• Zensate@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The pathological need to make your baby everyone else’s business needs to be studied

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      Its not " look at the cute thing you must want to hold it" its " please take the cute thing. I am exhausted & NEED A FREAKING SECOND."

    • inzen@lemmy.world
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      Yeah. It is very hard to understand unless you experience it. I think it’s a change in brain chemistry but could also be trauma from the stress and lack of sleep. 🤷

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        Yeah, generally speaking if my “brain chemistry” needs to change for me to understand something, that sounds more like trauma than rationality

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      As a parent, I get so many people that are so thrilled to hold the baby (why?? It’s a droll machine! My very own droll machine that I live but why do you want a part of it?) that it becomes normal to offer the droll machine around. Obviously, I am also not an asshole and accept the nos, and also accept that some people pretty much disappeared from my life because they don’t want to deal with the drool machine or all the constraints of the droll machine.