Make her cry again / Use her teddy bear to wipe up the ice cream cone she dropped
A Retard girl post.
School photo day. Your mum licked her thumb and flattened your fringe at the gate, so the official record of Year 3 is a child with a damp, furious parting. She still ordered the large print. The wedding photographer says "just be natural, laugh like nobody's watching". Ninety guests are watching. Your laugh comes out like a sneeze. It's the one they frame. That photo of you at seven, no front teeth, cardigan buttoned wrong, has been on your nan's mantelpiece for 26 years. Your graduation photo is in a drawer. She says the old one suits the frame. The passport photo booth at the post office. No smiling allowed. You come out looking like someone arrested for something they definitely did. It's valid for ten years. **Why it caught on:** it's a real little girl with Down syndrome smiling in a family photo, and the page under it, named with a slur, mostly mocked her disability. Nothing about her is the joke; if anything, she had a far better photo day than the rest of us.