I always feel survivor takes on a different meaning in terms of child abuse (as someone who has also experienced it). Typically, the abuse isn’t a one-off event, it’s something sustained over years. You become a survivor like similarly to a POW: it’s something that you’ve managed to outlive, rather than an event…

I found this article truly and throughly thought provoking. I hated being a “victim” because my identity was taken and defined by one awful moment. Once again, he had control to define and shape me...that was my right. Survivor felt better (?) but it still seems like that should be assigned to something triumphant or…

I like to think Neville in the back caused that rather Hermione.

Operation Restore Hope in 1993. Was part of the initial push into Mogadishu. My unit ended up the unofficial bodyguards for Hussein Farah since he was the only Marine who spoke the language and who his father was.

He’s definitely a legend, just not in the way he wanted to be.

For most of this country’s history, children born with medical issues were hidden away, either kept at home or sent to an institution (if they didn’t die from whatever ailed them). The pendulum has swung way far the other way, now some people seek to adopt disabled children so the world can see what kind and Godly…

God, that’s pathetic. Do they really think people are going to stop paying attention just because they flash a few black faces at us on the screen?

He’s barely even been a guy for that long...

This reminds me a bit of the University of Texas case from a while back, where a girl friend of the killer did an enormous amount of helping him try to get away with it for no conceivable reason/gain. In fact, when asked why she did so by a reporter, she reportedly said “because thats how I roll.”

Anyway, my heart…

For me -eating yogurt, apples & avoiding gluten has helped a lot. Also getting a handle on stress.

True! Yeah I was just thrown off by it being called school and not, like, the day care at the YMCA or something. Also the backpack makes him look like he’s ready to do his times tables...

The next time you speak to your grandma please feel free to tell her that millions of strangers on the internet think she’s a nasty old hag. Because we do. We really, really do.

Nope. It was Swahili. Got a few minutes? Learn to say, “Hello,” in Swahili. It sounds nothing like Spanish.

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