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drmaggiemoreau in bsc_snark

Jessi's Secret Language Part 2

Jan 27, 2015 13:56

Jessi’s Secret Language Part 2
So, after my first snark, I was so excited to read all the comments, and I’m jumping back in for part 2!

( You like me, you really really like me! )

#16 jessi's secret language, dancing, i hate dawn, haley braddock, saintly bsc, i hate jessi, facepalm

Comments 29

anabellabobella January 30 2015, 01:22:37 UTC

If she didn’t feel comfortable directly dealing with Jenny, she could have told her mother, or simply apologized to Matt and Haley on Jenny’s behalf.

Jenny is four. Kids that age can get scared by what they don't understand, and act like brats. It's a normal reaction. The person responsible needs to explain what's going on. Even a simple explanation can go a long way. This is a fail on Mary Anne. So much fail. As far as Jenny knows, for some unknown reason, can't hear her. She can't see headphones or anything, so won't understand since no one will tell her! And the two kids she doesn't know are making weird hand movements she doesn't understand either. That's going to be scary for a lot of little kids.

Katie Beth explains that her sister goes off to deaf people Hogwarts, and she’s not up on sign language. I don't buy this reason. Jessi's babysat Token: DE, what, twice now? And she's fluent? In the past 24 hours, Katie would have spent more time with Adele than Jessi has spent with Matt. I will never buy the idea ( ... )

anabellabobella January 30 2015, 01:24:24 UTC

“Sometimes I wish he’d never been born.” A disability can be a burden, for both the person with it and the people around that burden. Most of us wouldn't think too much of it since we love the person. I never say it as a hardship to help my brother, nor to translate for my daughter (autistic, though very much improved to the point that she can communicate 99% on her own now). But if I, as a kid, was put in so much charge of my brother, I'd resent him too. Instead, by getting to have my own friends instead of being my brother's full-time keeper, the worst nightmare I ever have, prior to becoming a mother, was a dream where my brother died. That was my worst fear. I became very protective on my own exactly because I didn't have to be ( ... )

drmaggiemoreau January 30 2015, 02:39:15 UTC

I feel bad for Haley, but I also hate when people who use that particular "I wish (s)he'd never been born" argument (closely related to "you just aren't good enough, that's why bad stuff happens to you"). So when I read that line, I was pretty viscerally shocked that that line was in a kid's book. It's essentially forcing me to imagine that a close friend or relative thinks that my disability is so awful, it outweighs our love and connection to each other. If I found out someone I loved did think that, I would be very upset, to say the least ( ... )

anabellabobella January 30 2015, 05:16:49 UTC

In the hands of a halfway decent author, Haley's feelings could have been handled well and she could have been a character more kids who have siblings with disabilities could connect with. Instead we adults basically have to apply real-world understanding of kids that Ann obviously didn't intent to be there. If we have to think about how real children may react to things and why, there's no way the target audience will get what we can out of these scenes ( ... )

undeadnicole January 31 2015, 03:33:35 UTC

If I quoted everything in this snark that made me literally LOL (so much so that my boyfriend kept looking up from his work wanting me to read it aloud) I'd be quoting pretty much the whole thing. So I'll just say you're AWESOME! Be my friend? :D

drmaggiemoreau January 31 2015, 04:50:22 UTC

Yes. And thank you!

`FYI sifukatara February 1 2015, 22:47:27 UTC

Hi! I just finished reading your snark on Jessi's secret language. You have a unique snarking style. I honestly don't think you can detach a retina using a pencil. In my experience, the only two things that can do it are hitting your head really hard or sudden drops on amusement park rides. I know this because I have ROP, a condition that stems from a detached retina. Therefore, I've had many reattachment surgeries throughout my life. I feel bad for Haley, but I feel worse for Matt and Adella. Sorry, I meant Adelle. I have Ariel on the brain right now. Anyway, awesome snark!

Re: `FYI drmaggiemoreau February 1 2015, 23:10:51 UTC

I did not know that you could detach a retina from roller coasters! I'm a little scared to go on any rides now. That sucks that you had to have so many surgeries on your eyes- I've had a lot of surgeries myself, and they are a big pain in the butt. Sometimes literally. Eye surgery is a thing I really never want to have to have, and I hope you don't need any more.

Re: `FYI sifukatara February 2 2015, 00:34:48 UTC

Hi. Thanks for your kind words. Re: Not having anymore surgeries, you and me both. From your mouth to God's ears sincerely. I had to have another one two years ago when my eye pressure increased out of nowhere. That's what caused me to lose my right eye at ten-years-old. And just so you don't get scared, if you don't have Retina-opathy of prematurity, which is what I have, the chances of your retina detaching at all, let alone on a roller coaster or any other fast moving ride are very slim to none.