u/OcieDeeznuts

I’m an elementary school special ed para (hoping to eventually be a special ed teacher.) I normally work with neurodivergent kids who are verbal but have some learning needs, but I have a summer job at extended school year, so it tends to be mostly higher-needs kids who will regress without the additional school. One of the kids I’m working with is a 6-year-old who has really high needs, I think it’s an IDD/autism combo. Totally nonverbal, no AAC use yet, knows maybe 2-3 signs, hard to get her to sit and complete or pay attention to anything, hard to decipher what she actually likes or is interested in, hits and bites when she’s mad.

So far our routine has been, we try to get her to do little puzzles or similar tasks, then we have a motor break - typically using this platform swing in the sensory room, then she jumps on the little trampoline, then we go for a walk around the school with her on this adaptive trike thing.

Long story short, somewhere in there I was shuffling through my Spotify to see if there was any music she vibed with, and she was neutral on a few things… but she IMMEDIATELY loved “I Love You, I’m Sorry”.

And then she loved a bunch of the other Gracie songs I showed her.

I’m not exaggerating when I say: the only times I’ve seen her smile or laugh so far (instead of looking neutral or annoyed) is when Gracie’s music is on.

If I play “I Love You, I’m Sorry”, she stays on the swing for the whole song. (If that song isn’t on, she’s done in 15 seconds, haha.)

I actually showed her how to hit the plus sign on Spotify on my phone if she likes a song and she did 🥹 for a few songs now.

It’s also so charming because like, that feels so on brand for a 6 year old girl in 2026? Like of course, girl. Of course you love Gracie Abrams.

A friend of mine recently died after a 6 year battle with cancer. She was someone who always truly lived life to the fullest, like even long before her diagnosis she was always doing all the fun and interesting things that it seemed like everyone talked about but few people did. We went to arts camp together as teens and kept in touch for nearly 20 years. Because she was one of my original theater kid friends, the song “Long Live” really reminds me of her.

Do you know of any songs with a similar message and feeling? Maybe a bit bittersweet but not sad, something that says “you lived life to the fullest, we had a great time together, we made amazing memories, something is coming to a close but we made the most of the time we had.”

Any genre works, but I especially like country, folk/americana type stuff, pop, rock (especially classic rock type stuff), indie, some pop punk.

Thanks everyone 🫶

She found it hot

Then said something later about me thinking about “fucking (her) with (my) big cock”

I regretted to inform her that it was actually extremely average sized in my mind

But was flattered that she thought I had BDE

/uj yes this actually happened and I knew of zero other places to post about it 💀

I just found out Kristian Bush (guy from Sugarland)’s favorite band is MUNA.

Trans man lesbians are now automatically valid because at least one cis man lesbian exists, we can stop discoursing about it now.

Anyone else have this as their favorite song on the album? As a millennial who’s loved Billy Joel since I was a small child, I’m very into it.