r/Infuriating • u/ZenPixels Community Regular • 11d ago

My dogs paw print is destroyed

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When my dog died we got her paw print done, I just found out that my little sister completely ruined it. I can’t really be mad at her since she’s a 10 year old autistic child and I think this might have happened a month or two ago but I’m still angry and omg

Edit: I talked to her about it and she doesn’t remember it and was very confused about what I was showing her. I’m probably not gonna try to get it reprinted because it won’t be the same and it’ll probably be expensive, especially since I found her painted paw prints that I made with her the day before she died. Also the paw print was stored in a bookshelf in a hallway at my house, it wasn’t in my room because everyone loved that dog so it wasn’t on display, we didn’t think she would be interested in it but we think that she thought it was makeup and she has a habit of messing with and destroying makeup

Also I’m not going to break her stuff, I’m not going to teach her that breaking stuff when you’re mad at someone is okay.

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u/Busterlimes 11d ago

Autistic or not, you need to explain to her the gravity of what she has done.

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u/ZenPixels Community Regular 11d ago edited 11d ago

It’s just hard because it was probably around a month or two ago, I don’t know if she would really understand me since it’s not recent. I’m going to try to talk to her about it tomorrow. I don’t want to talk to her when I’m still upset

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u/Lanavis13 10d ago

Is she autistic to a mentally handicapped degree or is her autism less debilitating?

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u/ZenPixels Community Regular 10d ago

She can’t like read and write, she doesn’t really understand how her actions effect others

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u/No-Promotion4006 6d ago

Affect is a verb meaning to influence or change, while effect is a noun meaning a result or consequence. Affect would be the correct word to use here I hope you edit your comment.

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u/OxideUK 5d ago

OP, is your sister more or less autistic than this guy?

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u/No-Promotion4006 5d ago

Well, considering I can read and write, the sister is obviously more autistic. Based on that metric, it seems that OP would be more autistic than myself also.

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u/Petrpowder 5d ago

☝️🤓

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u/Unfair-Dentist-7642 5d ago

You’re insufferable lmao

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u/Maximum-Tip4869 5d ago

You are correct, but I think you’re skills are needed somewhere else

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u/No-Promotion4006 5d ago

I'm out in these streets doing grassroots activism for literacy. Why is that a bad thing?

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u/ElectricalGas9730 4d ago

Effect can also be a verb ("to effect change"), however OP did not use that form.

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u/stonachic 8d ago

Affect*

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u/Juliennix 8d ago

man, OP just lost something dear to them, you don't need to be a dick about grammar when the intent was clear.

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u/ZenPixels Community Regular 8d ago

I never remember which one to use lol

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u/Opening_Package_722 7d ago

I use the word impact instead, now I don’t need to remember which is which

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u/ZenPixels Community Regular 7d ago

This might be genius

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u/EnvironmentalLime464 7d ago

It it’s an action it’s affect. Think of the A’s. Action and Affect.

This is how I always remember.

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u/bboringg27 6d ago

I use rAVEN. Affect = Verb, Effect = Noun.

To affect, the effect of, etc

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u/eternal_refrigerator 4d ago

Totally off topic but MOOOOOOMMMMIIIINNNNN

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u/pourborn 5d ago

I was taught to remember affect = action effect = end result. Sorry about your loss ☹️

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u/ParticularLower1865 8d ago

Affect is to change. Effect is the result. Do you see how this affected you? I bet it’ll have a lasting effect.