I still have my favorite baby blanket and it was store-bought and I loved it because it was soft. The scratchy one my grandmother knitted out of love for me was a very sweet gift at the time but I wouldn't have been UPSET without it. People are so weird to me.
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Specifically the last comment gathered here is blowing my mind a little.https://twitter.com/such_hockey_wow/status/1329125539303489536 …
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"You need to hand-knit a blanket for your bullying homophobic brother because someday that child will want to pass that blanket on to HIS kids" There are a LOT of assumptions in that sentence, sir.
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- assuming he wants kids - assuming he can have kids - assuming he wants to hand-down the blanket - assuming it's in good condition - assuming his partner wants this too
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One year I made quilts for the "kids" in the family and I assure you they were all way more excited about the video games they got and those quilts are now stained and torn from use. I don't regret the gift, but c'mon.
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They wouldn't have been *heartbroken* not to get a quilt. And those were actual kids and not a newborn baby who isn't gonna know squat.
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Apparently a lot of you would feel very upset to find out you were the only kid who didn't get a Special Blanket and your feelings are valid!! but also very foreign to me because I would not care even a little bit.
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Like, I was a baby when this hypothetical blanket wasn't given. So presumably the Blanket Maker was mad at my parents and not me, and having met my parents I can firmly say the Blanket Maker had a damn good point.
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I have rejection sensitive dysphoria and weep if I even *think* someone is upset at me, so it's been interesting to learn there is one thing I'm immune to caring about and it's Things People Gifted Me When I Was A Newborn. Don't care even a little.
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Actually, hearing some of you talk, I come to suspect some of this involves the fact that my family is abusive and anything even remotely " heirloom"y is hugely unwanted by me because I don't WANT to be tied to them and their traditions.
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Some of you are saying receipt of the heirloom means the family "accepts you as one of them" and that kinda flipped a light on as to WHY I don't want heirlooms from my relatives. Being accepted as one of them (without major changes on their part) would say bad things about me.
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Still, I must've instinctively grokked how terrible they were at a young age even if I wasn't conscious of it because "grandma didn't give you a blanket" would've been fine by me. Good, less obligation from me to her then.
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I dreaded Christmas and birthdays because presents were fraught with weird expectations of hugs and kisses and thank you cards to terrible abusive people who were being allowed to pretend they were otherwise, which was scary and confusing.
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