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That is a very young age to experience not being believed by parents. The poor kid, I hope she’s not traumatised. It’s surprising the things that can mark us.
I’m one of those kids. Either we’re over explaining people pleasers or the trauma turned us into monsters.
I think I know what you mean. That inner flurry can have a silent persistence that pushes us one way or the other, but doesn’t let us rest. Have you found anything that helps?
Not yet :(
Forgive me for offering unsolicited advice, but one-to-one therapy with a psychodynamic trained (or other modality) therapist can really help.
In parallel, meditation can help to overcome a certain amount of the uncomfortable feelings. I can share an inspiring documentary with you on the latter.
Well, children aren’t very good at telling the difference between real and fantasy. At least I’m fairly sure my nephew isn’t actually Iron Man. Believing everything they say would be gullible at best, stupid at worst. And seriously, this won’t be traumatizing because adults didn’t believe the kid.
Neither of us can say that for sure because we don’t have the necessary details. Internalisation is no myth, and it’s very hard to work with when kids are pre-verbal or have low vocabulary. There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.
There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.
But there’s this other book that says to ignore them and beat them when they’re too annoying to ignore. It’s called the bibble or something. Jeezus wrote it.
Wah? Who’s this Jeezus person? Must’ve known my parents because… well I just want to smack 'em upside the head.
I think kids usually start speaking earlier than that.
Not enough to diagnose their inner state with a standard therapist.
When I was a kid I told my mom about something scary out the window. The didn’t believe me either. Turned out someone was on the side of the house stealing parts off some kind of electrical box.
I don’t remember this. I was told about it later.
I DO remember being afraid of windows until I was an adult.
Luckily Linux works so well nowadays, huh?
I once bought a mousetrap with my pocket money and caught the mouse, my parents didn’t believe was in my bedroom.
Was this an experiment in remote parenting or how did they not notice the bees for months?
33¢ per bee is crazy.
Back in the day it used to only be 5¢ per bee
AND they let you keep the honey.
Why would you need to pay for bee removal? Local beekeepers will do it for free in my neighborhood.
Got to open up the walls, clean the honey residue, removing the hive, and rebuild the walls. Getting rid of the bees is the easiest part.
Yeah but that’s $20k? I guess 60k bees is a lot
Walls and shit are expensive, yeah.
$20K to open up a single wall and put it back up is not reasonable, even in a high COL area
BBC would suggest UK, so £20k. But also our walls are often solid rather than wood and plasterboard.
Still sounds a lot unless they were taking over like half the house.
suckers living in the city.
maybe she should have said it was 60000 bees then?
Maybe she should have said it was a $20,000 bill.
Paying $20,000? I’ll take my chances with the bees.
You can have an actual monster removed for that kind of money
I dontnhave any VEOs living in my walls though
I just had wasps burrow their way into the side of my house and chew down through the ceiling of my first floor bathroom. That very particular and unnerving scratching noise is fucking burned into my brain.
I used to hear scratching in my bedroom walls at night when I was a kid.
My dad said it was probably red squirrels but to me, it was demons trying to claw their way through a portal.
Well? Which was it??
Rip and tear little one
They’re in the walls… oh god… they’re in the walls!
It’s crazy that insurance didn’t pay for it because they deemed it “preventable”.
Every time I see something that says bees I immediately think of Arrested Development.
Beads. Bees? Beads! Beads?!
GOB’s not on board.
The other option was a data centre next door.
The monsters are real, and they are
us60 kilobees$3 per bee
$3 per bee
More like $1 per 3 bees.
yeah
Still quite expensive.
yeah inflation is rough man. I remember when you could get 8 or 9 bees per dollar
Back then, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter”, you’d say.
