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dad lore is crazy because i’ll be going about my day and suddenly remember that when my dad was younger he was working and got stoned with some of his friends, and the employers would leave out a loaf of bread and peanut butter unless they got hungry, and my dad ate the WHOLE LOAF because he had the munchies. with peanut butter too
One thing that will never not be hilarious to me is my mom once telling me my dad hadn't met any gay people before meeting my mom and her gay brother and her gay friends.
What my mother meant to tell me was that my FATHER who has a group of UNMARRIED MALE FRIENDS OVER FIFTY, who has watched the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW LIVE at least twice, who is into DnD, Star Trek and Tolkien, has NEVER, EVER met a gay person in his life before meeting you.
And the worst part? He probably believes that too!!!
My point is that you've met a lot of gay people, you just didn't know they were gay.
Forget about dad lore what about grandma lore. I've known this woman for eighteen years and no one had thought to tell me she was engaged to a magician before breaking it off and then meeting my grandpa and finally marrying him. Fucking wild.
My dad used to read it to me and my brother. He had to start again twice because we'd go on holidays and forget the whole plot cause he didn't take the book with him. We managed to get through it in the end.
for context: I read the hobbit first over the course of two years when I was like 13, but I'm only now starting to read lotr. having a blast tho!
anyways, reblog if you feel like it 🙌🏻
my dad just came back from shopping within autism hours where they don't play music or announcements and dim the lights at the local mall and he said it was the best shopping experience he'd had in a while.
Now I know people who aren't autistic also benefit from a non-overstimulating environment. But when I tell you I got a vivid flashback to me telling my therapist I might be autistic and since there's a genetic component maybe one of my parents is and she was like "and which parent do you thinn exhibits these [autistic] behaviours?" and I said my dad and she said "Yes that's also what I thought."
Everyday I rue the one therapy session my dad went to when he was younger and he sat there in silence for one hour. Dad you could've changed my life.
I feel like sometimes 2012 Leo would do that one thing dads do where someone will be talking with him and then he'll just randomly drop the most jaw-dropping toe-curling heart-wrenching piece of his Dad Lore™️ that they'll ever hear and nobody will believe them when they're told that it happened to him