#Trauma of the gifted child

[embassyrowprojectonline]

“Building Futures: A Comprehensive Guide to Child Soldier Reintegration and Peacebuilding in Conflict Zones” book is now available on Amazon

by Embassy Row Project

“Building Futures: A Comprehensive Guide to Child Soldier Reintegration and Peacebuilding in Conflict Zones” presents an intricate roadmap to address the dire yet overlooked issue of child soldier reintegration. This ground-breaking book is a crucial resource for psychologists, government officials, and NGO experts seeking to untangle the complexity of this humanitarian crisis and implement effective strategies for peacebuilding and reintegration.

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[the-celestial-bitch]

typical asian parents disappointed that their child miraculously escaped the torture school

[seven-stars-in-his-palm]

the thing i love about bill cipher is that even after i've learned all of this stuff about him, seen him at the most vulnerable he'll ever get, seen him at his most innocent, i still can't give a flying fuck about trying to justify his actions. yes he's traumatized, yes he was twisted into what we know today, and while it gives a semblance of context to why he did what he did, it doesn't matter. he still ruined ford's life. he still drove and baited multiple humans to suicide. he still tormented every human he saw as his ticket out of the consequences of his own actions. he still took delight in his actions. he was willing to commit genocide for fuck's sake!!! (freezing all of the humans into statues). trying to explain away what he did does not get rid of what he did, but it certainly puts it in perspective. you won't be catching me being a bill apologist any time soon <3

[raionmimi]

HC that Lucio's dad met a very charming student at Vishkar that would talk to him sometimes, but he didn't see her again until he was transferred to one of the company's classified operation rooms

He quit very soon after and has several regrets about their last meeting

[sincerely-sofie]

When Ruby was hospitalized from the wounds Merit and Constance gave her, did Opal feel guilty about not speaking up about what was happening?

Absolutely. Everyone was quick to soothe her about how Ruby was going to be okay— Twig in particular was especially intense about reassuring her that it wasn’t her fault, and what matters is that she told them at all— but she feels like, in a way, she’s responsible for Ruby’s suffering. After all, if she told someone about how Merit and Constance treated Ruby before she was injured so horribly she had a long and painful recovery that lasted almost an entire year, Ruby would have never been hurt like that, right? It’s her fault, at least halfway… Isn’t it?

Ruby, after recovering a bit, has a very different perspective of things, and feels like they worked out the best they ever could. It’s because of those injuries that she’s never going to see her abusers again. It’s because of those injuries that she was taken in by Opal’s family. It’s because of those injuries that she gets to be Opal’s sister. And it’s because of Opal speaking up when she did that Ruby was okay in the end.

Ruby would never hold it against Opal. She actually thought for a while that the timing of her speaking out was intentional because it ended up in the best circumstances she could imagine. But Opal sometimes sees the illusions that cover up Ruby’s scars waver and hates herself for being so scared of Merit and Constance when Ruby was the one who was actually in danger.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[blonding]

kind of scary how i turn 26 in october but i am trying so hard to be nonchalant and chill abt it. doing a very bad at it job tho 💔

[stargarnet03]

Raz psychonauts animatic set to SIU by maretu do you see my vision

[fiddleturnips]

Backupsmore University

Okay, so. The following is not very well written and has been heavily edited in my actual draft - the chapter it was in has been broken up and spread between like three different chapters. However, I realized that the context for Why Fiddleford Is Like That is sort of important for my other snippets to make sense.

Content warning for depression, but this section does not contain graphic detail. Further content warning for the American Public School System in the Nineteen-Seventies. (Specifically: the school system's relative inability to absorb non-average children.)

"Ah. Right." Stanford sat back down. The broken mug scraped across the tiles and clattered as Fiddleford swept. "Well, we were in high school. It was close to graduation. We'd been fighting anyway. Big time for me, because it was around the Science Fair-"

"Scholarship season."

"Yes."

"Your family weren't that well off, am I rembering right? I seem to recall you were seeking a full ride and couldn't get it."

"I was going to go to Westmore. If I could afford it, I would have anyway. But Backupsmore was a lot more manageable."

Fiddleford laughed. "Ain't that the truth."

"Wait, you were full ride. And you were, what, seventeen Freshman year? What were you doing there?"

"They weren't that strict on school transcripts," Fiddleford said. "A lot more welcoming of science and engineering portfolios. And I needed full ride, I wasn't getting a dime after a bug came by and wiped out my school stock."

"Your… your what?"

"Oh, you wouldn't have this sort of thing. Some of us livestock breeders, when a kid's young, we'll start to set some animals aside for them. You invest in a couple of pigs, add to the herd when you can, teach the kid to care for 'em, and when it comes time for high school graduation you can get a sturdy few grand even if it's just a small herd, then if you invest it right and keep an eye on the price of pork, you can pay a kid through college with a bit to spare. Only mine all got sick and died out."

"That is fascinating and tragic. You never talked about this."

"Yeah, I never talked to the Yankee kids about the fact that I was going to a bum school because my papa couldn't afford a better one because my pigs died and I didn't have school transcripts 'cause I didn't go to school. How do you think that woulda gone over?"

Stanford did know about Fiddleford's school history. At this moment, he was significantly exaggerating. He had gone to school, and he had excelled at school - for about two thirds as long as any other kid, if you combined all of the months.

Pines and McGucket were close college friends, in a lot of the same classes and clubs, spending study hours together in the tucked-away rooms that let them get as loud and melodramatic as they wanted. At first, Fiddleford had joked that he'd done a lot of special programs for county fairs as a kid. Then, he'd joked that nobody taught him per se as he'd just up and swallowed a library one summer and they all figured that was probably that. Then he'd joked that he was a dropout, and when pressed on that he'd grudgingly admit that no, he was homeschooled.

Then eventually the two boys got close enough and he got tipsy enough for it all to come out. The whole story was that the older he got, the more he skipped grades and got shifted to advanced classes and eventually got stuck in the school's Special Education department because as it was they had no idea what the hell else to do with him, the more he'd get bored and start stealing books from older kids and building things out of school supplies and on one memorable occasion stuck a fork in the electrical outlet - he'd been found with third-degree burns on his hand and a paper beside him calculating the exact voltage available from the wall outlet in comparison to the shock a human being could survive - anyway, the more all of that happened, the earlier in the year his Ma and Pa would have the hard conversation that the trouble he could cause at home was nothing like the trouble he was already causing in the classroom.

By high school, his Ma had sat him down and said: Look. You need an education. Every single word of what they teach you in those there classrooms matters, even the stuff you think is dumb and silly. So you're gonna stay home this year, we're getting permission to let you do experiments in the local tech college's labs for Chemistry and such and the rest you're figuring out on your own. And at the end of the year, you are submitting reports about what you learned to every single teacher in the school, and we'll see if they find fault in your methods.

She'd meant for him to get through Freshman core curriculum. He'd gotten through that most of the electives. The next year, he did the rest of the core curriculum and they rented out some textbooks from the local tech college, plus a special weekly tutoring session with the Language Arts teacher because his critical thinking was a bit underdeveloped and another with the AP Maths guy to whip his self-correction into shape. The year after that, they had a sit-down with a representative of the County and a recruitment man from a university and the principal of the high school he'd dropped out of. He couldn't legally leave the public system until he was at the legal age, but they all agreed that he was doing just fine on his own until then.

He wasn't seventeen when he enrolled at Backupsmore. He was sixteen. And he'd already tested out of Freshman and Sophmore classes, and the only other one there who'd done that was Stanford. The two were friends because up to that point, neither one had ever had a peer.

Stanford Pines was a by-the-book scientist. He'd completed every year of school the way it was intended, on time, and with very high marks. He'd also completed science fair projects and extracurriculars. Once he reached university, he kept a full schedule, his days planned to the minute, with an exercise routine and designated journaling time. His accelerated schooling happened because he did things to the letter, bull-rushed through the political game, took every advantage he could get, and was so damn good at his job that nobody could find a reason to keep him from going at it.

Fiddleford McGucket was a free thinking engineer. He couldn't keep his head on straight enough to follow orders, but he was "such a delight to have in class" and "unfailingly diligent with his homework" and "not afraid to do the hard, boring work that needs doing for a project's success," so he kept getting special treatment anyway.

For Stanford Pines, his combined arrogance with his peers, aggressively growth-minded attitude, relentless self-paced work schedule, and unfailing results put him through twelve doctorates and a self-guided grant program.

For Fiddleford McGucket, the combined inexperience working with others, habit of taking on all the work that was available to him so he could prove he was worthwhile, commitment to doing everything perfectly right the first time no matter how loaded his schedule was, and desperate, desperate need to fit in for once left him plastered to the floor of a bathroom stall trying not to cry out loud while he psyched himself up to get back to the lab every spring and autumn night for a year.

Pines and McGucket had both set astronomical standards for themselves that no normal human could possibly hope to achieve. Difference was, Doctor Stanford Pines had somehow done it.

[pain-is-my-game]

Every time that I make a mistake I feel like I'm on the verge of a mental breakdown. I was supposed to be better than this. Why am I not better than this? What happened to that golden child who could do now wrong? The person that everyone looked up to? She was never there in the first place. And I know that. But who am I if I'm not perfect?

[cookthepenguin]

me as a kid: *doesn’t connect emotionally or socially with anyone due to trauma*

society: look at you! you’re so mature for your age! such an old soul!!! a truly G I F T E D child!

me growing up: *has no idea how to navigate social relationships wich are needed for things like jobs*

society: why are you so immature?

[citrusitonit]

cant belive this slightly altered formula version of me be dragging me in her problems fr

[hey-hey-j]

one of the unsung benefits of not realizing I was autistic sooner is the knowledge that if I had been diagnosed as a child my mother would have 100% been an Autism Mom™️

[swordmaid]

for me… FOR ME..!!! and for shri’iia specifically the lock in for astarion’s romance is his graveyard scene in act 3.

i think it is too quick for shri’iia to be moving on to another relationship considering her previous one was with her mistress who essentially groomed and isolated her for like … more than hundred years. learning to chase her own desires and not moulding herself to what anyone wants her to be is something so new to her…!!! and something that she’s still learning how to be comfortable with….

and what I like abt romancing astarion with her is that I usually go for the dialogue path in his act 2 confession scene where you can ask him:

- what do YOU want to do?

and he goes like honestly idk what we’re doing but /this/ is nice. it just feels like two people exploring the option to love for the first time and taking things in their own pace rather than jumping straight into the relationship. they’re going at a snails pace… they don’t know what they’re doing but they like this feeling and the vibe and they want to more of it but they’re not ready to commit to anything yet and it’s fine for them …!! and they’re only committing by the end in the graveyard scene where significant time has passed and they’ve learnt a little more about themselves and they’re both more confident about their own desires and also how they want to be loved.

like it is so fitting I think… and sweet… not to mention astarion being a high elf & a vampire and shri’iia being a drow, they have all the time of the world for themselves so I def think they would want to take their time. except if shri’iia turns into a mindflayer or drider by the end then that plan is out the window lol

[coffeexxcigarettes]

No, thank you.

-

When my dad beat my mom,

He'd always return with gifts.

Nothing thoughtful, mind you,

And always bought with her money-

But a gift, nevertheless.

I've seen this pattern so often,

Mirrored throughout different avenues of life.

Always the poison offering the relief;

Always the blade offering mercy.

You'll have to forgive my jaded sense of self,

My refusal to believe in your wonder.

There's never been a free meal,

And that's something I learned from my mother.

x

[hypermascbishounen]

I love my uncle for many reasons, but it's especially good to have someone in the family who went through all the same family problems, so you don't feel completely gaslit about them.