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   The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ (pawpower@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 07:43:28 JST The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️

   Sometimes my kids like to ask me interesting questions out of left field. Today's question was "Miss Rox'E, are you popular?" It took me a moment to answer because I think popularity stops mattering once you leave high school at least it does to me so I don't actually know! And I told her that, and she seemed very surprised. It just struck me how different things are once you leave high school. I told her that having good friends is more important than being popular.

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     👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle (fragglemuppet@fandom.ink)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 07:43:27 JST 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

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     • Baxaphobia

     @baxaphobia @Pawpower Right, and people telling you "oh, you shouldn't care about that stuff!" can actually serve to make it worse. I agree that having good friends is more important, but you've gotta have the chance to meet people first.

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     Baxaphobia (baxaphobia@caneandable.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 07:43:28 JST Baxaphobia

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     @Pawpower That's actually a pretty insightful question from your student. Popularity is a real issue in high school and even in college. And often kids with disabilities don't even get the chance to even experience good friends let alone popularity.

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     The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ (pawpower@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 10:30:21 JST The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️

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     • Baxaphobia

     @Fragglemuppet @baxaphobia Yes it just caught me off guard because popularity is something I give 0 mental bandwidth to but also I remember how desperate I was at that age to be popular. Also these kids needs to ask someone who is not me these questions because I never feel like I do the answers justice.

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     👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle (fragglemuppet@fandom.ink)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 10:30:21 JST 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

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     • Baxaphobia

     @Pawpower @baxaphobia That's fair.