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Siblings, culture, & nature. ❤️

Siblings, culture, and nature ❤️

Eh. Didn’t finish.

"Our great challenge is to apply the lessons of neuroplasticity, the flexibility of the brain circuits, to rewire the brains and reorganize the minds of people who have been programmed by life itself to experience others as threats and themselves as helpless."

This old book is cracking me up! "I hate to lie too, but people will say we’re lesbians.” “Aren’t we?” “No, we just love each other, that’s all. Lesbians look like men and are ugly. We’re not like that.” “We don’t look like men, but when women make love it’s commonly labeled lesbianism so you’d better learn not to cringe when you hear the word.”

“Blood’s just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

"I think it harder to be Cool than rich" (page 84) I am trying to enjoy this book, but I just keep feeling too old.

"Do you like your shirts?" I wonder if high schoolers still covet boys' shirts. Is this a '90s-00's thing or is it permanent?

“Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love?” How did The Warm Fuzzies Story get mixed up in a contemporary LGBT YA novel? Spread the love.

“she gets up from the kitchen table and, before i know it, she’s giving me a hug. and it’s like for a moment i don’t know what to do with my hands, and then i’m like, you dumbfuck, hug her back.” Aaah! I wish more real life coming out stories involved mom hugs instead of mom tears. Someday.

“I feel that crying is almost—like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever—totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Don’t care too much. 2. Shut up." Will sounds like some teenagers I know! They are so good at putting up walls to avoid feeling pain or discomfort.

“If you believe every person has the inherent right to be treated with dignity and you acknowledge that you have to educate children in a manner that actually reflects boys’ lives, you have to take a stand against homophobia—just as you should about racism, sexism, and any other form of bigotry.”

I'm reading this with one of my best friends to help us help our teen boys. "The Act-Like-a-Man Box" keeps spinning in my head along with images of all of my boys--nephews and students.

I'm read this with one of my best friends to help us help our teen boys. "The Act-Like-a-Man Box" keeps spinning in my head along with images of all of my boys--nephews and students.

I'm read this with one of my best friends to help us help our teen boys. "The Act-Like-a-Man Box" keeps spinning in my head along with images of all of my boys--nephews and students.