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My mom doesn't believe in mental illness, yet genuinely believes in superstitions like auspicious dates. And no amount of proof or argument can sway her.
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Noelle! What is this?!
Noelle looks up to see her Mom holding the sample packet of pads and tampons she got from school.
Oh, that's from the Sex Ed talk we had in class. The girls received a presentation about menstruation.
The school gave you this?!
Using a tampon is the same as having sex!
That's not what the teacher giving the talk said...
It's just a tool for absorbing blood.
No! You'll be able to feel it the whole time, and it goes into...
Her mom can't even bear to say it.
It's the same as having sex with a man.
The woman giving the talk said plenty of girls use it.
American girls get their periods so early because they're thinking sexual thoughts at a young age.
It's not natural. You shouldn't be thinking about these things until you're married.
After throwing away the immoral tampons, her mom goes off to the living room to watch a Chinese variety show.
It's hard growing up trusting very little of your parents' judgment.
My mom doesn't believe in mental illness, yet genuinely believes in superstitions like auspicious dates. And no amount of proof or argument can sway her.
Is Chinese society just decades behind the West? I've yet to meet a white person whose mind works this way.
Noelle glances over at the show her mom is watching.
Colorful words and cartoons fly across the screen as cheesy sound effects play.
So tacky...
It's one of those shows where they interview a panel of foreigners who can barely speak Mandarin.
Noelle cringes as silly "boing" noises are overlaid over the host's jokes.
They're just laughing at the foreigners for not understanding the questions they've been asked...
Why is this popular? It's so juvenile and embarrassing.
I feel like I'm losing brain cells as I listen to this.
Disgusted, Noelle returns to scrutinizing the impenetrable paragraph of Chinese she's supposed to be analyzing for homework.
What am I even going to use Chinese for? Watching drivel like that?
I have no interest in the backwards culture that produced my pathetic, narrow-minded parents.
When a commercial break comes on, she throws down her pencil.
I want to quit Chinese school.
Her mom whirls around from the couch, alarmed.

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My mom doesn't believe in mental illness, yet genuinely believes in superstitions like auspicious dates. And no amount of proof or argument can sway her.
My mom doesn't believe in mental illness, yet genuinely believes in superstitions like auspicious dates. And no amount of proof or argument can sway her.
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Speaker: NoelleT
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game/4_noelle.rpy:143
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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translations.pot, string 3701