mrsworser

my grandmother's family were from Nanjing and present during the invasion. her oldest brother (age like 900) still emails us articles and stuff written about the atrocities, updates about unapologetic administrations etc. he wanted American schools to teach more about it but

edit: didn't even finish. can you tell? oops. I meant to keep saying:

but American schools just aren't ever focused on the history of non white people.

It certainly wouldn’t. I know here in NJ that most medicaid/medicare providers either 1) have a zillion patients and churn out high numbers, 2) have a set ratio of medicaid/medicare patients they can afford to take, or 3) are part of a teaching hospital and can afford to take the hit. This goes for both medical and mental healthcare in general actually. Patients either complain they never get to know their providers (all residents and never meet the attending, therapist left as soon as they got fully licensed, etc) or that their provider spends 70 milliseconds with them. With the shit ass medicaid rates, no one can afford to do much better.

it just went down like at this moment

My dad died of complications (originally) caused by agent orange as well. I have so many fond memories of playing Myst, Loom, Monkey Island, and later the Might and Magic VI+ rpg games with him. We kept volumes of notebooks and he had all kinds of ‘bulletin board’ friends to share strategies. Mom had to chase us to bed on weeknights because otherwise we’d sit there until the sun came up.

I’m having a lot of feelings about this new game coming out. Too much emotion right now. But damn, thank you for sharing about your grandfather.

i appreciate you being honest and brave enough to say this. for years I've watched my parents cope very differently to my (very younger) brother's various health problems. they never admit that they regret having him, but i know they do because of what he goes through. they had him by accident, btw, they thought they were too old to get pregnant. my father feels guilty and wallows in sorrow. my mom can't face her guilt and instead gets angry and resents not being able to enjoy retirement like her friends and siblings can at their age. they love him dearly but they cannot reconcile the issue of having a child who will knowingly suffer for years, maybe forever.

thank you for saying what you said ^ because it's very real and people don't have the balls to talk about it.