Hannah Hakes

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I am totally blind myself, and I was diagnosed with autism back in 2022, five days before my twenty-seventh birthday. Having said that, I have a lot of things to say about this movie. Even though the characters featured in the movie are adults, their parents, in addition to other people who serve as their role models, give them advice about dating that you would normally give little kids. Pull out the girl's chair for her. Buy her flowers. Pay for her meals. Make sure that everyone is having a two-way conversation. Don't take up most of the conversation. Don't talk too much about yourself. They also place a heavy emphasis on common interests. Peter and Kay Lynn (I don't know if I'm spelling her name right) don't like it when people hold dead animals in their profile pictures. Abby and David like lions, tigers, bears, and dolphins. Sabod and Rachel like flying kites. And Danny! Oh my God! Every guy she meets, she asks them if their lives are together, and what their goals are. She wants a guy with money. Who can take her places. Who can give her everything she wants. Did her aunt and uncle ever teach her that it's wrong to feel that way about someone? That it's the guy's personality traits, compassion, trust, and willingness to help others that outweighs everything? Doesn't Danny realize that love is more than common interests? It's about the connection between two people. Their understanding of each other. The energy that they have. She tells Solomon that she's in love with him, and she kisses him on the first date. Then like a week later, she breaks up with him? Solomon told her that she was leading him on the whole time, but she had no idea what that meant, and her aunt and uncle never explained that to her. She wants the guys to get their lives together? Danny doesn't know how to talk to a person. She doesn't know basic social cues. Her aunt and uncle never taught her those things. And James. Emma led him on too. He's very sweet, smart, loving, and articulate. But she told him she wanted to go on a second date, when she really didn't. Because when he asked her if she wanted to, she cried, and her voice trembled, but she said yes anyway. I really like James, Kay Lzynn, Sabod, and Abby. Dannny? No. Please no. Overall, this show eexploits people's ideas of what love is supposed to be. All of the characters on this show are very naíve and have a very narrow experience of the world, which means that the producer and Jennifer Cook aren't really helping. Because they're giving them little-kid ideas of how love is supposed to feel, and what you need to do or say on a date.

Love on the Spectrum

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Mike, or Mary Elizabeth, the main character in this book, is probably the most disgusting person I know, and I don't like a lot of the main characters in Julie Anne Peters' books. When she looks at Xanadu, she foams at the mouth! Like an animal. Or at least, that's what the book implies. She wants to act just like Bailey. To be shy. To meet Xanadu's family. To make Xanadu trust her. To protect Xanadu. She's a girl, but she wants to be a gentleman. Just like Bailey. But she will never be like Bailey. She stares at Xanadu's jeans and blouse. At her lacy sweater and leather pants. Tries to look right through her, like she's some kind of disgusting predator. Mike is so sick. And then she complains about how much food her mom eats, and how much she wants her mom to just disappear. She complains that her mom doesn't act like a mom should. Well of course she doesn't. She eats a lot of food to cope with the loss of her husband. What else are you supposed to do besides just sit in the house and eat? And Mike slams her for that, even though she's her mom. And even though Xanadu is with Bailey, Mike just thinks that she can steal her from him, and that everything will change, and that Xanadu will magically fall in love with her one day. But that's not. How. Things Work! And it doesn't help that Xanadu keeps leading her on, touching her leg, her arm, her shoulder. I just can't stand Mike and how she foams at the mouth for this girl! Just get over it! She's never going to be with you! Maybe Xanadu is lying to herself. Maybe she's not straight. Maybe she does like girls, and is tricking herself into believing that Bailey would be better for her than Mike. But Mike NEEDS TO LEAVE THIS GIRL ALONE!!!! Get over her. She acts like an animal around her. Not only that, but she has a big ego, bragging about how muscular she is, how strong her arms are, how she can throw her empty cup all the way to the trash can without getting up from her seat. Out of all the characters in Julie Anne Peters' books, I hate Mike the most, because she's so disgusting, so predatory, and can't take no for an answer.

Far from Xanadu

Oh my God. This movie is so weird. It glamorizes pregnancy. It makes it seem like having a baby is just like dressing up a baby doll: you get to take "it" to the park; you get to paint "its" nails; "it" can be your best friend, (if it's a girl). They also said they would never yell at their children. What? So you're just going to train your children to run around and misbehave in public, bothering other people? Sara, one of the girls who agreed to become a part of The Pregnancy Pact, said that she and her boyfriend Jesse could take care of the baby by working at her family's seafood place. You CAN'T TAKE CARE of a BABY by working at a fish restaurant! Even if you and your boyfriend work there, you're not gonna make enough money to buy diapers, formula, toys, a crib, bibs, baby clothes, etc. How are you going to pay for school when the baby grows up? They do talk about the symptoms of pregnancy, like fluid buildup in certain parts of your body, and the lack of a connection between mother and baby. But they don't talk about the other symptoms, like nausea, vomiting, and mood swings. And THEN SARA DRINKS WHILE she's PREGNANT!!!! Oh my God! And they make it seem like you're committing a horrible crime if you can't handle it and decide to leave your baby on a doorstep for another family to take care of. Oh and the blogger who interviews the girls? She's such a wonderful person because she was in their position once, and she decided to put her aby up for adoption instead of have an abortion.

The Pregnancy Pact

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