nada/fada (just my own little joke)

[Guest guest]

So, a while ago there was a discussion about the relative merits of the terms

nada and fada.

I had a lot of free time on my hands yesterday waiting on various things (drug

testing for a new job, etc.) and was thinking I am not really fully comfortable

with those terms either. One, because they still seem to require a " my " and the

suggestion of a relationship and I don't feel any connection to the adults who

were supposed to raise me at all. Also, they were not " zeros. " They were

actively bad. They were not nothing: they were negatives.

This brought me to thinking about new terms and Prince popped into my head--you

know, the " musician formerly known as Prince. " And I thought about this:

" People Who Were Supposed to Parent, " or PWWSP (pronounced pwisp). You could

also say Male Who Was Supposed to Parent (MWWSP--pronounced mwisp) or Female Who

Was Supposed to Parent (FWWSP--pronounced fwisp). I was trying to get it to

sound as much like swiffer as possible...

Just sharing,

Ashana