Wit & Attitude Quote by Lynn Johnston

Joined at the hip is domestic comedy language that quietly smuggles in something heavier: a portrait of family love as both inescapable and unfinished business. Lynn Johnston, as a cartoonist, understands how to make an intimate confession land like a caption under a panel. The line moves with that same economy: affection, irritation, pride, grief, all in one breath.

The pairing of "loved and hated" is doing the real work. It rejects the sanitized script of parenthood-as-constant-bliss and replaces it with a truer, messier rhythm: closeness that can feel like captivity, devotion that includes resentment, tenderness that survives exhaustion. By rooting it "since the day he was born", Johnston frames the relationship as fate-like, even bodily, but not sentimental. It's a bond that has scar tissue.

Then the quote swerves from private to public. "He's going to broadcasting college now" sounds like a sitcom beat - the kid is launched, the parent narrates with cautious optimism. But "he came into a world that did not welcome him" cracks the tone open. That final sentence implies stigma and structural hostility: disability, illness, difference, or a family situation that drew judgment. Johnston doesn't specify because she doesn't have to; the point is the ambient cruelty of a society that sorts people into "easy to love" and "hard to accommodate."

The intent is less to memorialize Aaron's journey than to indict the culture around it. Under the warmth is a warning: survival and success are personal victories, but they shouldn't require fighting the world just to be allowed in.