rant · moment 5 of 30
Divorce Trauma and the Boomer Beanie Baby Custody Battle
from 159 - Bomb Disney World · #159
5 min
A lengthy rant on how divorce genuinely damages kids despite society downplaying it now, including his parents' two-year mediated divorce fighting over trivial items like Aunt Gussy's table and his father's guitars.
- A friend says divorce as a child extinguishes hope of ever having a conventional life because you're damaged now.
- Divorce barely registers as trauma because everything else is so catastrophically bad—kids in cages, on heroin, being sold by CPS to senators.
- Tim explains what divorce really means: parents telling the child 'we're not into each other, and barely into you.'
- Marriage without children is kind of dumb unless you're running an empire; otherwise you're heading toward the end.
- Tim's parents' divorce lasted two years because they couldn't afford lawyers and used a mediator to argue over Beanie Babies.
- His mother asked who would get Aunt Gussy's table while Tim, age 13, faced a decade of drug use.
- Boomers had nothing to divide—no college education, no financial planning, just Hess trucks and guitars.
- People messaged Tim defending boomers: they went from acid in fields listening to Hendrix to Reagan's office with kids to feed.
- Divorce is more traumatic than people credit, especially when kids have to testify in court and get cross-examined by experts.
- Tim is not religious, though he considers comedy a cult that makes the least sense of all of them.