and bathrooms to make sure ALL kids can go to the bathroom without issues. What a weird thing to happen, wtf.

For the ace person getting punished, it seemed more like a punishment for screaming next to the chickens who probably got scared, since the punishment was just to not sit with the chickens for some time. If the screaming happened somewhere else, with no chickens to scare, they might not have gotten punished

8:49 Hey, just a reminder to anyone who sees this: A teacher, substitute or not, who refuses to let you do something clearly stated in your accommodations, is not just an asshole; they are *LITERALLY BREAKING THE LAW* I don’t remember for sure what specific type of law it is, but I’m *pretty* sure it’s federal law. So yeah, if a teacher doesn’t let you use your accommodations, at the very least report them to their boss (and make sure to point out in the conversation that not allowing you your accommodations is illegal).

6:40 a personal favorite dark humor joke of mine goes, "What is a reverse exorcism", "It's when the demon tells the priest to get out of the child"

If a teacher won't let you go to the bathroom, just go anyway. What is she gonna do, tackle you?

"May you perpetually step on legos barefoot in the dark." ... damn.

One of my favorite stories involving a baby was from a friend of mine. It was shortly after she had the baby, first time taking him out of the house. She was in Walmart buying things, and of course, every random person is obsessing about the baby. She's frustrated by the endless questions, and had finally had enough. Near the end of the shopping trip, a kid (could be young teen, could be younger, she didn't remember) looks in the stroller and sees the covered up little bundle and was like "Is that a baby?" And my friend was like "No, it's a Velociraptor." Kid goes "Really" Friend "Yep, careful, he bites." And at that exact moment, her baby grunts and stretches a little. Kid apparently ran off screaming.

The "piss girl" one is both heroic and absolutely horrendous. I'm glad the teacher got fired. It reminded me of a stunt like this when I was in highschool, we had a bio teacher who was... Let's say it was the first teacher I actually got into arguments with because she is a moron. One day, a classmate wanted to pee, and the teacher would not want to let her go. The classmate insisted, teacher got angry, classmate said "okay, I'll pee on the floor then" and actually started to get up like she would do it x') Teacher let her go. Because we were petty fucks, an other classmate said he also wanted to pee, teacher slammed her hand on the desk (she liked to do that), and said something along the lines of "you'll go pee when you're green in the face bc you can't keep it in anymore!" (translated, we're French). The guy said with an exquisite poker face "I'm black, you couldn't tell if I turned green, that's racist" 😂 That was a fun day

If you have enough arguments with yourself in the shower, eventually you might come up with enough comebacks to use one at the right moment in real life. It's just argument training.

The 'as a crutch' comment just reminded me that when I told my mother my doctor was recommending I look into getting a wheelchair, she said she didn't want me to as it'd be a crutch....I pointed out I cannot walk without crutches and the pressure was destroying my shoulders hence wheelchair. Like, wtf??

The "Why are you wearing a mask" people are so obnoxious. It's all freedom and personal choices until someone makes a different choice than they would themselves.

Click reminds me of that vine "What have you got there?" "A knife!" "No!"

SWORD PLUSHIE WHEN ???? EMOTIONAL SUPPORT DEMON WITH SWORD ????? MANGO WITH SWORD ????

In regards to the story at 37:07, OP actually made a genius choice in making a fake cursed doll, the reason having to do with criminal psychology (for the record, I am *not* a psychologist). Criminals are commonly (not always) cowardly and superstitious, due to being aware that what they're doing is illegal and wrong. They're utterly *terrified* by the thought of suffering consequences for their actions, such as getting caught, facing legal punishment or, in OP's case, becoming cursed. Even though they weren't aware of how well thought out their plan actually was initially, it's nice to see that it still worked-

The emotion you describe, of realising just too late what the perfect response to someone would have been, has a name in French. It's called "l'esprit de l'escalier" - literally "staircase wit", because it comes into your head just as you're going downstairs from that dazzling occasion in the grand hotel or wherever.

I was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD when I was very young and struggled through school and university. My parents didn't tell me until I was out of college for the same "use it as a crutch"

In America you get into trouble for retaliating. You can bully someone, and it's ok. You just can't defend yourself. Its sadly why we have so many school problems.

Thanks to Click and OT, I got to do a mini 'traumatize then back' a couple years ago An older dude I was working with (mid 20s to my then 17) was making small talk while we were in the same area - when I told him I was gay, he stated "how do you know you dont like guys if youve never been with one, ive dated plenty of women who told me they were lesbians" - thanks to Click and OT, I was armed and ready - "you do you know you don't like guys if you've never been with one" - he got flustered and tried to argue how 'that was different' and how 'women like to use being lesbian as an excuse' or something - also tried to argue being gay/trans was a trauma response😒 According to my friends, he was flirting with me prior to this, but I tend to be super oblivious to flirting from anyone - mans was apparently AP/IB graduate (harder versions of classes) and I was currently working towards getting my IB diploma so I thought we could talk smart (in my IB classes, the few guys had little to no toxic masculinity and could engage in convos around sexuality like a normal person so I wasn't expecting that comment to traumatize lmao) Mans was not ready for the convos or AFAB nonbinary or asexuality if he panics about having weird comments thrown back at him

Yes! I love this stories. My responses to acephobes are a mix of "have you tried [insert horizontal tango of AS's oposite sexuality]?" to "do you want to hug a cactus? how are you so sure you don't want to hug a cactus if you haven't tried?" and the last resort "why are you so obsessed with people's personal life? that's creeps behaviour". Only if the person refuses to learn or keeps up with the questioning.

America sounds horrific. What kind of country doesn't allow children access to a toilet without a special medical pass?

Them: How do you know you don't like sex if you've never had it? Me: Well, I've never been stabbed before, but I'm 100% certain I wouldn't like it.

Okay, as a Christian, I LOVE the sense of humour of the "friendly neighbourhood cripple." I also really love that the lady eventually found it funny.

2:40 I have a theory about people who push boundaries, but are cowards when push comes to shove. They are the human equivalent of the little tiny yappy dogs. The ones that will run right up to bark, pester, and bite at a bigger dog. The second the big dog even moves a paw, they run and yelp in terror. I'd wager they have about the same level of intelligence as well.

Re: getting in trouble for defending yourself, yeah here in the states you're literally not allowed to defend yourself against bullies. I distinctly remember the school resource officer (in the states, schools have a police officer on grounds at all times) having a talk with students about how "there's no such thing as 'self defense'". I remember because as someone who's been bullied all my life, it made me LIVID.

this is why i'm gonna teach my daughter 'you DO NOT ASK to go to the bathroom, if you have to go you raise your hand and TELL the teacher you ARE GOING to the bathroom, and get up and leave if the teachers want to throw a baby raging hissy fit we will back you always' obv teach her not to abuse it just to get out of class, and only do so to go to the bathroom and return asap but yeah no one is gonna tell my kid they cant use the bathroom

"Why are you wearing a mask." So the criminals I put away don't know my identity.

The girl who wet herself during the test reminds me of elementary school me- When I was little, I couldn't hold it because I was prone to chronic UTIs that were debilitatingly painful. I had to stay home for days and do my schoolwork at home because of how painful it was. I could hardly get up to eat most days when I had them. My mother refused to acknowledge that this was a severe condition, and so she dealt with it on her own and never took me to a doctor. According to her, her home remedy of making me chug cranberry juice and getting up to use the restroom every 15 minutes worked just fine. I only had it checked out when I was taken out of her custody and had to see a doctor for a mandated health exam. I no longer struggle with that problem. Anyway. Many teachers I had didn't believe me when I said I couldn't hold it, and as a result I'd end up wetting myself in class. Every time this happened, I'd go straight to the nurse's office, but the principal would have me sit in his office on a plastic chair and eat my lunch early while my parents were called so I didn't have to feel embarrassed with other kids seeing me sitting in my own piss. Eventually, the principal just wrote up his own condition for me that I could go to the bathroom every hour regardless of who else was in there or if I had a pass to avoid this happening at all. Thanks to his actions as well, I wasn't bullied outside of first grade and my chronic UTIs weren't as frequent anymore. I ended up doing better in school (especially 3rd and 4th grade) because I wasn't missing entire weeks of class due to the painful UTIs. Even though I didn't have medical notice giving me those accommodations, the principal was an amazing man who stepped up and made a terrible situation so much more tolerable.

TW for R*pe: I was r*ped at the age of 4. I didn't know what was happening so I just went along with it because I trusted adults, so it 'technically' wasn't forced. So that man, would he consider my experience to be r*pe? Or was it not because my r*pist didn't technically force me to do anything? I'm glad that he was taught a lesson, but it sickens me that people like this exist in the world that like to invalidate people's experiences that they don't know the slightest thing about.

I am jealous about that sword, I want one and not my wooden knife that i coloured myself when I was younger

Yeah. I have friends who have had autism and ADHD and anxiety, depression, a whole buttload of things that vary between friends be hidden from them for YEARS. One of my old friends a while back had autism for SEVEN YEARS before being told. Their father forced their mom not to say anything because he would he "labeled autistic." They were also diagnosed with anxiety at 7 but it was hidden from medical files because it would "make them anxious." His dad also cut off their hair because it was an "unattractive texture for a lady" (it was curly.) The panic attacks and breakdowns my friend Elijah had were UNREAL. All of this because "it would be too stressful" or "the label is stupid" or some bs like that.

my mum never told me i had autism, I only started seeing signs at age 16-17, told her I think I might be autistic (I think that's how it went down) and she just said that I was diagnosed at age 6, I'm 18 now other possible way I found out was I was making a list of disorders I have and asked her what I have-

The ADHD story reminded me of my own experience with autism. The doctor said that he thinks I have it at an appointment when I was around two years old, and my dad strongly fought against it with the doctor. His reasoning? I was able to emotionally connect with people. Me being able to have a meaningful relationship with someone was the sole reason that, to this day, my dad doubted I had autism, even when i was diagnosed AGAIN at 17. And this is a man who usually does his research on things, so I was flabbergasted.

After Covid restrictions began to lift, I was still wearing a mask due to panic attacks I'd get without it. My roommate and I were in the drive-thru for McDonald's and a group of teens two cars ahead of us were acting nuts. They were running around all the cars and honking and beating on windows and such. I was very annoyed as it was hard to keep track of all of them so we wouldn't accidentally hit one. Finally, just as we get up to the order board, one of the teens turn to me and yell out "Why are you wearing a mask?" I yelled back "I have Covid!" (which was a lie, I never got Covid). But the look of fear that crossed that kid's face as he ducked back into the car and rolled the window up quick was hilarious. I felt justified in my response, as he had been harassing everyone in line as it was. The lady taking our order never batted an eye when we showed up at the window. But I politely informed her that I'd lied to get the kid to go away. I wore it for mental comfort. She smiled and thanked me for my order. HOWEVER< I do applaud MYSELF in my mind. Does that count? LOL.

Why on earth would a homeless person leave their only dollar in a bathroom. Why would they have taken it out of a pocket to begin with.

22:50 The click speaking german was everything I ever needed lmao He did a good job actually but the accent was just so beautiful

Honestly its just so baffling how people dont see how "oh how would you know if you're x without doing y" is such a bland arguement that can easily be flipped around?

"He never made that comment again." A bit of background: Here in The Netherlands, until a few years ago there used an orchestra entirely made up of physically and mentally handicapped people called 'Josti Band'. They weren't that great but they had a lot of fun playing. They sold out large venues with relative ease. But as a result the name Josti became somewhat of a slur. So I have this colleague who has clearly reached his intellectual peak three to four decades ago. He often tries to pull himself up by dragging others down. A few years ago I was his target. When I entered the break room he was already there eating his toasti/grilled cheese sandwich. I snatch a brownie from the table while I pour myself some coffee. "Ha ha. A downie with a brownie." He jokes. I turn around; "And Josti with a Tosti." He was flabbergasted while another colleague nearly soiled himself. He never made that joke again.

18:44 Both my grannies would applaud your 13-16 year old self. Mainly my Dutch lesbian granny, but also my Irish ally granny. I've just come back from my Dutch lesbian granny, and she had said such nice things about my Irish ally granny. Apparently she and my grandfather sent them a lovely letter with lots of money (very typical for her) to them for their wedding. They used it to go on honeymoon to Barcelona and sent a letter back thanking her and my grandfather. Of course all the other people who gave gifts too, but it makes for a less good story if we include all that. My Irish ally granny was also So Embarrassed and Ashamed when her county didn't vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage. It was so sweet. I'll miss her.

I told my kids no matter what, if a teacher says you cant go to the restroom and you NEED to go. Walk out. Idgaf. You will not be in trouble with me or the school once I'm done with them. We had a few situations like that poor girls and thats with accommodations also -.-

My dermatillomania is also kinda bad. Scarred face etc. I once told a student I was going to comic con and wanted to dress as Sailor Mercury. He told me I should go as Dead Pool. Fortunately, I did not know this movie at the time. Had no clever comeback... dang it!

7:22 "my parents didn't tell me that I had asthma because they didn't want me to use my asthma as a crutch. They did the same thing with my brother with his diabetes diagnosis because they didn't want how to use his diabetes as a crutch."

brit here, we used to only ever get mail in hand, but ig with delivery driver quotas this has steadily shifted into leaving on the porch. I'm very uncomfortable with it since I always suspect it might get stolen. I much prefer having it not be on the porch and sent back for resending any day.

The teacher telling the school about the poster's mental health issues gave me flashbacks to my youth, for background context, I was diagnosed with a rare form of dwarfism, that caused me to need many surgeries as a child, heart issues, lung issues and amongst other complications, a life expectancy of about 20 years old, I am currently typing this a month away from my 27th birthday, so when I was in the 9th grade, I started in a Clinical Trial and I had to go to the hospital once a week to receive an infusion of the enzyme my body cannot make and potentially save my life (It works, I am still on the medication to this day), so every week I would miss Wednesdays in school. I was already struggling with math (since then I've been diagnosed with Dyscalculia) and I was failing, so my algebra teacher decided to call my mother and tell her to pull me out of this trial because I was failing Algebra. My mother responded to her saying "My daughter's ability to live, is more important than her ability to find X" and hung up on her

Hey Click, my emotional support demon arrived few days ago and I took him to a psychiatrist visit. Really helped me mentally lol >:] (I have no other reason to say this aside from the fact that I’m really happy and glad that I had found the channel)

I've always loved the comeback of "How do you know you're straight unless You've tried the gay?" and i have a strong feeling that I'll have to use it soon. I have a coworker who does not stop pestering me about literally everything in my life. He doesn't know that I'm bisexual, and i can certainly see him asking how I know about my attraction. I don't mind educating people, but if he starts making jokes about it that i find distasteful, I'm going to use this and other similar responses to just embarrass him as much as possible. I've already gotten him to shut up a bit when he asked me if i use a loofa or my hands to wash myself, and i told him "I don't wash myself."

I have a cousin in my family who always used to go on about how her kids were so much better since they didn't come from a divorced household. Did it all through my childhood. Fast forward to a couple years ago, her precious son got arrested for naughties with an under-aged girl. When the news broke about what happened, the first thing out of my mouth in front of her was "At least I don't have to inform the neighbors when I move in."

American here, and yeah American schools are AWFUL about fairness. Nobody will protect you from bullying & if you fight back OR NOT you will get in trouble. I had a teacher make me apologize to a kid FOR HIM KICKING ME, and he was a repeat offender to multiple kids. Also had teachers not care about kids throwing stuff at me. Even my mom has a story where she got in trouble for being attacked by a guy in a hallway. This is why a lot of people teach their kids to fight back because thats the only way to get the bully to stop & you're gonna get in trouble anyways

That feel when you lose the argument in the shower to yourself; and now you're not on speaking terms,

7:05 Neither did mine. I literally had to ask my mom if I had ADHD, and she was like "oh yea, yea you do." The thing is, I had gone to therapy for a while bc of it, but I just thought I was broken or something lol. Also, my mom knew abt my ADHD, but still she often called me lazy, when I couldn't get tasks done :D

7:18 a similar thing happened to me but the reason was actually bc my parents didn’t want me on meds and now I can’t take the meds bc I’m not used to taking a lot of pills. Putting me on meds sooner would have probably helped me take pills in general. Later in my life I started hiding any pills I was given bc I couldn’t stand the texture and pills always made me gag/choke.

"I will let you pet my sword" - holy euphemism, Batman!

“Pet my sword” 100 pts for innuendos used in Shakespeare

I have a few shirts that have my favorite comebacks. "I had a brain tumor, I'm allowed to do weird things" is today's shirt. Another reads "I had brain surgery, what's your excuse?" These shirts take the words right out of my mouth.

The bathroom emergency story reminds me of the college math exam I delivered randomly cuz after half an hour I couldn't take it anymore and was seriously concerned about my intestines health. Got 0 on that one, it sucked like hell, had paid to redo a full exam at the end of the semester cuz of it

I was a skin picker too-very severe. I used tools(pins n tweezers) n didn’t pay attention to cleanliness. (I’ve struggled w depression my whole life.) I developed a spinal infection from staph entering my bloodstream. The small town ER I went to told me I was a drug addict (clean UAs-not an addict!) n not to come back there looking for drugs! Long story short: I am now a paralyzed double amputee bc of their belief in my imaginary drug addiction. Dw, they paid, but I sure would rather have had my mobility back

In my experience in the US, the person defending themselves often gets in MORE trouble than the bully. As someone who was suspended for "fighting" i.e. fighting BACK on more than one occasion, I can confidently say it's pretty common. Now I have kids in the school system who have also gotten in trouble for standing up to bullies. My daughter got in trouble for threatening to fight back when her friend was getting picked on. My daughter stepped in and said she'd fight them with her friend if they kept it up, and she's the one who got in trouble. To the point where her friend's mom and I moved both girls to a different school because they weren't protecting this little girl, and if our girls fired back they got lunch detention. It's some ol' bullshit.

teachers suck tho. when I was young and "fresh off the boat" per se, I was bullied by a girl non stop. she took a handful of rocks and threw them down my shirt. when trying to explain it to the teacher I told her "she threw more rocks at me more than-" she cut me off by saying "oh you were going to say "more than you did" which means you are also in detention" so for a week I was in detention for being bullied. i hated that woman's guts my entire time there. edit: I was trying to say more than you could imagine but I was shit at English at the time so couldn't form my words correctly

15:15 Bad teacher, the sexually harassed student should NOT be the one punished after FINSLLY losing their patience.

Sadly, in the U.S., we have a no violence policy in our schools were, even if you're just defending yourself against a bully you'd still get in trouble for it. I think it's was made to prevent fighting in schools. However, even back when I went to school even I thought that rule was stupid because I thought it encouraged people not defending themselves even after getting bullied for it. Keep in mind, I'm an autistic person who likes rules and even I can't stand that stupid policy that basically lets bully's get away with stuff because they know you will get in trouble if you defend yourself.

When I came out as Aroace my friend said that wasn’t a real thing. I made her watch a video on it and know she’s accepting of it.

As someone who grew up in NC, the church story hits so hard My family was loosely catholic, but my dad and I are agnostic. A bunch of kids in school started asking why I didn't go to their church, repeatedly. Then later years they decided to try and use atheist as if it were an insult, so I corrected them since I liked using words correctly, and it became a massive discussion for the stupid 8th graders we all were. Eventually I went to their church (dad's girlfriend made me), then stopped, and it started back up again. Though there was one kid who pressed "Why'd you stop coming to my church" "Because you annoy me all week and I need more than 1 day break from you" And that's how I made friends with his sister, since she laughed so hard she choked on her pizza.

My parents didn't tell me I was diagnosed with Asperger's at 5 (it was still called Asperger's back then), apparently my Dad was afraid I would "think [I] was special". That's been a theme with him, and is also the reason I wasn't skipped ahead several years like the school, therapists, whomever recommended. My Mom only told me last year. I'm 40. So much of my life would have been different, so much different, but I guess that's the case with practically everything. Still, I have to wonder about the things that have affected me most, y'know? Also there's a good chance the dollar in the story at 26:30 had drugs folded up in it. That would have been a reason for panic.

The ADHD story really resonates with me. When I had to go to a psychologist my parents and the psychologist refused to let me see my diagnoses. My therapist was horrified years later when I brought it up, finally having realized that it’s not normal.

We need to do a bingo for this subreddit! We could do pushing boundaries, invasive medical questions, creepy aholes, etc etc.

16:08 When I was going to school, a lot of schools here in the US would have "Zero tolerance" policies when it came to fights. Basically, they didn't care if there was a clear instigator, everyone who was involved got in trouble, even if one person never threw a punch. It was very unfair, and some bullies would abuse it just to get their targets in trouble as well.

I told my kids that if they were denied bathroom access to go anyway and I would handle any issues with the school. It's cruel to force someone to possibly soil themselves, especially in a group setting because of a power trip. I am particularly triggered by this issue because I have serious medical issues that make access to bathrooms critical. Urgency and pain are horrible enough. Unnecessarily making life even harder by denying bathroom access over a power trip is just cruelty. There's already too much unnecessary negativity surrounding bodily functions.

My parents didn’t want me to get formally diagnosed with ASD because they “didn’t want me to use it as a crutch”.

That "Y'all found Jesus yet?" story was just far too cute! It's a reaction most atheists kinda hope to get :)

16:33 US schools don't care about students being bullied until they retaliate. The adults typically say things like "toughen up," "it builds character," "I went through it, stop being a wimp," etc... When the bullied kid either retaliates or literally defends themselves from getting beat on, suddenly it's "Zero Tolerance" and "you should've told someone..." Yet, no one can understand why so many "lone wolves" have "mental health" issues in the school system.

"Verbal self-defense" needs to be a legally valid response to harassment. Also, screw zero-tolerance policies that blame everyone involved.

I suffer from dermatillomania as well. People are so quick to over step boundaries and assume they are entitled to people’s medical history. It’s astonishing. Also, it’s considered a mental condition which is mental health related, so it is very much a medical condition. IMO!

7:31 My best friend found out at 18 when she accessed her records she was diagnosed with OCD at 8. She would say her whole life she surely couldn’t have it but she felt like she did and it was a huge issue for her. And then she found out hers was considered so severe she walked into a normal checkup at 8 and out with a diagnosis.

18:19 _"That is an inappropriate question, but I'm gonna answer it anyway"_ lmfao! 🤣 If the question was indeed inappropriate, then so was answering it and as a teacher of a class of minors, she should have gotten in MAJOR trouble for that then! 💁

My parents didnt tell me about my autism diagnosis i got as a small child. At all. Their reasoning was that they wanted me 'to live a normal life.' I struggled to make friends, struggled with academics as soon as the work load increased, struggled to understand why i couldnt talk to people properly or why i got so obsessed with things (i had genuinely EVERY SINGLE scooby doo movie as a kid). And my parents were like 'oh youre just an old soul!!!' I still feel so cheated sometimes, because if i had known about my diagnosis and had gotten accomodations in middle school maybe id be in a higher math track instead of begging to be brought down because i wasnt able to understand how the math was being taught on my own. If any parents are reading this and their children get diagnosed as neurodivergent, please tell them and help them out. Their childhoods will be a lot happier if they get the support they need.