Meet New York's 11-year-old subway therapist
December 21, 2016 6:25 AM Subscribe
If you’re in need of some emotional advice, but have neither the time or the money to waste on a qualified therapist, this 11-year-old kid has you covered. Also see the Daily Telegraph link.
All I can say is, I've spent way more than that on some pretty shitty excuses for therapy.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:27 AM on December 21, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:27 AM on December 21, 2016 [6 favorites]
Like Lucy from Peanuts with her booth advertising 'Psychaitric Help' for five cents, Ciro has a cardboard sign reading simply 'Emotional Advice $2'.
Given Lucy's penchant for inflicting repeated emotional trauma, I'll spring for the extra $1.95.
posted by leotrotsky at 7:31 AM on December 21, 2016 [13 favorites]
Given Lucy's penchant for inflicting repeated emotional trauma, I'll spring for the extra $1.95.
posted by leotrotsky at 7:31 AM on December 21, 2016 [13 favorites]
On the one hand, it's not good to expect kids to handle adult emotions and problems, especially if they are good at it, because it causes long-term problems for them as adults.
On the other, this kid is a superhero and I would be so proud if he were mine.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:42 AM on December 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
On the other, this kid is a superhero and I would be so proud if he were mine.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:42 AM on December 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
It beats those creepy "free personality tests" and "de-stress therapy" that Scientology tried to hawk there.
posted by Doktor Zed at 8:23 AM on December 21, 2016
posted by Doktor Zed at 8:23 AM on December 21, 2016
In NYC, the high price of therapy is in part the high price of office rental. Ciro has low overhead by using the subway as an office.
posted by Obscure Reference at 9:18 AM on December 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Obscure Reference at 9:18 AM on December 21, 2016 [4 favorites]
"Ciro has low overhead by using the subway as an office."
Would he be allowed to do this if he were an adult offering the same service? Surely there must be a regulation prohibiting people from offering services-for-pay (or even by donation) on Transit property?
posted by tenderly at 2:27 PM on December 21, 2016
Would he be allowed to do this if he were an adult offering the same service? Surely there must be a regulation prohibiting people from offering services-for-pay (or even by donation) on Transit property?
posted by tenderly at 2:27 PM on December 21, 2016
Surely there must be a regulation prohibiting people from offering services-for-pay (or even by donation) on Transit property?
You should perhaps look into the ordinances propagated by Councilman E. Scrooge, R-Spuyten Duyvil.
"Are there no prisons? ... And the Union workhouses, are they still in operation?"
posted by aureliobuendia at 2:37 PM on December 21, 2016
You should perhaps look into the ordinances propagated by Councilman E. Scrooge, R-Spuyten Duyvil.
"Are there no prisons? ... And the Union workhouses, are they still in operation?"
posted by aureliobuendia at 2:37 PM on December 21, 2016
Adjusted for inflation, two dollars in 2016 is equal to about twenty-four cents in 1959.
posted by mbrubeck at 5:48 PM on December 21, 2016
posted by mbrubeck at 5:48 PM on December 21, 2016
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Priced have sure gone up since the 1960s.
posted by TedW at 6:37 AM on December 21, 2016 [7 favorites]