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[–] 115 points 1 week ago* (16 children)

That is a very young age to experience not being believed by parents. The poor kid, I hope she's not traumatised. It's surprising the things that can mark us.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Well, children aren't very good at telling the difference between real and fantasy. At least I'm fairly sure my nephew isn't actually Iron Man. Believing everything they say would be gullible at best, stupid at worst. And seriously, this won't be traumatizing because adults didn't believe the kid.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Neither of us can say that for sure because we don't have the necessary details. Internalisation is no myth, and it's very hard to work with when kids are pre-verbal or have low vocabulary. There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.

    But there's this other book that says to ignore them and beat them when they're too annoying to ignore. It's called the bibble or something. Jeezus wrote it.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    I'm one of those kids. Either we're over explaining people pleasers or the trauma turned us into monsters.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I think I know what you mean. That inner flurry can have a silent persistence that pushes us one way or the other, but doesn’t let us rest. Have you found anything that helps?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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    [–] 58 points 1 week ago*

    I once bought a mousetrap with my pocket money and caught the mouse, my parents didn't believe was in my bedroom.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    maybe she should have said it was 60000 bees then?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Maybe she should have said it was a $20,000 bill.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    When I was a kid I told my mom about something scary out the window. The didn’t believe me either. Turned out someone was on the side of the house stealing parts off some kind of electrical box.

    I don’t remember this. I was told about it later.

    I DO remember being afraid of windows until I was an adult.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    They’re in the walls… oh god… they’re in the walls!

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I used to hear scratching in my bedroom walls at night when I was a kid.

    My dad said it was probably red squirrels but to me, it was demons trying to claw their way through a portal.

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    [–] 23 points 1 week ago

    I just had wasps burrow their way into the side of my house and chew down through the ceiling of my first floor bathroom. That very particular and unnerving scratching noise is fucking burned into my brain.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Was this an experiment in remote parenting or how did they not notice the bees for months?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    I don't know about bees, but last year I noticed wasps crawling in and out a hole on my balcony. I did not think much of it, but noticed the home owner, just to be safe.

    Well they send a beekeeper, and that guy explained to me that now it is quiet, but within 4 weeks he expect there to be about 20000 wasps in there, it would be getting really loud and they would have started to find an exit into my apartment. Apparently they multiply really fast.

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    [–] 16 points 1 week ago

    The monsters are real, and they are us 60 kilobees

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Why does everything cost 20k in the US Do most people make a million per year lol

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Salaries in the USA are traditionally much higher than in other countries.

    We also tend to pay less taxes.

    Then we pay a fuck ton for everything else AND we’re like the cutting room floor for shitty capitalist policies that will be shipped over to yall in a decade or so.

    That said a nearly 200k/yr salary on the coasts can leave you still struggling to make ends meet whereas 50k in the flyovers can have you sitting happy.

    The USA is made up of so many little economies that show up to be one one big economy.

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    [–] 13 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    Why would you need to pay for bee removal? Local beekeepers will do it for free in my neighborhood.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago* (8 children)

    Got to open up the walls, clean the honey residue, removing the hive, and rebuild the walls. Getting rid of the bees is the easiest part.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Yeah but that’s $20k? I guess 60k bees is a lot

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Walls and shit are expensive, yeah.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    $20K to open up a single wall and put it back up is not reasonable, even in a high COL area

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    until it is a load bearing wall and you need specialists to make sure your house doesn't collapse when replacing it. Also depends on where the house is - if the area is hard to get to with heavy machinery, costs can explode easily.

    Edit: Just read the article. The bees started in the attic and went deep into the walls - they had to remove 45kg (100 pounds) of honeycomb out of the walls and had to do three extractions to remove the bees. They fucked up the electrical wiring too (which was probably not limited to the wall with the nest). It also was 20000$ // 16000£.

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    [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    This happened to me when I was about 10. My parents were getting the house renovated and I kept telling them about this noise in ny bedroom. They got one of the contractors to open a little hole and suddenly bees everywhere. That did not help with my fear of bees.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    I can tell this wasn't written by bees.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It's crazy that insurance didn't pay for it because they deemed it "preventable".

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    [–] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Every time I see something that says bees I immediately think of Arrested Development.

    Beads. Bees? Beads! Beads?!

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