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Stop telling poor kids to be welders, mechanics, etc. You would never tell a rich kid to become a plumber. Stop limiting poor kids to jobs that won’t provide a middle-class life. Also stop recommending backbreaking work to poor kids in general it’s ableist and classist as fuck.
When your daydream consists of only already existing, well developed and thought out, three-dimensional fictional characters from a TV show and your one (1) random parame:
Me: Hey madd..? I kinda need to spend some time looking for a job… So it’d be nice if you left me alone for a while, okay? I’m just gonna.. Go over there and start looki-
Madd: *dragging me back by my hair* The only place you’re going is to your room where you’ll pace and daydream till your feet and legs hurt.
I wanna give up daydreaming so bad. I’ve been doing it for 6 years now and I feel like I’ve missed out on so many things. I would lie and say I felt sick when my parents and siblings wanted to go out and do things just so I could be left by myself so I could pace around my room without being interrupted. When all my friend where having sleepovers I would decline the offers because I wanted to be by myself so I could daydream without the fear of them judging me. I use to throw a tantrum whenever my headphones broke and I could not get new ones right away. I would skip out on band practice just so I could get a few more hour in. I’ve caused myself so much stress because I would rather daydream than do my homework/study. I just graduated high school and I almost missed my graduation because I wanted to stay home and daydream. I use to think it was no big deal that it wasn’t interfering with my life that I was not missing out on anything, but now looking back I realize that I’ve missed out on so many things. I loved that I had the ability to go and pretend to be someone who was popular, confident, selfless...everything that I wanted to be. Even when everyone else my age had stop having imaginary friends. I mean I can’t describe the feeling of daydreaming. I love doing it so much but when I stop at the end of the day and I realized all of the stuff I could have done if I was had not spent all day running around my room (I have to paint my floor every other month because I’ve walked so much the paint has came off). I feel like a complete idiot for wasting my day like that. I am starting college next spring and I’m planning to intern for NASA next summer so I need to stop thinking about my imaginary world and who I am there and focus more on me in this one. But everytime I try to stop i can’t because it’s just to hard. The longest I’ve went without daydreaming was a week and that was because I was stuck in a hotel room with my siblings, but even than I would daydream when I was in the shower, in bed, or the car. I just want to try and stop for good or at least where it stops interfering with my social life.
person: alexander hamilton... uh, he was president, right?
me: yeah no
person: are you sure?
me: definitely
person: how are you so sure?
me: ummm
my brain: NEVER GONNA BE PRESIDENT NOW never gonna be president now NEVER GONNA BE PRESIDENT NOW never gon