For littles to talk about difficult topics (Trigger Warning)

Hi to all the kids. All of us kids in here say that we are glad you are here.

Christine who's 8 and a half

Thanks Evan.
Yeah we do have stuff animals. Some belonged to our dogs. We didn't think of that. When we scared & sad at same time we don't think too good what to do. Go get them now.
Thank you
~Puddy

Hi Evan and Nadia and Christine and Puddy.

My legs don't hurt. They had blue color in em and now it's brown. Sometimes I like bruises, but then I have another name. I get angry or really sad and I like em. And sometimes it's scary when bigger ones have hurt the body although Im bigger one myself. That's why my head is weird. Sometimes it's scary because it makes me remeber stuff.

I don't remember swimming. I do remember boys playing football. I want to have my own football. I can do tricks with it cause I don't have anyone to play with. I do but they have same body and we can't be a team.

Someone bigger who is not me wants to have a basketball. But they say he's had other things so maybe I can have a ball before him.

#Jules or someone like him

Hi all!
Glad Jules your legs don't hurt. But no fun being scared. Are things are better?
~Puddy

Thanks Evan. That helped a lot. Our dogs went over the rainbow bridge. But we have stuffed dog with batteries to make it sound like dog snoring and side goes up and down. When everyone upset we forget what to do & have nobody to tell us. Thank you for help. Our stuffie dog is named Star Bright & she stayed with us all day.
~Puddy

Hi Robin,

What you said in the littles thread about not liking grownup stuff is something I was telling my T about last week. I HATE having to do grownup stuff all the time, and my T wanted to know more about what I like to do. I do know some things I like, but sometimes when I get time to play, it feels like I don't even know how, and like others are keeping me from having fun because they don't want to be doing it.

I do get to be out sometimes and talk to outside people and that helps me. Outside people don't seem to mind--they are usually really nice to me. Like people behind the counter in stores, or people showing us stuff, like on our trip. When we were in the cave on Monday, I got to be out for a little while, and that's when I picked up a rock to take with us. And then since everything was going ok, I got to stay out and find more rocks at the next beach.

But I only get to do stuff if it's sort of close to what a grownup would do. I wanted to go play in the sand with other kids at the restaurant last night, but it would have been where everyone was looking and stupid Sasha was wearing a skirt that was blowing around (I don't care--I hate wearing skirts!!). So I couldn't.

She says I got to snorkel in the afternoon, so it was only fair. And that I can go play in the sand later today maybe. I don't like all this taking turns stuff, because I'm never the one deciding whose turn it is.

Bobby

Hi to Bobby!

And it is hard when there are a lot of people in your body and you have to take turns. And harder when you are a kid and you have to pretend you are big. And we have 26 kids so we know.

We hope you get to do some fun stuff soon!

Joseph and other kids

Hi Bobby,

Yes. That is what I'm sad about.
Sometimes when you finally GET to play, it's like there is a block. Like a wall.
And you can't break through.
Sometimes I think it is because playing on your own is less fun than playing with a friend.
But I also feel like I am growing up and it feels bad.
I try to like the big things, but I also feel confused.
It's boring and sad, sometimes.

I don't know if I want to grow up, but it is not stoppable. It makes me feel like I get erased. I lose.
So maybe it is how Sarah feels and I just get some of those feelings now.
She's very invisible and bigger than me.

The bigs say I get to really play when we are home and the door is shut. But it is small and lonely.
I don't know if I want to.

Robin/Sarah

Hi Joseph and other kids,

I didn't say anything about pretending to be big. I don't have to pretend to be big. I can just be me, and people just see a grownup acting kind of young. They don't really see me, but sometimes they kind of know I'm there without knowing it, and they're nice to me.

I would go away instead of pretending to be big, and let someone else do it. I don't want to pretend to be someone else. We don't do that. We are each who we are, not someone else.

Hi Robin/Sarah,

Yeah--it's lonely to play alone. Sometimes it helps if we play kids music, but that helps the younger ones, not me. They can have a tea party with the stuffies and listen to the songs, but I don't really like Raffi music. Listening to my book helps me, because it's like someone is telling me a story. So I do that a lot.

Bobby

TheGangsAllHere wrote:Hi Joseph and other kids,

I didn't say anything about pretending to be big. I don't have to pretend to be big. I can just be me, and people just see a grownup acting kind of young. They don't really see me, but sometimes they kind of know I'm there without knowing it, and they're nice to me.

I would go away instead of pretending to be big, and let someone else do it. I don't want to pretend to be someone else. We don't do that. We are each who we are, not someone else.

Bobby

Okay. Thank you for explaining. Cuz sometimes we don't know stuff besides what we think we know. And it helps if people tell us cuz then we understand better.

Everybody in us is a LOT younger than our body. Even the big people. So we all have to pretend.

MD Kids