You will always be your mom’s special little angel. And no matter how awkward you might look in a photograph, your mom will always compliment you and tell you that you look great. Or nearly almost always. That’s the theory that Abigail Sanders has.

She started a Twitter thread where she invited people to take “Facebook mom style” selfies, send them to their moms, and then post their responses. As you could have probably expected, a lot of people took Abigail up on her suggestion, the thread went viral, and the replies were wholesome and heart-warming. Except for a few surprising responses that made us chuckle.

Scroll down, upvote your favorite responses, and let us know in the comments which ones you liked the most and why. If you’re feeling adventurous, dear Readers, why not send your mom a random selfie and post the response in the comments as well?

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Abigail’s Twitter thread got over 139,700 likes and 14,600 retweets in just over a week’s time. While the vast majority of moms reacted very positively to getting a random selfie from their kids, some mothers’ responses were unexpected and hilarious.

For example, one mom blamed her son for trying to use the selfie to get out of answering her question about what he bought with her credit card. While another mom asked her daughter what was wrong because she looked happy in the pic.

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While our moms might look full of energy and have a smile on their face the vast majority of the time, the truth is, motherhood is hard. Sometimes, moms need to hear some words of encouragement that will pick them up when things get hard and will immediately improve their mood.

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Motherly writes that there are some things that we can all say that will help our moms out. Phrases such as "You are doing a great job," "all your kids need is for you to love them," and "you are doing better than you think you are."

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While these sentences might seem like common sense, everyone needs reminding from time to time that every single person in existence makes mistakes. Perfection is impossible: we should learn from our mistakes and move towards perfection, but we shouldn’t believe that it’s an attainable goal. After all, even the mothers who seem perfect because of their pristine social media accounts are human, just like we all are.