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What were you surprised to learn wasn't actually normal? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Intense aversion to unpreferred tasks

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Homophobia

I was raised in a right wing, rural area, and i didn't meet a gay person til higschool. When he said he was gay, i assumed he was joking.

Im trans now lol

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Dude tells you he's gay, immediately turns you trans. The danger is real, people! 😭

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

gun assault survival training for kids

yeah, no, this is just locally normal

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, the feeling of one side of your hip being out of place. Then twisting slightly to snap it back.

It's hip displasia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Is this a thing for knees? Every once in a while, my knees just pop out of their sockets. It's incredibly painful, and I have to move them back by hand. I went to a doctor when I was like 18 though, and they took an x-ray, and couldn't find anything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I suppose so, but I'm not a doctor

https://radiopaedia.org/articles/trochlear-dysplasia

For the hip there's also not a (as an adult) treatment, rather taking care to keep it in place and strengthen your muscles.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Growing up using a poop knife.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Did you actually? Or are you carrying that over from reddit? 'Cause I actually have a similar one to that 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Do tell

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, a person of class!

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Getting locked in the basement without water, or thrown out into the streets for half a day, when you misbehaved as a child.

[+] [email protected] -89 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I mean, yeah? Is that really so bad. I guess it depends what the intent was. The town I grew up in was pretty tame, and the room I'd get locked in without food or water if I'd misbehaved had books

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 weeks ago

yes, that is a form of child abuse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The only acceptable intent would be something like saving your child from a murderer assaulting your family and there not being enough time for supplies.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was locked outside of the house for long periods of time and had to drink from the garden hose / garden faucet, and pee in the bushes. We also had like 10+ apple trees. It wasn't that bad. A bit boring sometimes.

But that's because it was outside and I could get my needs covered and meet friends.

Locked inside without these needs covered for extended periods is a lot worse in my opinion. Even cats and dogs have those needs covered.

It's also about the lack of freedom when locked inside.

I would not treat my own children like I was treated, and especially not like you were.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 2 weeks ago

Today you are learning it's not normal to lock children away with no food or water.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think how rough the punishment is really depends on how long you strand the child for

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

spelling goto as one word.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, you should write readable code…

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ya buddy?! Well you can just goto EOL

EDIT: I should probably premise this that EOL in this funny context is End-Of-Line, which is an old programming term. I'm not referring to End of Life.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Reading.

When I got to high school I started taking book out from the library there. Over three years I took out about a dozen books that had never been read; they'd just been sitting on the shelves for years.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Social democracy

In general the political system you grow up in seems to becomes a normalcy in your mind when in reality there's so many different ways of governing

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Not everyone has tics they must surpress while in public.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Apparently, it isn't normal to just space out during a test. Yeah, I went through K-12, undergrad, and grad school with an undiagnosed learning disability. This was only one of the symptoms...

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