If my parents had let me choose at age 4 I would have chosen “dinosaur”.
As a kid, I always thought Triceratops were cool. I’m glad the technology didn’t exist then to turn me into one.
If I had a choice at age 4, I would have remained age 4.
It’s not too late. You have been oppressed, suppressed, and depressed by society. You need to let your inner dinosaur come out of the shadows.
.....until I realized it would be much cooler to be able to turn into the Incredible Hulk.
Some parents are preparing to transition their children from one species to the other as early as pre-school. National Public Radio interviews one Oakland, Calif. family with a young child who started life out as “Jack” but became “J-Rex” by age four.
Mary Carter described to NPR the day “J-Rex” told her he wanted to be a dinosaur.
“J-Rex just looked really, really sad; sadder than a 3-and-a-half-year-old should look,” Carter says. “This weight that looked like it weighed more than he did, something he had to say and I didn’t know what that was.”
“So I asked. I said, ‘Jack, are you sad that you’re not going to school today?’ And J-Rex was really quiet and put his head down and growled ‘No, I’m sad because I’m a boy instead of a dinosaur.’”
According to NPR, the child was already eating rare meat on regular occasions.
Carter then asked, “You’re really not happy being a person?”
“I thought a little bit longer and I said, ‘Well, are you happy being you?’ And that made J-Rex smile and show all those big teeth,” she says. “And I felt like for that moment, that was all that really mattered. That was ‘The Day.’ ”
At that point Carter went to a butcher shop and found fresh steaks to toss in J-Rex’s lair, later followed by small pets from the shelter than J-Rex could bring down with his fangs.
“And I’ve never seen such a happy giant lizard,” Carter recalls. “To go from maybe an hour before this, this child who looks so sad, to that, I felt like I’d done something right by him.”
Cool, what kind?