Oswald just HAD to live where ENGLISH is spoken and written. Tough job – although imagine what he’d face in many other places…
Finland would have been nice.
Only the third hardest language to learn, they say. So in a way it would have been great if he had learned it from the get-go.
But the word choice… Chaos. Okay, that’s somewhat normal still. Not the most positive words, but yeah… Macabre? Rightou… Sure it’s there with the slightly harder prononciations, but really? Next in line we have massacre, disembowelment…
And why the parent’s don’t wonder what their kid is really doing in her room?
And why am I asking all these questions.
I think they are words a kid would know if they have a terminal illness and were allowed to learn about death and come to terms with it. I think a lot of grown-ups would call it a bit macabre for a little girl to be fascinated with death, even if it would be her own.
Yep. The kid is definitely in “imaginary friend” territory. Frankly, the parents of a terminally ill child tend to be genuinely grateful when that child isn’t trying to hurt itself, screaming, or crying constantly.
If that child is playing with an “imaginary friend,” the parents would most likely be ecstatic and would make special efforts not to interrupt.
I’d, if I was a parent of a terminally ill child, be happy and relieved to see my child happier and livelier. That’s for sure.
But if she told me she had an imaginary friend, I’d most likely try to see for myself just what kind of imaginary friend that was. Play-pretending aside, but hallucinations can be a clear warning sign for worsening conditions…
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Oswald just HAD to live where ENGLISH is spoken and written. Tough job – although imagine what he’d face in many other places…
Finland would have been nice.
Only the third hardest language to learn, they say. So in a way it would have been great if he had learned it from the get-go.
But the word choice… Chaos. Okay, that’s somewhat normal still. Not the most positive words, but yeah… Macabre? Rightou… Sure it’s there with the slightly harder prononciations, but really? Next in line we have massacre, disembowelment…
And why the parent’s don’t wonder what their kid is really doing in her room?
And why am I asking all these questions.
I think they are words a kid would know if they have a terminal illness and were allowed to learn about death and come to terms with it. I think a lot of grown-ups would call it a bit macabre for a little girl to be fascinated with death, even if it would be her own.
Yep. The kid is definitely in “imaginary friend” territory. Frankly, the parents of a terminally ill child tend to be genuinely grateful when that child isn’t trying to hurt itself, screaming, or crying constantly.
If that child is playing with an “imaginary friend,” the parents would most likely be ecstatic and would make special efforts not to interrupt.
I’d, if I was a parent of a terminally ill child, be happy and relieved to see my child happier and livelier. That’s for sure.
But if she told me she had an imaginary friend, I’d most likely try to see for myself just what kind of imaginary friend that was. Play-pretending aside, but hallucinations can be a clear warning sign for worsening conditions…