amrushmore

[amrushmore]

Well said dreamer, well said

KOSA’s not going to the House. We did it. But our job isn’t done yet.

Continue to sign petitions. Contact senators. Spread the word. Whatever it takes. We won this round, but there’s no guarantee that it won’t just come back eventually. (I don’t have any links to petitions, but if anyone has some feel free to reblog them)

I’m not losing this. I have too many friends I would lose to this stupid bill. Let’s end this bill once and for all.

Now who’s with me?

[amrushmore]

I just want to talk about something that a lot of think is always easy, childhood. To everyone who says that you have easy because you’re not adult, to everyone who dismisses someone else’s input on anything because they’re a minor, go fuck yourself. The lifestyle, living conditions, difficulties in your life are completely out of their control. I have 2 friends who I hold very close to me who been raped by their parents. In fact most my parents at bare min have been beaten by there parents and adults openly say shit like “You should beat your kid, it builds character.” The only thing beating someone does is build fear as to not whatever you did again, likely make your kids fear you rather than respect you and overall make the children under your care feel like your managing them. I know this from personal experience as someone who has gotten beaten when they were younger. If anything, as a minor you’re told that you you have nowhere else to go other than back to them because no one is going to take you into their care except for them meaning you just gotta sit there until someone saves from that household, or you bring it upon yourself to find a way to leave once you get older. Sure without any abuse of any kind it’s easy to say one a child’s life is without any struggle or difficulty but they do have difficulties and struggles of their life. Saying “well wait until you’re an adult” DOESNT. MAKE. IT. ANY. FUCKING. BETTER. If anything it’s much easier to say the exact opposite, sure you have to work but you actually have money, the ability to switch careers (or start one) and freedom in your free time if your so long as you don’t have additional responsibilities after work. If you have anything special going on for work then you’re free. Same for kids but the difference between either is (get this) MONEY. What’s one thing you need for everything you other than the air you breathe and shit out your ass? MONEY. Even ignoring the smaller things like school, let’s talk about what happens after. Parents and teachers always put students in this cycle of ‘doing what your told=success’, ‘go to college or failure’ and the absolute CLASSIC “you’re 18 now, you should be ready to become an adult by now” AS IF YOU DIDNT HAVE TO ASK TO USE THE BATHROOM JUST LAST WEEK. Then when you’re peer pressured into going into college by your family because you likely don’t know what you want in life as it wasn’t something you had to think about until 18 for some reason you end up in a college that’ll leave you in 200k dollars worth of debt, a degree that you may never use and now you’re stuck working at Wendy’s until further notice. All because of the ignorance of your parents, the school system and the worst part is a that you can easily be blamed for this simply “that was your responsibility” AS IF YOU KNEW THAT INSTINCTIVELY. My point is, while childhood can be easy and you can be spoiled, 9/10 it’s not and people should stop disrespecting the struggles of another if they themselves don’t completely understand them.