When I first saw this I realized I had assumed Dr. Pepper (beyond the drink) was a man, but I think for me it was because as a kid I remember commercials with a deep voiced man and my dumb kid brain thought that was the doctor.
Dr Pepper is obviously a middle aged plum in a lab coat.
Pretty sure Dr. Pepper’s pronouns are so/da, no need to assume their gender
I think you meant to write “da gender” ; )
I’m so gender, I’m da gender.
That’s why Mr. Pibb emphasized clarity to avoid misgendering. He actually has a Ph. D. in archaeology, but made the humble choice to still go by Mr.
What a stand-up guy.
Pretty sure they came out as Xtra a long time ago, so you are, indeed, misgendering Pibb Xtra.
Xtra is a gender?
Fuck I have a lot of forms to update because that’s clearly my gender.
How many licks does it take to discover Dr. Pepper’s gender?
The world may never know.
hawt
That unironically might work tho Like getting their mind off of the current thought spiral can be pretty helpful sometimes
honestly, this is not a terrible idea
if you see someone at the verge of a panic attack that means they’re fully in their head spiraling - you can try to calm them down the normal way, but you can also try to force them out of their own head and ground them by saying something weird, ideally a question so their mind can latch onto it. It won’t always work, but it might shock them just the right amount to ground them!
The idea of someone just sobbing then you come up and yell “WHATS THE OPPOSITE OF YELLOW ON A RUBIKS CUBE!?!?” at them is so funny to me.
I think it’d probably work on me.WHATS THE OPPOSITE OF YELLOW ON A RUBIKS CUBE!?!?
White.
Can you imagine my fiancée’s dissapointment when I showed her my “finger tricks”…
Don’t yell if you don’t want to get assaulted. Some of us are having flashbacks with our panic attacks.
I was told that one way to help a young child break out of a tantrum is to ask them an odd question, something like “What color shoes are you wearing?” It does seem to work sometimes, usually by annoying them so much that they forget what they were upset about in the first place. I can well see it working for someone who needs to get out of a mental spiral.
I was actually asked this as a kid while on the verge of a meltdown, it annoyed me so much it pushed me over the edge and I responded with throwing a chair. I then started swearing and looking for anything that could be used as a melee weapon, I settled for a table. So yeah your mileage may vary when it comes to autistic kids on that one.
Oof, yeah I could see how that could happen. I guess you really should know the kid before trying something like that. I usually find that making mine laugh is enough to start to reset them, and then helping them calm down is a lot easier. Also, a question like that is definitely for small kids, not those who can fling furniture.
I was 7 or 8, but that didnt matter too much since I had already started puberty.
Reminds me of the “make an angry child laugh” trick. Which I absolutely loathed as a child, because it worked but it also wasn’t taking my emotions seriously.
Sometimes their emotions have gone so far past reasonable that the first thing you need to do is bring them back to the point you can actually reason with them. After that, yes it’s really vital to take their emotions seriously, they need to understand them and trust that the people around them will take them seriously, but they also haven’t yet built the skills to moderate their own feelings, so sometimes you need to add those externally.
This Dr. Pepper? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_Schwartz
Dr. Pepper’s pronouns are we/us, because 🎵 Dr. Pepper you’re a part of me 🎵
Dr. Pepper is actually Kurisu Makise
Damm I never considered that. I always thought it was a drink
Bro maybe if you weren’t so prejudiced you’d be willing to accept that women can be beverages
Times are changing too fast for me. I grew up in a world where it was Mr. Coke and Ms. Pepsi.
I’ve always thought of Dr Pepper as either a can or a company, never a person, let alone specifically enough to have a gender.
It’d make sense because Dr. Pepper is gross.
This is actually a very good way of dealing with people in an emotional state: Say something so off the fucking wall and irrelevant that it snaps people out of it.
I get that everyone’s shit posting here, but the answer is that it’s believed Dr. Pepper as a name might be directly referencing an actually Dr. who lived in the area the drink was invented in, but we’re honestly not sure about that at all
Its entirely possible that it was called that because it was sold in pharmacies and was “spicy” (thus Dr. Pepper), or another alternative I’ve heard is basically that idea but it has caffeine so it meant Dr. Speed, basically
All that to say: Dr. Pepper is gender fluid, dipshits, I’ll see myself out
