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"There are mysteries to the universe that we were never meant to solve but who we are and why we are here is not one of them" OPTIMUS PRIME
Probably just pick them up for the night and repeat tomorrow and the next day. Children are expensive you know, one less thing to worry about
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Yes to teaching them but also it's very insensitive of the parent who brought that money bouquet. It's the whole reason why school uniform exists. The psychology of a child and especially a teenager is very different from an adult. That parent should have made a better choice.
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There is literally no daycare that just lets you drop off a child they have never met before. There is a long process where you fill out forms on medical history and allergies. They also start with stay and play with the parent present for at least day one.
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Commander in Chips retweeted
I have real sympathy for people with genuine disabilities.
But this, this kind of thing never existed a few decades ago, people like this only exists because we have a benefits system that incentivises it.
Commander in Chips retweeted
One of the greatest privileges in life is having atleast one parent that chooses you, even at their worst choose to have you sleep where they sleep and eat what they ate, they could have close to nothing financially or emotionally but still trickle down that much to you.
Commander in Chips retweeted
Guess what?
She was once the vice president and client manager in JP Morgan Chase.
Five suicide attempts couldn’t kill her. An HIV diagnosis was supposed to finish the job. Instead, she walked into a body modification studio and started cutting away everything that made her human. Both ears. 32 teeth. Her nose. She split her tongue, implanted 18 horns into her skull, and covered every inch of skin in scales. Today she goes by “it” - and says she’s never been happier.
Her full name is Eva Tiamat Baphhomet Medusa. The world calls her the Dragon Lady. She calls herself “the world’s most modified transsexual.” Before any of this, she was Richard Hernandez - a vice president at a bank in Texas.
She grew up in Bruni, a town of 300 people near the Mexican border. As a freshman in high school, she walked up and down the streets screaming “I’m gay” at the top of her lungs in one of the most machismo regions in the country. “Closets are for clothes and tennis shoes,” she says.
At 18, she left for Houston. Fresh from a town with no skyscrapers, she didn’t know you couldn’t trust just anyone. Two men raped her. She doesn’t hate them. “I’m not them,” she says.
She became a banker. Built a career. Then came the HIV diagnosis, which later progressed to AIDS. She left the bank to take care of her health and nearly died. That’s when something shifted. “I decided I’m not going to die looking like a human,” she told Soft White Underbelly. “Being human has been such a negative part of life.”
She spent over $60,000 on body modifications. Not with doctors - with body modification artists. She was the fifth person in the world to get horns implanted into her cranium. She was the first person ever to have both ears surgically removed for cosmetic reasons. She had her testicles removed and plans a full penectomy. “I will be a genderless dragon,” she says. “That’s what dragons are.”
Her son hasn’t spoken to her since the transformation. She did some of the modifications specifically so he could see what his father was becoming. “His weird-looking, strange, used to be a man, is now a woman, is now a reptilian, dad,” she says.
She was abandoned in the woods as a child by her birth parents. She denounced them in favor of a snake. She tried to take her own life five times before the transformation gave her a reason to stay. “My transformation is by and large what saved my life after five failed suicide attempts,” she says. “I am truly happy for the first time in my life.”
She prefers the pronoun “it.” Just like a snake. She swallows food whole because she only has six teeth left - representing the mouth of a rattlesnake. Sirens drive her crazy because without ears, everything sounds louder. She makes cotton candy for the neighborhood kids, and her neighbors say her energy is “the most gentle and pleasant” they’ve ever been around.
In the video below, you can see Tiamat sitting across from the interviewer with her full-face scale tattoos, horn implants, and no ears, calmly describing how she eats, why she removed her teeth, and the moment she decided to stop being human.
Some will say she’s mentally ill and needs help, not a body modification studio. Others will say she found the only thing that kept her alive when nothing else could.
If removing every trace of your humanity is what finally made you happy - were you ever really human to begin with?
