teachers, share the weird crap your kids have done!
I’m not a teacher (yet) but I do work with students and one of them had the nerve to look me dead in the eye and ask me “why would it be a bad idea for me to eat this entire marker?” They’re 11
An 4th grader asked for a high five by saying, “A little slappy to make daddy happy?”
I did not give him a high five.
A student during break had her head in her arms and was shaking a bit, so i asked the kid next to her whether she was laughing or crying and this 8 year old stared me in the eye deadpan and said “im crying on the inside”
Wait i take that back, I cant believe i forgot about the time i brought in a small stuffed octopus as a class mascot because why tf not. It was a class of high schoolers and i didnt imagine theyd actually care much, but one student snuck in a snack and gave it to the octopus as a tribute. Which led to other students doing the same thing, until every day there was a pile of of offerings to Fweej the Overseer, mostly consisting of things like string cheeses and small bags of chips, but sometimes there wouldd be a couple bucks in quarters, one kid brought in some giant pocky i think, and at one point there was a cold stone gift card. This stuffed octopus gained a cult following.
Later i brought in another stuffed octopus that looked exactly the same but bigger and told the class that Fweej the Overseer accepted their offerings and became stronger. These highschoolers lost their goddamn minds.
I recently had one of my second graders run up to me clutching a book and say “I’m reading a chapter book now!” in a really proud voice. I started to congratulate him on his accomplishment when he cut me off mid sentence to say “and I ate an entire sticky note!” before zooming off. Congrats, kid
Inspiration porn like the oft used quote, “The only disability in life is a bad attitude” only contributes to the stigma both internalized and external that disabled people deal with on a daily basis.
I’ll elaborate; by saying that the only disability is a bad attitude, you are essentially saying that disabled people who don’t “overcome” their disability to society’s standards are not trying hard enough or worse, that they’re lazy.
We can internalize this toxic message and feel bad when our symptoms or limitations prevent us from achieving goals in the same manner as the abled person. It can lead us to work ourselves to the point of exhaustion in a non assessable way.
In short: if you give a damn about disabled people, stop spreading this highly toxic message and instead, acknowledge that the disabled person faces unique challenges that require accommodations and support to “overcome” and that there are some things that are not possible for a disabled person to do and that’s ok. We all have limitations and we have to learn to work within them.
not to sound like a conservative local pastor but eight year olds should not be playing, like, call of duty even offline
of course i dont think playing violent video game by itself is going to make a kid capable of and willing to commit murder because thats also dumb as shit but children shouldnt be exposed to the concepts of violence and death before they’re able to grasp the implications of it and what effect it can have on them and the way they view the world
An autistic friend of mine just said this to me “The harder I work at communication the more people expect from me and the less they are willing to compromise.” and it is the most fucking heartbreaking thing I’ve heard.
This is very much a thing, though – and I’m sure people across the board with other disabilities can verify that it happens to them, too.
People will turn any progress you make toward being “normal” – no matter how straining or difficult it is for you, no matter how little it actually helps you – as either inspiration porn, or proof that you don’t really need accommodations, you just need to “apply yourself! :)))))”
YUP
“Oh, so you can hold your breath for a minute? If you just work harder at it you’ll be able to hold your breath for an hour, and eventually you won’t need to breathe at all.”
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