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Boned in a closet in olri ?? It was tight
Ok, I like Macalester a lot as a school. I like the people and the professors, but having just gone through (struggled through?) housing selection and class registration, res life and the registrar are kind of a fucking mess.
this school would be a better place without mac confessions, at least mac confessions as its ecosystem is right now. it's completely degenerated as a place for actual discussion
Lachlan Hinwood, Macalester is so fortunate you grace it with your interests, smile, and sensitivity. Thank you for listening
People with extreme cognitive disabilities (like some of those affected by Down's syndrome or severe dementia), make me very uncomfortable. My grandmother had Alzheimer's, and visiting her group assisted living place was super disturbing to me. Beautiful place and caring staff, but I had a patient following me and silently holding my hand and just staring at me, and grabbing my hand again when I pulled away and everyone was just like 'aw cute' and I was silently like get me the fuck away from this place
I would never want to hurt the feelings of people with cognitive disabilities or the people who love and care for them, but I do secretly fear being in their position. The thought of not being able to communicate intellectually with my child or dependent family member is terrifying to me.
So I know all that's super ableist. I've been reading anti-ableist stuff online in hopes of discovering personal ignorance and having a better view of things. And I totally agree that people with cognitive disabilities deserve to be treated with love and respect. But I still don't yet see how severe cognitive disabilities aren't a curse to be feared. Though I'm sure the internal mental lives of these people are wonderful and beautiful in ways I'll never understand, something about being in the same room as an adult who exists mentally in an alien world but exists physically mine still creeps me out =/
I adore my significant other so much that I've given up a lot (i.e. my academics) just to be with them. The mistakes I made these past years at Macalester are completely my fault though, and they are not to blame. I hope they can still love me even though they trusted me to take care of my shit, and I didn't. Anyone feeling the same? Any advice to give?
I have joked that I'd like to get my first kiss over with with a stranger at a Kagin or similar, so that when it was inevitably awkward and terrible, at least one of us wouldn't remember. I'm abroad, and doing things I wouldn't normally do at Mac, and the opportunity arose at a club. Damned if I didn't take it. It was pretty bad, but I'm really glad I did it.