The Emerald Avenger

wilwheaton:

whatbigotspost:

2021:

Spanking has negative long-term effects, Texas researcher's review of nearly 70 studies finds

Researchers focused on whether kids that are spanked are more likely to share or, conversely, more likely to have anxiety, years down the li

Austin American-Statesman

2021:

The Effect of Spanking on the Brain

Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequences.

Harvard Graduate School of Education

2018:

Science Again Says Spanking Hurts Kids Long Term

The American Academy of Pediatrics says new evidence and research not only show that spanking affects a child’s brain development and increa

WebMD

2016:

Spanking Harms Kids, Doesn't Work And Leads To Long-Term Problems

Kids who are spanked tend to act out more and have more problems later on.

Forbes

2012:

The Long-Term Effects of Spanking

A study reviewed more than two decades of research on the effects of spanking and found nothing positive to report, only that physical punis

The Atlantic

2010:

The Long-Term Effects of Spanking

A multiyear study shows spanking kids makes them more aggressive later on

TIME.com

I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

If you think, “but I was hit and I turned out just fine” let me pre-reply: NO YOU DID NOT. You think hitting a child is ok, how the fuck does that qualify as “fine”?????? From one abuse survivor to another: please start healing yourself.

My parents terrorized my siblings and me with corporal punishment. All it did was teach me that they were fucking monsters.

I miss you

But not you as you really are.

I miss who I thought you were. Before I saw you for who you are. Before the curtain lifted and I suddenly recognized how awful everything was. Before I realized that your worst fear was that I might stop hating myself and find out that I’m beautiful.

I desperately miss what I thought I had.

Life update, because it’s been a while and literally E V E R Y T H I N G has changed for the better.

I’m happy. Actually happy.

I live alone on the east coast in a 2 bedroom apartment I’m completely in love with. I have 2 cats, Mr. B (who’s 10 now!!) and Jack Jack, who’s about 10 months old and came home this past Christmas. 

I moved here in November, a week before Thanksgiving. Thanks to covid I spent the holidays alone. Really I’ve been alone a lot since I moved here, and I’ve found I genuinely enjoy being by myself.

My best friend is moving here! We had no idea it’d happen, but things just worked out perfectly for him to move to my new city. I’m so fucking excited

I’ve lost 175 pounds. I’m not done yet, but I’m literally an entire person away from where I was at the start of last year.

I have my dream job. I’m a QA Automation Engineer at a major video game company (that takes insane care of employees?? Like, truly unbelievable) and I work on an absolutely massive game. You’ve 100% heard of it, most of you have probably played it.

I’m happy. Looking back, I can’t believe it. I never thought I’d get any of these things (except the cats, of course). It’s been a lot of hard work and a fuck ton of luck and an absolutely blind whole hearted belief that shit would work out somehow and just. I can’t believe it.

motherfucker-unlimited:

Personally I’d like to see WOMAN-made horrors beyond my comprehension #feminism

shock:

accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you

foobar-the-great:

xanny:

We used to have to take pictures with like. a camera. and then connect it to a computer with a usb to transfer them. to upload to photobucket . im literally shaking

nobody tell op about having to take literal rolls of film to walmart and then wait 2 weeks to find out whether your finger was in the way