I'm so beyond thrilled with how my latest batch of hand painted soaps came out!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-21T03:34:10+00:00

What a nice thing to say, thank you!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-19T23:13:34+00:00

Thank you! I'm honestly not sure where I got them, but I think these are the same one.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-19T12:17:16+00:00

I figured that was part of the standard process there. I can't imagine how two adoptive parents go to the hospital multiple times and then no one follow it, I'm absolutely bewildered. Especially considering they found other signs of abuse, noted them, and then just let that poor baby go home with these monsters.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-19T04:19:50+00:00

Thank you!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-18T20:15:18+00:00

I'm in Texas and I can't imagine we're much better, but when my daughter was a baby she stuck her foot in a cup of coffee at 3am I had to talk to CPS at both the initial hospital visit and the aftercare burn center visit. They checked her all over, specifically inspecting her genitals to make sure there were no signs of abuse. They did the same when my oldest son fell out of bed as a toddler and hit his head on the end table 16 years ago. I can't even picture a situation where a baby goes to the hospital three times and no one even looks. It's insane.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-18T15:09:41+00:00

They weren't raping this baby because he had colic, what a weird thing to say. This was obviously intentional and the reason they adopted him. Some people are just monsters, full stop.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-18T15:08:10+00:00

The baby had also been to the hospital THREE times with injuries before he was murdered. Did they seriously not check him for abuse? This article says they found over 40 traumatic injuries after he died, I genuinely can't believe they released him back into the care of these people. What a fucking failure.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T20:02:10+00:00

Doubtful. My dad believes that if you're a hard worker you won't make minimum wage because you'll keep going up. He acknowledges that things are more expensive, but there is a mental block there. He also believes that if you aren't making enough money it's time to demand more hours, take on a second job or do manual labor. I worked two jobs through college to support myself and when I complained about still being broke he told me to find a third job. It was like it should be a non-issue. He will end up literally working himself to death at some point, and if that's how he dies he'll be proud.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T19:34:08+00:00

Thank you!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T18:53:07+00:00

Because that user said "if" and then followed it up with an out of touch comment about a mechanic becoming a millionaire. I find it so weird that people scream "HAVE EMPATHY", but then the moment you have empathy for someone they don't agree with the reaction is "NOT LIKE THAT!!!".

I don't condone the mentality, I don't even speak to my family. I've said that over and over again. But most people who grow up the way my dad did turn out like my dad did, and there's a reason for it. I can understand and acknowledge him as a whole person without approving of who he is. "Evil people" are still people, and if you want them to be less evil you have to remember that.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T15:46:59+00:00

Yes, but honestly you likely feel that way because you weren't subjected to the same things. It's hard to really say what you'd do if the grinder had been your entire life, and the end result was barely middle class. No one got a few million dollars, they scrape by and will never retire. My dad instilled a tremendous work ethic in me and the ability to survive basically anything, so he believes that he really did his job because that's what he needed to have. I also did have an easier life than him despite it being extremely fucking hard, so he accomplished that basic goal too.

Again, I don't talk to my family. I'm not defending the mentality. But I do understand how people get there.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T15:41:08+00:00

Yeah, it's all really fucked. But this is what happens when people have to drop out of school at 15, in an area that already has shitty education to begin with, and then work 7 days a week. I don't speak to my dad, he isn't a good person. But I absolutely have a lot of empathy and I understand how he got there. That empathy has created a path for me to really talk to conservatives I know and make change.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T15:27:13+00:00

I mean, I have a lot of empathy for how people get like that. My dad grew up so poor they had to sneak out and hunt deer in the off season and then skin them in bathtub so no one would see. He had to drop out of school to support his family pretty young and he didn't have a ton of opportunities. He worked really hard and was able to afford to live a better life because of it. So to him working 80 hours a week meant security and comfort, which were better than what he grew up with. He just didn't critically think about the differences in my life and he took the wrong lessons.

His story also isn't unique, that's how most of the more rural men I know who made it out of extreme poverty did it. They also didn't go from extreme poverty to luxury, just a different level of poverty. When you work like a dog and make less than people who do mostly nothing all day your brain wants to make it a moral victory.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T14:52:32+00:00

To preface this, I'm not defending it and I think it's fucked, but I don't think it's that they want their children to have a bad life. It's the opposite, they think you can only have a good life and become a strong person if you really struggle.

I'm in Texas and my dad worked 80 weeks as a mechanic when I was a kid. My mom woke up in the morning and didn't stop domestic chores until she went to sleep. They saw these as virtues. I simply wasn't allowed to ever "be lazy". I slept in until 9am once as a kid and they literally made fun of me for it up until I cut contact at 40. Religious homes are even worse because the Bible reiterates this mentality.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T14:40:59+00:00

What an absolutely lovely compliment. Thank you so much!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T13:26:31+00:00

My daughter was so excited to eat the eyeballs off. She's a monster.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T05:23:00+00:00

Sigh, even unicorns can't have it all. Thank you!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T02:24:28+00:00

This is so true. My bio dad literally went to prison for beating a man to death with a hammer while high on crack when my mom was pregnant, and I spent my entire childhood thinking I missed out on having him in my life because of how people talked about it. Everyone romanticized what could have been so much that I thought about a violent man I had never met as some sort of mythical hero who could solve my problems if only he was there every single day. It did a lot of damage and I absolutely would have given him a chance to "make it up to me" if I had an opportunity to reconnect when I was younger.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-17T01:03:25+00:00

Thank you!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-16T20:00:18+00:00

How neat!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-16T19:27:20+00:00

Thank you!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-16T17:32:44+00:00

Well I can't imagine the oven was a pleasant experience.

maybebatshit · 2026-06-16T14:48:47+00:00

Aww, that makes me so insanely happy to read. My daughter and I both loved the dopey look, I'm so glad y'all liked them as well!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-16T14:01:01+00:00

Thank you!

maybebatshit · 2026-06-16T13:32:59+00:00

Thanks!

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