The school system is a narcissistic parent. The kids with learning disabilities play as the scapegoats, are abused verbally, emotionally and physically through bullying and completely neglected by the system. They are isolated, have less chances to develop social skills and have a low self esteem. The gifted kids play as the golden children, their every move is controlled, the system is emotionally manipulating them to achieve medals so the teacher can have a pay raise, are stripped of any autonomy over their lives and their parents are basically grabbed by the balls to spend more and more on programs or "they will ruin the child's future" - basically slaps the children and the parents for not "being grateful for the 12h+ of work a day and the destruction of their friendships and social skills". This looks like love from the outside but it's just covert abuse. Both are abuse, but they play very different, and the root of both is that we look at children and say "this kid is useless and I hate that I need to offer it support" and "this kid will be a useful asset, let's start extracting every thought they have at maximum speed". Basically "how can I use this kid to my benefit".
"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.
The problem with moderators is that they have to be extremely online to adequately perform their duties but being online that much makes you fucking insane
I feel weird because as an autistic person there is the headcanon super-genius super-serious type of autistic person in the white cis boy media and then there is the internet anime fan with plush toys that watches cartoons which is often the women's "type" and then there is the nbs that have a special interest in sex and gender which most people don't even know are neurodivergent and there is the thrill seeker with addiction and black and an interest in the grotesque with no boundaries and constant understimulation which has its gender adaptations and and ... not fitting any of these autistic person categories that I noticed and classified neatly in my Evernote frustrates me. It's like when you can instantly say if someone is attractive but you're blindsided by your own self-realization. I know every autistic person is unique and cannot be fit into a box but I like placing types of people into approximate boxes so I know how to interact with them to bring them joy and minimize ridicule and I kind of wish I had a box but the whole process is probably subconsciously prejudiced and unfair... idk
tumblr staff should be hired to write the error messages when other social medias go down, the people at facebook deserve to see "oopsy woopsy there's been a fucky wucky by zucky"
I think that we as a society should get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes our friends will be attracted to us and sometimes we will be attracted to our friends and nothing needs to come of that.
You don't have to date. You don't have to stop being friends. You can just keep hanging out. Self control and respect exists.
And sometimes you will date your friend and figure out that your dynamic worked better when you were friends. And then you can go back to being friends. It's really quite simple. Mature and cool, even.
A few of my friends and people I follow are into Pathologic, so i thought I’d walk into the game with a vague understanding of who the main characters were and what it was about