Daily reminder that “Missing Person” posts are a common and often effective method that abusers use to find their victims that have run away from them. Also used to find people in the witness protection program.
If you see a “missing person” post with a number that is not just 911 on it, be very wary. And if you do see someone who is supposedly missing, call the police, NOT the number provided on the post. I trust the police as little as anyone but they’ll at least be able to tell you if that person is actually missing and it has less of a chance of giving information to a possible abuser.
A couple of red flags I’ve noticed:
Abusers claiming their victims are mentally ill or schizophrenic, to explain why they might not want to come back
Abusers giving any excuse to explain why their victims may not come back really
Abusers telling you not to approach their victims if you see them, or limit your communication with them
Abusers telling you not to mention them to their victims at all
Abusers claiming that their victims aren’t safe with their family or friends
Abusers claiming their victims are being threatened away from them
(Feel free to add on)
Add-ons to the list of red flags from my mother, a psychologist who has worked with victims of domestic abuse:
Abusers claiming their victim has a history of self-harm that leaves bruises is always a red flag (except in the case of autistic children, but even then, call 911, not the abuser)
Abusers claiming their (POC) victim doesn’t understand English and so you shouldn’t try to communicate with them/trust anything they say is not uncommon for human traffickers
Abusers claiming their victim has a history of making things up for attention or to get their way, tacitly implying you shouldn’t listen to them when they express fear or disclose their abusive situation to you
Posters lacking a last name are inherently not to be trusted. The lack of a surname is there to keep you from looking the person up in other databases and finding out they’ve been listed as missing by their family/the police.
Posters that put any character smears – mental illness, drug use, etc. – out about the victim are trying to make you predisposed to not communicating with or trusting the victim so you won’t believe anything they say. Treat this as a flashing neon red flag and call the police.
My mother would also like to note that taking a picture of the poster or tearing it down and turning it in to police can be very useful to them when they’re trying to build cases against abusers so if that’s at all possible for you, by all means do it.
i heard u guys like carpeted bathrooms so i made a whole post of carpeted bathrooms.
i had clients suggest having carpet in their Master Bath in this year of our lord 2018 & it was The Worst
Carpet in a bathroom is the worst idea ever. Sure, it may sound cozy but in reality water gets everywhere because toilets overflow and water can splash out of showers and what you (I’m guessing) thought was going to be a soft and warm place to put your feet is actually a cold and soggy mess. Plus over time the water weakens the floor if you don’t have any waterproofing layers and makes it actually dangerous. Oh, and speaking of the toilet? Remember that bathrooms are messy places. Guess what happens if you have kids running around or you get really sick and don’t make it to the toilet? Carpets stain. And you can’t sweep a carpet either – you have to lock yourself in the bathroom with your vacuum cleaner trying to vacuum a soggy carpet in what’s usually a futile effort anyway and the whole time you’re wondering what the heck was wrong with the people who built your house and why they ever thought this was a good idea.
That woman is infuriatingly immature. (If this is even real.)
Kindly remove the stick from betwixt thine buttocks
Well, maybe you don’t have autism and thus don’t get anxious almost to the point of a panic attack when people disobey rules and requests just to be jerks, and not for a just cause. And maybe you don’t have extreme sensitivity to sound and get sick to the stomach at even the thought of all those people being woken up in the middle of the night by someone’s obnoxious loud music.
Oh my fuck none of this is that deep. If the very idea of people joking around gives you a fucking panic attack I truly cannot fathom how you function on a day-to-day basis. Also you’re not even reading it correctly because the texts in gray are from her boss, not her, so he was the one buying the Cheetos and shit. I really don’t understand why people this damn sensitive even bother with an Internet connection.
but thems WOMEN, and NOT WHITE, and ONE IS WEARING SOMETHING THAT SMELLS LIKE MINORITY
Congress finally found the secret formula of making people slobber all over your boots: minority bingo. What corruption? What kickbacks? What government conspiracies? Pretty brown lady have scarf on head ooga ooga vagina person do the Congress yay!
To me the funniest thing about Sia obscuring her face with a wig and using a little girl as a music video stand-in is that… she was in established singer-songwriter before she started doing that? We know what she looks like?
Oh cool wig it’s real mystery who-
Oh
Right.
She even released albums before
Also, on a completely unrelated note, fans of contemporary Christian music might remember Peter Furler, former lead singer of the Christian rock group Newsboys.
Me and my husband didnt grow up ever believing in the magical santa claus of yore so we arent planning on investing or teaching any of that crap. (I was also terrified of santa when I was a kid, like tons of nightmares and stuff, so my parents didnt ever push santa at all)
She’s going to learn about the saint and we might celebrate his feast day, but apart from that, Christmas has always been celebrated in both our families as solely about Jesus and that’s how we plan on raising her!
Plus why would I spend money and a ton of effort buying my daughter a bunch of lovely gifts and then give all the credit to a man whose name shares all the same letters as Satan
Honestly a man trying to go and essentially colonize — through Christian conversion — an island of less than 100 people (who have not interacted with other people in YEARS who do not speak English and just want to be left alone) ending up dead is the most karmic thing that could have happened and imo he got what he deserved. White people thinking only with their colonist brains will lead to white people ending up dead and the fewer white colonists in this world the better.
Dude was asian though. Lmao way to go OP, you just generalized a whole race and essentially just literally white washed a dude’s race. Congrats OP, this qualifies you for being a racist
“Trying to colonize” fucking how? How was one dude going to single-handedly colonize an entire tribe? He wasn’t there on behalf of a government or anything. And yeah, he wasn’t white. Way to jump to half baked dumbass assumptions 🙄
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