What’s with the Stone Cold Salutes?
AI generated, if anyone is wondering.
If anyone out there was actually wondering after seeing that child’s knuckles, they need help.
Enjoy that moment kid, it’s all downhill from there.
No kidding, childhood is the free trial for life.
mostly, but having bad parents is like getting thrown into hardcore mode without ever playing the game before
It’s fun because you get to spend early adulthood patching yourself up enough to pass for a functional human being then later in life you get to have the fun of all the duct tape you used to hold yourself together coming loose before you’re forced to confront the actual issues and heal properly (if you’re lucky).
Or so I’ve heard.
But you can’t opt out after the free trial ends and if you got bad RNG or messed up you get to take the L for 80 years.
Do the kids care about Santa being real or not? I was mainly in for the gifts AFAI recall.
My mom never let me believe in Santa, and as a child I thought it was very surreal how all the kids in pre k and kindergarten were talking about it. I remember kids like actually crying and bawling their eyes out when they learned about it and I’m really glad I wasn’t subjected to that.
A lot of kids do care.
Depends whether you’re parents/family have made the magic of Christmas or the presents the focus. My kids certainly would care; I did too.
Part of it is the illusion being shattered. Part of it is the realisation that your parents and every adult in your life have been deceiving you.
I’m all for keeping it, though. Great fun while it lasts, and it keeps kids wondering “what other magical stories does everyone around me say they believe in but isn’t actually real?”
