I did not expect a nethack-based handle and picture on this thread. Well played!

And yes, raising children to be able to deal with the world does sound great (no pissy ironic tone in that sentence, honestly). People have pointed out to me that they are actually happy & that my depression is, not to put too fine a point…

as bowsercrushes intuits, my post is the post of someone who was abused as a child (and whose sibling was also abused as a child). i wasn't trying to be edgy, or enter the conversation with anything other than good faith. this is simply how the world looks to me.

those wouldn't be unreasonable reactions to have.

even a child raised with the most love, the best of intentions, the most possible security that parents could give it, etc, is still vulnerable to feeling the pain of the world. you might even say more so. barring the revolution (har har), systemic injustice (appearing in the piece as Cheney's portfolio, but mutatis…