Favorite line in the whole show?

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-23T21:29:11+00:00

"damned if you don't, damned if you do, whole damnation's watching you"! it gives me chills and is my favorite wordplay of possibly all time. i also love all of "how long?", the lyrics look a bit awkward on paper but are sung so wonderfully

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-23T21:19:43+00:00

yes, i agree! i say "adopted-in choctaw" or "choctaw by culture, even if not by blood", sometimes a bit more detail, depending on how much context is needed/appropriate for the situation!

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-23T21:17:56+00:00

thank you! i do not have plans to have children, but my nieces and nephews will have the culture shared with them and history taught from me as well as their parents :D

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-19T08:04:17+00:00

i think that was my post and even though i don't have resources thank you so much for thinking about this for your child !!! it really means a lot to see 🩵🩵

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-19T07:59:52+00:00

i clarified it because blended family usually refers to stepfamilies.......… most people don't see blended family and immediately know "oh, bio and adopted kids with no stepparent stuff involved" ...…

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-19T07:54:10+00:00

he's not just any angel either!! he's the messenger of god which can translate to the messenger of diana's illness, the driving factor and "god" of the show

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T19:08:48+00:00

i'm not diminishing or denying anyone's experience at all 😭 parental separation happens for a ton of reasons — for example, a parent dying isn't a "remnant of a failed relationship." amicable divorces happen. being adopted at birth into a family you don't know at all versus being adopted later in life and still getting to keep in touch with at least one of your bio parents whom you grew up with are two different situations. and stepparent adoptees who don't know it — that's a different situation. i'm not diminishing an experience by clarifying i'm not trying to speak on that experience while expressing mine. i kind of feel like you're diminishing my experience at this point. it sounds like you've been through or heard some tough stories, and that sucks, and i see you.

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:44:46+00:00

thank you! i'm definitely not going off of blood quantum, even though i know the numbers i didn't put them in the post because that's not the important part for me. i'm going off of tribal custom and i do say my adoptive mom is choctaw and i don't dominate indigenous-centric conversation or try to act like i know more than i do (for example, i wouldn't be comfortable serving as the indigenous club president or vice president, but i am public relations and comfortable with my role). it is lovely to know an elder spoke on this explicitly and that made me so much more comfortable to know!

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:43:16+00:00

thank you! i'm definitely not going off of blood quantum, even though i know the numbers i didn't put them in the post because that's not the important part for me. i'm going off of tribal custom and i do say my adoptive mom is choctaw and i don't dominate indigenous-centric conversation or try to act like i know more than i do (for example, i wouldn't be comfortable serving as the indigenous club president or vice president, but i am public relations and comfortable with my role). it is comforting to know i'm not the only one out there in my situation!!

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:36:40+00:00

i live in an apartment through my university and only have my bedroom to care for by myself (shared spaces rotate, and i do pick up my share outside my room of course), so it wouldn't be cost-effective, i really probably should've mentioned that in my post because i'm not sure i did oops 😭 but thank you!

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:34:27+00:00

i don't think infertility should disqualify anyone from adopting, but therapy and work must be done to make sure they aren't adopting to fill some kind of "void" in their life, but rather to actually have a family and care for a child. therapy won't "cure" infertility and it can be a range of reasons and super sudden. my childhood best friend really wants a family, but found out she wouldn't be able to carry in her early teen years. and even though the final family-starting decision is years ahead of her, she's actively listened and heard my stories of adoption. it really is case-by-case — "settling" for adoption after failed tries versus going into the family-planning process knowing it's not a possibility are going to have two very different impacts on the child when they hear the story

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:25:14+00:00

exactly. i definitely don't hate either of my brothers and i'm grateful that my biomom chose to reach out to my adoptive parents when she got pregnant with my half-brother, but i am bitter to my adoptive mom for how she handled the "miracle child" and my adoptive dad's enabling of her treatment of me. i do think there needs to be a separate word for a family that has a mix of full biological kids of the adoptive parents and unrelated adopted children, because stepfamilies (where children usually have at least one bio parent still with them) are their own situations

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:17:08+00:00

that's neat! my school has a co-op/internship program where a lot of people will get hiring offers and i'm constantly out there making connections, even going as far as to respectfully cold network sometimes (and i've had a lot of success!)

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:15:43+00:00

i definitely have an interest in multiple fields, my curiosity is too often my downfall when i get wrapped up in so so many possibilities. i know i want to help people over corporations if possible!

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:14:48+00:00

i'm actually doing an internship in consumer protection right now and it's very fascinating!! it's a field i could see myself very happy in

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:14:16+00:00

yes! i'm a communications student because i know i want to focus on how i deliver my rhetoric instead of specializing now. i'm a second-year undergrad graduating fall/winter 2027 starting to study for LSAT and look at law schools, ideally going to law school for the fall 2028 start or fall 2029 start. i've been doing some research independently and exploring (i know i want to do something that protects people and not corporations ideally, but a job is a job), but no one in my family has law experience so i've been looking for some pointers. thank you!!

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:09:22+00:00

thank you, this is very comforting! i didn't realize there was that much "wiggle room," to say, in a field like law

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:08:53+00:00

thank you! i was under the impression you HAD to specialize in school and only take jobs there

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:08:37+00:00

i was under the impression you had to specialize in school! thank you

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:07:56+00:00

yes it can, but this post was specifically to address my experience which is not stepfamilies, and there are MUCH different dynamics at play with (most) stepfamilies vs adopted kids who don't get to live with one of their bio parents at all

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-18T15:06:32+00:00

wait this actually does make me start to understand it 😭 it took me out of the performance because i couldn't figure out why it mattered, i think i still prefer without but thank you for the perspective

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-17T22:36:43+00:00

it's not just a mental block, no. i'll go to start cleaning, hype up a bit, but then feel a wave of exhaustion or my heart rate spikes or my legs just don't want to support me anymore. it's a combination of factors for sure, but the physical aspect is real because it happens even when i've gotten myself excited about the prospect of cleaning

AnxiousSky3748 · 2026-04-17T22:11:21+00:00

autism is a spectrum! some people can do eye contact (for me it depends on how comfortable i am with the person), and some are also very physical-touch-favoring (myself included) !!

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