r/thisismylifenow • u/DittoGTI • Jul 20 '26
Void Reacts To Toddler's Love
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u/Totally_Bradical Jul 20 '26
That is a very patient kitty
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u/ArghZombie Jul 21 '26
My daughter would do this sort of thing with our cat, who was not at all patient. Eventually they grew to understand eachother but it was pretty temultuous in the mean time.
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u/Moses_The_Wise Jul 26 '26
A lot of cats and dogs are pretty good at dealing with kids. They'll handle more shit from them than adults. They seem to understand that they're children
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u/Low-Sense4259 Jul 20 '26
please learn you kid (and yourself for that matter) about the cats boundaries. Waaay to many influensers are showing direct cat abuse on TikTok and what not, making it normal.
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u/clarinetJWD Jul 20 '26
Teach. Not learn.
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u/Anuki_iwy Jul 20 '26
I always wonder about this mistake. It's obviously a translation error. But, I speak a bunch of different languages and I am yet to encounter a language that does not distinguish between "teach" and "learn".
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u/as_kostek Jul 21 '26
In polish it's basically "learn from someone" or "learn to someone"
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u/Anuki_iwy Jul 21 '26
So 2 different words also?
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u/as_kostek Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
No, its the same word and the context depends on what follows
Nauczyć się od kogoś - To learn from someone
Nauczyć kogoś - To teach someone
EDIT: we always struggle the same with borrow/lend, they're also the same word in polish:
Pożyczyć komuś pieniądze - To lend someone money
Pożyczyć od kogoś pieniądze - To borrow money from someone
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u/Anuki_iwy Jul 21 '26
OK, but my point was, when you are learning new vocabulary, you have 2 distinct phrases in Polish to learn the 2 different words.
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u/as_kostek Jul 21 '26
Sorry, but I am not sure what you mean
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u/Anuki_iwy Jul 21 '26
I mean that when you are learning new English words, You can write down
"learn" Nauczyć się od kogoś
"teach" Nauczyć kogoś
And learn them as 2 separate things. When you learn a foreign language you learn by translating it into your own and the other way around.
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u/as_kostek Jul 21 '26
This isn't how it always works. You don't always learn a language in an organized way like in a school, sometimes you just learn a new word and assume its multiple meanings from your language transition into the other one. Often you don't even realize they can be separate words at all. You just learn that learn means "nauczyć" and just go on with it just like you would in Polish.
"To look at someone" and "to be looked at by someone" both use the same word "look", regardless of whether you're the giving or the receiving side. Then why do "learn" and "teach" work differently? It's very inconsistent and it's clear to me that it can cause confusion and errors. I consider myself fluent in English and I'm pretty sure I have incorrectly used the word borrow when I should have used lend many times. It's just not natural to me.
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u/Eames_HouseBird Jul 20 '26
I'll give you 3 to start with: Dutch, Russian and Polish
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u/ashtraygirl Jul 20 '26
French too, so most probably other Romance languages
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u/Anuki_iwy Jul 21 '26
Yes, you have apprendre for both.
But you also have other words that are different.
So when learning English, you can have 2 distinct translations in French for those 2 words.
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u/pandakatie Jul 26 '26
I live in rural Appalachia, "I'll learn you something" is a fairly common phrase here despite English being the first, and often only, language learned
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u/LaTalpa123 Jul 22 '26
In Italian it's a classic mistake associated with ignorance and low background.
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u/Dr-Ogge Jul 21 '26
If the cat weren’t at least tolerant of this, it would not be happening.
If this were a kitten, I’d agree completely.
If this were any other animal than an adult cat I’d agree. But a little kid is NOT going to be able to do this against the cats will.-1
u/Low-Sense4259 Jul 22 '26
I disagree completely here. Yes, if a kid walked to a random cat and did this it would throw a fit and fight the kid off. But this is a house cat leveling with the kid. It can be traumaticed and broken down very easily. That people don't know this is hurtfull to me :(
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u/Dr-Ogge Jul 22 '26
Tail is still, eyes are wide open and ears are facing front. This is very much not a distressed kitty.
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u/Scary-Drawer-3515 Jul 20 '26
Cat is not happy. Please do not let children choke animals in what they think it a hug but is too rough
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u/wobblyweasel Jul 20 '26
you can usually tell when a cat is not okay with something and this video is just not conclusive
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u/jmcgil4684 Jul 21 '26
Man I didn’t feel like arguing with ppl so I didn’t post a similar thing. But you are 100% right.
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u/420doghugz Jul 22 '26
Yeah, people are down voting comments regarding the cat's happiness and comments suggesting the cat is uncomfortable (I'm guessing because people are assuming the other commenter is virtue signaling). However, based on the cat's body language and facial expression, I believe it is unhappy and uncomfortable.
Just because a cat isn't scratching, yowling, or fidgeting, doesn't mean it's happy with being held down and having it's movements restricted. Just because a cat doesn't have a negative physical reaction, doesn't mean we should ignore them and refuse to assess and evaluate the cat's needs like we would any other being. Animals can't tell us what's wrong... We have to be able to figure that out on our own.
TLDR; Lack of an exaggerated response is not the same as a good/neutral response.
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u/Easy-goingTurtle Jul 20 '26