11/29/24 - When I wanted to hit him, he pulled out a shield out of nowhere.
A blogger posts a text exchange between two Chinese immigrants in America:
Wang: “I’ve been deported. I’m at the airport not, not at the gate yet. But not everyone is getting deported. We had to register with our passports last night, and we got a plane ticket, and we got driven to the airpot on a bus this morning. There were all kinds of people on the bus.”
Da: “XD”
Wang: “I don’t know what to do. Can I still run at this point? I’m past security now. There’s a couple of Indians talking to themselves.”
Da: “Just run for it.”
Wang: “I’m too scared. They gave us a pamphlet, saying that if we run, we go to jail.”
Da: “Are they gonna shoot if you run?”
Wang: “I haven’t even sold my car yesterday. I thought it was just a registration and nothing was going to happen.”
Wang: “No, I’m just scared I’ll get caught if I run and get put in jail.”
Da: “Be braver.”
Wang: “It’s probably not too hard to run and get a cab, but if they find me, they’ll put me in jail. That’s what the pamphlet said. Fuck it. I’m done anyways. Never saw this coming. My car is on 215 S Ynez, see if you can do something about it.”
Da: “But if they send you back like this and hand you over to Chinese customs, you might end up in jail anyways.”
Wang: “I left the keys with Ming Ming. I’ve already told him that you’re gonna go pick up the keys. All the documents you need to sell the car should be in the car.”
Da: “Alright. I’ll see if I can sell it for you.”
Wang: “Thank God I at least exchanged all my money in the group chat yesterday. Fuck.”
Da: “You can still use your phone? They didn’t take it away?”
Wang: “My phone is fine. I’m free right now. I’m free to board the plane by myself too. They just brought me to the airport and gave me a ticket yesterday. I spent last night in a place kind of like jail.”
Da: “Did they handcuff you?”
Wang: “We got a pamphlet each, and it told us the severe consequences of not boarding the plane. No, it’s like I’m checking in to a flight on my own.”
Da: “So you can totally run. You’re just too scared.”
Wang: “I can run, but I’ll always be illegal if I run. If they find out you didn’t board your plane, like looking at the flight system and everything, then I can’t do anything and I have to spend my life in hiding.”
Da: “Then run. At least make money for a couple more years before going back.”
Da: “Are you lying to me? Send me a photo and lemme see if you’re at the airport or not. Are there police with you?”
Wang: “If I run, what if they freeze my bank card and driver’s license? I can’t do anything? What can you do as an illegal? The risk of getting caught is too high.”
Wang: “Why would I joke about this to you? There’s no police. I’m at the airport. I’m free right now.”
Da: “Just work for cash. What’s the big deal?”
Wang: [attach photo of airport] “I’m fucking done. I’ll send you another photo once I’m on the plane, about 1PM.”
Da: “Okay. Safe journeys.”
Wang: “Don’t tell the group chat about this. I don’t want to make everyone scared. Just don’t let them know, so they can be surprised when it happens to them.”
Da: “I don’t think anyone’s gonna panic. If they knew, they wouldn’t just quietly go along with it like you. They’d hide and at least make a little more money.”
Da: “Where are you now? You got internet on the plane?”
Wang: “I’ve landed, fuck. There’s checks to enter China. Got questioned a whole bunch, fined 1000, took me 2 hours. You get held up as soon as you scan your passport. The information is all there and there’s no record of me leaving.”
Da: “So you got locked down.”
Wang: “Yes.”
Da: “Did they cut up your passport?”
Wang: “They confiscated it. He said I need to get a new one once I’m out.”
Da: “You’ll never be able to come back again. They won’t give you another passport.”
Wang: “I can apply for a new one, but the process is that they have to confiscated it here.”
Da: “Oh.”
Wang: “They checked my phone inside and out too, but I deleted everything.”
Da: “Send a video. Lemme see where you are?”
Wang: “I’m at the hotel.”
Da: “Send me your location. I don’t believe you.”
Wang: [Sends both]
Da: “Fuck. You’re actually back in China!?”
Wang: “Yeah. They questioned me for 2 hours and fined me 1000 before they let me go.”
Da: “Did they confiscate your US dollars for working illegally?”
Wang: “No, they just checked my phone to see if I’ve been slandering them. They know what’s up. Only fined me 1000 and let me go.”
Comments say, “Fuck. Why don’t they just drop them off in a desert?”
“They got let go just like this? Just got tossed into Shanghai? What did Shanghai do to deserve this? Why don’t they have to get sent back to their place of origin? T_T”
“What the fuck. They should toss immigrants right into the sea. >: (“
A compilation of psychiatrist stories in China:
“Went to see a psychiatrist, and he kept poking at my scars, and I would just smile at him. He would keep saying, “Is it because your mom didn’t love you?” And other things to try to trigger me. When I went to pick up the chair, I found that it’s glued to the wall. When I wanted to hit him, he pulled out a shield out of nowhere.”
“Went to see a psychiatrist and he diagnosed me with bipolar and kept triggering me to try to make me freak out. I got mad so I jumped up and yell at him, when an electric cord on the floor tripped me over. So the doctor said I was manic-depressive and retarded and suggested I be hospitalised.”
“I got so triggered by my psychiatrist that I went to throw the vase on his table at him, and I found out it was glued to the table.”
“Last week, I went for a checkup at the hospital and got a new doctor. Never spoke to her before. I was actually in a pretty good mood at the time, I just have a resting bitch face, and the doctor thought I was mad. Sometimes, she’d ask me a question and I didn’t want to answer so I’d just ignore her. She had a voice exactly like Russian Nana [a Chinese influencer who uses a fake “foreign accent” and a filter that makes her look foreign to fake being Russian and gain followers by putting down Russia and singing China’s praises on short video platforms], and I was holding back laughter so hard that I was shaking all over. And that’s when she asked me, “What’s wrong?” And I couldn’t hold it in anymore and I jumped up and started cracking up. The doctor called both of my parents in and had me hospitalised right away. I only got out of the hospital this afternoon.”
“My first time visiting a psychiatrist, my mom took me. She told the doctor that I’m always crying in the bathroom at night, or screaming a whole bunch, and sometimes I’ll throw my phone or kick my computer. And the doctor asked me if I played Honour of Kings.”
“One time, I was in a really bad mood and couldn’t eat anything, so I went to see a psychiatrist myself. At the time, I talked in a really quiet voice, and the psychiatrist kept trying to trigger me until I got mad and loudly said he was a dumbass. I said, “If you keep triggering me, I’m going to jump off of this building.” And he was like, “Nah, you wouldn’t dare.” And I got so mad that I ate all of his breakfast.”
“I didn’t want to go to school. Every time I went to school, I’d start uncontrollably crying. My classmates suggested I go see a psychiatrist. I told my mom, and she wouldn’t let me. Instead, she offered me 200 RMB for going to school for a week, 500RMB a month for not missing a single day, and 50 RMB an hour for walking around the house on the weekends.”
“Went to the hospital with a friend, and the doctor literally told my friend off until she cried and wouldn’t stop, so I slapped the doctor in anger and he insisted I get myself checked up too. I didn’t, of course, but he was insisting that I should take a number until we left.”
“After getting treated by a psychiatrist for a while, he said I might have bipolar and recommended hospitalisation. I told him I didn’t have any money, and he was like, “So go work and make some money and come back to get hospitalised.”
“The doctor asked me why I can’t sleep at night. I said I didn’t know. I just have these emotional moments for no reason and start crying. He asked if he wanted to die. I was like, “No, my mom is gonna make me good food tomorrow.” And he was like, “What if your mom didn’t make you food?” And I just got stubborn and I asked him, “What’s my mom gonna do if she doesn’t make me food? Make you food?” And I realised how awkward I was being, so I touched his pencil holder in awkwardness, and as soon as the doctor saw that, he immediately jumped back, covered his head, and squat in the corner. I was like, “???””
“When I went to a psychiatrist before, I didn’t want to talk so I just zoned out, and she said I was retarded. My sister got mad and tried to argue with her, so she said my sister had violent tendencies.”
“When I went to see a psychiatrist, he asked me if I wanted to die. I said yes. He asked me how much money my parents give me every month, and I said 2400. He showed me his bank account balance of 800 or so RMB and said he wanted to die more than me.”
“In 11th grade, I got super anxious and didn’t want to go to school anymore. My mom took me to the state hospital to see a psychiatrist. It took half a month to get an appointment, and we spent 800 RMB on a 20 minute conversation, and in the end, the doctor just suggested I drop out of school and find a job.”
“What kind of parents would kick their own kid in the face 20 times?
Whatever. I just don’t see the point in anything.
I feel so empty and pointless. How weird. Like my heart is hollow.”
A compilation of comments, “Your parents hitting you doesn’t mean they don’t love you. They just have the method wrong.”
“Maybe your parents also don’t know how to regulate their emotions. You’re not entirely in the wrong, and they’re not entirely in the right. You have to understand each other. Now that you’re grown up, protect yourself, even if it means moving away from them. When I hit my kids, my heart hurts too. I just can’t control myself once I get angry. Kiddo, when your parents do something bad, they’re only being parents for the first time. Stop posting about them online.”
”Parents for the first time? Bullshit. It’s their first time getting a taste of power. They just know that their kid isn’t gonna kick them back. Would you kick your boss while you’re out and about?”
“If you can’t control your anger, why don’t you beat your boss?”
“I believe that normal kids wouldn’t get kicked, and normal parents wouldn’t kick their kids. So who can say what’s really going on here?”
“I mean, there’s two sides to everything. Why don’t you tell us why she would do such a thing first? If you feel wronged, you can talk about it. If you want revenge, you can plan for it. And if you did something wrong, you have to change too, right? Be a good girl.”
“However much you hate them when you beat them up, that’s how much you feel bad afterwards.”
“I looked at your previous Xiao Hong Shu posts and you have a pet cat and a pet rabbit and a lot of lolita dresses and an iPad. Who paid for all of that?”
“If you need comfort, I get it, but don’t subject your parents to internet bullying. I’m sure her mom really did hit her, but she’s saying her mom is insane on the internet, that she’s getting kicked 20 times. But look at her previous posts. She’s got a cat, she’s got a rabbit, she’s got lolita dresses, she’s got an iPad. Would a insane, abusive mom let her keep pets and get pretty clothes? Didn’t her mom pay for all of that?”
“Sorry, back in our day, we had to go to school until 8-9PM too, and write homework until midnight. You’re already much better off. Stop talking about it like no one else had to go to school.”
“Kids these days aren’t under too much pressure. They’ve just been spoiled by their parents and they can’t take any pressure at all. They’ll throw a fit over every little thing.”
“I’ve been kicked by my dad when I was little, but it wasn’t on my face, and I cried my heart out. At the end of that, my face was more swollen than hers, despite her supposedly being kicked 20 times. Now that I’m older, thinking back, I really was super naughty as a kid. But I only ever got beaten up in early primary school. Once I grew up, I knew that my parents loved me, and I love my parents. Now I just hope my parents can live as long as possible.”
“Ever since I had a kid, I totally get why I got beaten up as a kid.”
“Kiddo, it’s not your fault. If he kicked you in the face, I’m sure his emotions were out of control too, and he probably regrets it now.”
“You gotta look at the reason.”
“What kind of kid would get kicked 20 times by their parents?”
“What did you do to make her so angry?”
“Netizens expose on Jiujiang: Brand new concrete road in the village got ruined by this fucking boomer! There’s really all kinds in a village. I feel like he did it on purpose.”
Comments say, “There are a lot of old people like this in the villages, fucking everyone else over to no benefit of their own.”
“Please cremate him right then and there.”
“But the point is, even if he did this, there’s no consequences, right? Sure, there are laws, but who’s gonna enforce them? If this was in the 50s, who would dare? They’d get screwed inside and out.”