i’m a turtle

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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Japanese, English, ASL, and Spanish. Those are my four.

    I’m trying to get my Japanese back to as good as it was before I came to America-proper; I spent my childhood on an Air Force base and went to a school in rural Japan. Then I learned English, and with it, my Japanese started rotting. Started really trying hard to get decent at it again for the last decade. It comes, but slowly.

    I can count to ten in Spanish cause that’s the second-place language out here, and ASL cause doing 20 counts on one hand is stupid useful and I love it.




  • A few things:

    • Do you know what “screeching” means? It doesn’t mean “state well-reasoned arguments with mostly lowercase letters.”

    • Screeching is useful, and is enjoyed by a wide variety of people, including retail employees, library disturbers, theater ejectees, and other people.

    • I worry that by accusing everyone of “screeching,” as you put it, that you have a habit of casting autistic and neurodivergent people in a bad light. Accusing everyone who makes a reply at you of “screeching” is really weird.

    • I bet you actually screech. I tap silently on my phone while listening to good music. It’s a wonderful vibe.