“Be careful NOT to say things like ‘if you would only apply yourself’ or ‘try harder next time’ or any comments that assume your loved one wasn’t already trying their hardest. (Because our best is all we can give, and being told our best isn’t good enough is demoralizing).”
– Lyric Rivera, Could Your Child or Loved One be NeuroDivergent?
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Spaghetti is strange don't you think? like its a long dough worm that we put in bubbly water and then douse in cow muscles and tomato blood. I wonder how much trial and error it took to get to this point. Don't get me fucking started on jerky.
I saw that Etho submitted 63 tomes on Tango’s vod, and that he was also sick this past week. But it just hit me that this man was sick all week doing Deck Out runs.
Hi! Can I ask you a question about France? How common or uncommon or weird is the use of coucou as a greeting? Especially between adults. Would it be super weird if I went to France and greeted someone like that?
I don't trust the click-baity articles that show up when I google this (I'm not even sure all of them were written by humans), so I'd rather ask someone that, you know, actually lives over there.
Thanks, have a nice day
Hi! Coucou is a pretty common greeting including between adults (though it's more often used by women as it does sound a bit cutesy), but I think it implies pre-established friendly relations, unlike the neutral Bonjour or Salut. I only use it with family and friends. Friendly acquaintances too—okay now that I think about it, it's hard to say where I draw the coucou line. I use it as a greeting when I enter the library if there's no one in there but the librarian because I know her well, but if there are other people in the room I say bonjour even if they're children. And of course if I knew the librarian very well but didn't like her she wouldn't get a coucou. You kind of have to follow your heart with this greeting.
But definitely don't use it to greet people in a shop or formal context or anyone you don't know well because that would be weird (in my view!) Coucou sounds affectionate, I often use it in writing to set the tone ("Hi I am an informal unthreatening email !") (also if a French person sends you a text that starts with Cc, that's textspeak for coucou)
To me "Salut !" is "Hi!" while "Coucou" is Hi :) <3
This poem was written for Autism Acceptance Month.
“Try Harder!”
Fuck you! You don’t get
to decide I’m not doing
my best! Ask what’s wrong!
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