Chani Nicholas

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So excited to be here. Thank you for having me.

So excited to be here. Thank you for having me.

So excited to be here. Thank you for having me.

Yeah. Yeah. Totally uncomplicated and idyllic. I was born in a place in a time where people were experimenting with a lot of different ways of living and really kind of untethered from any kind of cultural norm. I grew up in a place where folks were doing a lot of drugs and partying a lot. And I am like typical Gen X in that We kind of just raised ourselves.

Yeah. Yeah. Totally uncomplicated and idyllic. I was born in a place in a time where people were experimenting with a lot of different ways of living and really kind of untethered from any kind of cultural norm. I grew up in a place where folks were doing a lot of drugs and partying a lot. And I am like typical Gen X in that We kind of just raised ourselves.

Yeah. Yeah. Totally uncomplicated and idyllic. I was born in a place in a time where people were experimenting with a lot of different ways of living and really kind of untethered from any kind of cultural norm. I grew up in a place where folks were doing a lot of drugs and partying a lot. And I am like typical Gen X in that We kind of just raised ourselves.

Someone said this on TikTok the other day. It was like, we grew up around a lot of adults. Like they were there, but we grew up. We grew up around some people. They didn't necessarily feel compelled to like parent. It was a culture that I grew up in. But in and of that, I grew up around a tremendous amount of addiction and the impacts of addiction on a child is that

Someone said this on TikTok the other day. It was like, we grew up around a lot of adults. Like they were there, but we grew up. We grew up around some people. They didn't necessarily feel compelled to like parent. It was a culture that I grew up in. But in and of that, I grew up around a tremendous amount of addiction and the impacts of addiction on a child is that

Someone said this on TikTok the other day. It was like, we grew up around a lot of adults. Like they were there, but we grew up. We grew up around some people. They didn't necessarily feel compelled to like parent. It was a culture that I grew up in. But in and of that, I grew up around a tremendous amount of addiction and the impacts of addiction on a child is that

no one reflects you back to yourself and that your needs are always second, if not 200 millionth on the list of things when the first thing on the list is to get high or to get out of one's feelings, to get out of the difficult thing by using a substance or whatever behavior is happening. So You know, I think a lot of us have that experience. This is my particular brand of that experience.

no one reflects you back to yourself and that your needs are always second, if not 200 millionth on the list of things when the first thing on the list is to get high or to get out of one's feelings, to get out of the difficult thing by using a substance or whatever behavior is happening. So You know, I think a lot of us have that experience. This is my particular brand of that experience.

no one reflects you back to yourself and that your needs are always second, if not 200 millionth on the list of things when the first thing on the list is to get high or to get out of one's feelings, to get out of the difficult thing by using a substance or whatever behavior is happening. So You know, I think a lot of us have that experience. This is my particular brand of that experience.

And one day when I was very young and I was taken on a situation where I'm pretty sure the adults were doing a lot of illegal things. One of the women that was in this situation, I'll never forget it. I didn't know what she was doing at the time, but she actually looked at me, which was a kind of rare thing for the adults to kind of take in the children.

And one day when I was very young and I was taken on a situation where I'm pretty sure the adults were doing a lot of illegal things. One of the women that was in this situation, I'll never forget it. I didn't know what she was doing at the time, but she actually looked at me, which was a kind of rare thing for the adults to kind of take in the children.

And one day when I was very young and I was taken on a situation where I'm pretty sure the adults were doing a lot of illegal things. One of the women that was in this situation, I'll never forget it. I didn't know what she was doing at the time, but she actually looked at me, which was a kind of rare thing for the adults to kind of take in the children.

But she opened up this book and she asked the person I was with what my birthday was. And then she got my birthday and she like dragged her figure down the page and landed on my birthday and looked up at me and said, you're really judgmental. Oh my gosh. And I thought, yes, yes, I am. None of these fuckers have any judgment whatsoever. I am the one who is like, this is not okay.

But she opened up this book and she asked the person I was with what my birthday was. And then she got my birthday and she like dragged her figure down the page and landed on my birthday and looked up at me and said, you're really judgmental. Oh my gosh. And I thought, yes, yes, I am. None of these fuckers have any judgment whatsoever. I am the one who is like, this is not okay.