#invisible children

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Manifesting a State Visit🤥🤡

Another day, another lie. While the US government is in free fall, a reporter at the White House press corps briefing said this on behalf of The Meghans:

"There's been some reporting by my colleagues in the British press that His Majesty King Charles would like to visit his grandchildren in California and could do so in conjunction with a state visit..."

[lunelfy]

"Lost" Child ;

To all the children ( ♫ ) that are no longer a child... High above the tallest tree courage will come your way. It's the need that burns, the trust that shines, when you climb out of the shade ♥

One solid thing they do have:

[youcallyourselfafilmcritic]

One of the funniest "Hilarious in Hindsight" things for me is with the show Veronica Mars

If you've never watched it's an early 2000s (with a movie in 2014 and one season revival in 2019) noir-aesthetic SoCal mystery series that aired on UPN with a final season on CW. Part of the deal with the CW acquisition (the series was NOT doing well ratings wise) was to simplify the format.

So the first two seasons had one long mystery with season 2's bus crash being particularly convoluted. This is kind of hilarious in the binge era but they felt this made it hard to market the show so it kind of got a soft reboot with the cast in college.

They whittled it down to dividing the season into 3 parts, with the first two following shorter self-contained mysteries and the last handful of episodes having nothing. It was a detective show with no detecting outside of standalone case of the week stuff.

So with no arc (outside of Veronica's father Keith running for the town's Sherriff which wasn't that engaging) they needed some more hooks per the episodes. And they actually did what the kids would have called a Very Special Episode where they got involved with a charity and all!

They even ended the episode-I Know What You'll Do Next Summer-with a bumper for a charity that was involved with the episode's production which was about Ugandan child soldiers.

The charity in question? Invisible Children

They would five years after this episode's airing go on to gain infamy with what was known as their Get Kony 2012 campaign. Yes this is THAT charity

And if you don't know Kony 2012-and therefore why them popping up in a random VM episode years prior is so funny to me-that, my friends, is a story for another time....(or just Google it I'm probably not gonna do another post about this campaign and it's heavily documented)

[depressedteenatthego]

I never knew a Ted talk could make me cry so much!! I haven't cried about being an invisible child for like 3 years now and now I come across this talk and I'm crying my eyes out at 5 in the morning.

[heyftinally]

April 30th is the Day of the Homeschooled Child

I was one of the 1.7 million children homeschooled in the USA.

I am also one of Homeschool's Invisible Children.

I was heavily restricted at home - I was barred from nearly everything that my peers were connecting with. I had incredibly limited access to movies and TV, even more restricted internet access, and was even barred from many of the same toys my peers played with. This on top of my academic isolation made socializing very hard.

I didn't relate to my peers socially.

Children younger than me were more academically advanced than me.

I was socially unaware, and frequently missed jokes or made faux pas comments because I didn't understand how to interact with peers.

My ADHD went untreated my entire childhood.

And the issues were not only social. Despite living in a state that boasted some of the most rigorous checks for homeschooled students, I was missed. My portfolios every year were falsified - much of what they claimed I had learned I had little to no understanding of.

By the time I graduated high school "with honors" (that I did not earn and were entirely false), this is a brief list of some of my academic failings:

I had never written an essay, and did not know how

I did not know how to do a critical analysis of a piece of text or media

I was incapable of math above a 4th/5th grade level

I could not tell time on an analog clock

I could not identify more than ~5 states on a map of the United States

I could not identify more than ~5 countries on a map of the world/globe

I could not spell above a ~6th grade level

I did not know that there was proof of life on earth prior to dinosaurs

I did not know that the lymphatic system was real

And so much more.

I entered college woefully unequipped for both the academic and socal demands that were placed on me. At 18, I was closer to as 14 year old, social/emotionally. Academically I was much worse.

I had to work three times as hard as my peers to achieve the same results, battled my still-undiagnosed ADHD as well as my academic and social neglect.

I didn't fully know who I even was as a person, due to spending so many years being expected to fit a specific ideal that was enforced upon me 24/7 through the isolation of homeschooling.

This April 30th, I'm wearing green for Homeschool's Invisible Children - for children like me.

If you are a child experiencing homeschool neglect, please know that you are not alone. There are resources available to you, and your future is not doomed just because your guardians failed to educate you. I'm listing some resources below that may be of help to you.

Homeschool alumni/survivors who resonate with this story: we deserved better. We deserved education. We deserved freedom. It's okay if you're angry at your past. It's okay if you're grieving the life you might have had without homeschooling. It's okay if you're conflicted. I hope you're able to find closure and healing in whatever form that means for you.

And, because I know it unfortunately needs to be said, if you're an ex-homeschooler or a homeschool parent who feels the need to jump on this post and defend yourself, I need you to step back, sit down, delete your comment, and sit with why you feel so attacked by our truth.

This is not a personal attack on you - this is abuse survivors speaking up to prevent further abuse. It is not your place to tell us we should be silent.

"But homeschoolers test better and are more successful!" I'm sure you're dying to say. To wave your statistics at me.

And you would be wrong. Because here's the problem with those statistics.

Let's pretend we have ten homeschooled children and ten public schooled children.

All ten of the public schooled children take a school assessment. Because some excel at different things than others, the public school students average out to an 85.

Only four of the homeschooled children take the assessment. Of the other six, one is traveling with their family during the assessment, two are not permitted because their parents know they aren't up to grade level and fear backlash or judgement, two are mentally or physically disabled and so their parents don't feel the test will adequately display their knowledge, and the last hasn't received any kind of education in years because their parents keep them at home either doing chores, working a job, caring for siblings, or they are simply neglected and spend all day hungry and scared.

Of the four homeschooled children that do take the assessment, they do quite well, as their parents knew/suspected they would. Their average score is a 98.

A 98 is better than an 85, yes. But just because 4 out of 6 homeschooled children were above the public school average does not mean homeschooling is automatically better. If you tested the top four public school students, they might very well score a 98 as well.

However, if you included those other six homeschooled students, the average homeschool score would very likely be something closer to a 45.

So when we talk about Homeschool's Invisible Children, we're talking about those six that never got the chance to take an assessment. Those six who never had a chance to tell a teacher "I'm ten and I don't know how to read". Those six who may not even realize how far behind their peers they are. Those six who deserved to have access to supports so that they could learn in ways that actually met their needs.

So while your statistics look good on paper, they are not honest. They do not present the full picture of homeschooling. Listen to the homeschool survivors who were one of those six kids who never got to make their voices heard. We have a voice now - don't try and take it from us.

Resources for current homeschool students and alumni:

Khan Academy - basically free online self paced K-12 classes. They have fantastic explanation videos for the lessons, you can review them whenever you want, and you don't have to stay in the same grade level for every subject - great if you're trying to catch up and you're in 6th grad for English but 2nd for math. They have courses besides just core classes (math/english/science/etc), too! They run on donations, but it's completely free to use. Also, this site is used in my local public school system to supplement the existing curriculum, so it's not just for homeschoolers!

Coalition for Responsible Home Education - actively fighting for more oversight and restrictions on homeschooling in the USA. They mostly do awareness and advocacy, but they also have resources on their site for things like what to do if you don't have a high school transcript. They run on donations, but the information is freely available.

Probably the most famous resource on this list. Videos that give you a "crash course" (aka a condensed overview) of a wide variety of topics. These are best used as supplement to more structured lessons like Khan Academy, but they have a lot of merit on their own if they're all you can manage. Knowing a bit about something is better than knowing nothing about it!

[halebobgr]

happy birthday to THE Cloud Strife who everyone adores

[dazy-den]

Maybe it’s the Jacob Portman hater in me but I can’t help but think the series would have been a thousand times better with any other main character…

[one-shitpost-a-day]

ok i have felt a need to yap about this for years and years so imma do it here. listen hey guys you know that game you play in your head when youre looking out the car window??? where u imagine a dude doing epic parkour running and flipping tricks on the sidewalk to keep up with your car?? apparently lots of people do it and sometimes it's referred to as invisible person/car parkour??? ok so me and my sister both did this when we were wee children but we took it further (we thought we were geniuses and that we invented this whole thing) by adding whole entire different avatars and stuff like that. each avatar had its own special quirk (the paper airplane could turn sideways in order to travel along walls, the monkey could lasso his tail around streetlights, etc.). and ALSO if your avatar touched certain signs they would get EPIC POWERUPS (for example green might've been high jumps for 10 seconds like in subway surfers, yellow was +10 coins or whatever even though neither of us had a good enough memory to keep track of coins, blue was special powerup). also you weren't allowed to touch the plants growing on the highway walls. and there were all sorts of rules regarding what you had and didn't have to jump (always jump driveways and wall columns and fire hydrants). literally why was this the most fun stuff ever anyway if anyone wants to hear the full details of this awesome game that we made up i will try to find the very old paper that i wrote everything down on (i attached it to this crusty ahh aquamarine clipboard so hopefully it won't be too hard to locate)

[milfsoup]

even if jon snow wasn't a bastard he would have no claim to the iron throne because the law of the targaryen monarchy was abolished.

the only thing he would be able to claim would be dragonstone and even then that's part of the new royal house (baratheon), whose placement gives credit to cersei's rule (as dowager queen and regent) more than it does anyone else

also, daenerys' claim is only being laid down by force. kind of like opening a new account with no connection to previous users. the only way in which jon snow could get to claim anything is through brute force, which he doesn't have and isn't interested in using

nevermind that this premise was probably created only by the writers trying to merge aegon's path in the books with jon. even if jon snow wasn't a bastard then, aegon would be the elder brother. who, again, has to claim the throne through either force or diplomacy (targaryen government and dynasty no longer in place). i don't think he'll be quick or strong enough to be able to stand in a position where he has to negotiate with daenerys to not get burned alive though.

[methoughtsphantom]

Idea that Danny found himself in an alternate dimension and so when he goes to find his alternate self because this is around the area Amity Park should be and his house, he gets the wrong black haired blue eyed child.

Yep, he thinks he’s deceased Jason Todd, instead of neighbor kid Tim Drake.

Danny wonders wherever it’s his fate to die before he is old enough to drive.

[gareteddybear]

Hello, citizens of Moominvalley!

[korya-elana]

I seriously need someone else to take the reins at doctor's appointments at this point. I'm sick of being spoken down to and my issues being disregarded and I just grit my teeth and smile and nod along because I'm too afraid of conflict to stand up for myself in that kind of setting because I'm worried about being labelled a problem and consequently never getting the help I need again as a severely disabled adult. I don't even have a history of medical abuse what the fuck. I'm so mad. This doctor is so bad.

[innytoes]

Dark fantasy AU?

-In hindsight, as he's being chased through the forest, hunted by mythical creatures is not where Reggie thought he'd end up when his folks told him they were moving to Los Angeles. Honestly, considering how he used to roam the woods and fields near his Meemaw's farm, the fact that he'd stumbled into a fairy circle near the beach was almost insulting.

-It's not even that he manages to outrun them. It's that one night (he thinks it's night, though time moves differently here and light and dark are all tangled up and is the purple haze of the sky supposed to be dusk or dawn or just a dark stop of the forest?) he'd decided to just... give up.

He couldn't remember how long he'd been running, running from the pounding of hooves and the yapping of dogs that did not look anything like what a dog should look like. He couldn't remember a time where he wasn't hungry, or thirsty, or tired, but something inside of him just kept making him run and run and run

-But he'd had enough. So he just sat down, with his back towards the noise, and hoped they'll kill him quickly. And to comfort himself, he sang the lullaby his Meemaw used to sing when he was scared of the thunder.

-That's what saved him. One of the fae, Caleb, was so charmed by the song that instead of doing whatever it is they did with their prey, he bundled Reggie up and took him to his... castle. Dwelling. Domain.

-He was dressed in finery and made to sing as Caleb and the other fae danced and ate and did things that Reggie very much had not wanted to see, thank you very much. But eventually, they slept, and Reggie met... the other humans who were trapped here.

-Luke, a young boy who had run away from home to become a musician in 1875. He was distraught to hear Reggie tell him it was the nineties now. Even more distraught when Reggie clarified it was the 1990s.

-There was Alex, who had been cast out of his village for reasons he did not want to share, but that Reggie figured out pretty quickly when he saw the way he looked at Willie. He'd fallen asleep near a fairy circle, and the promises he'd been made had been so tempting, he'd said yes before he fully understood the deal.

-And then there was Willie. The boy who had been stolen from his parents, a changeling left in his place. Who had grown up here, a part of this world yet not really. Who did not know what the other boys meant when they talked about years, or America, or really the whole concept of 'family'.

-Luke's the one who tells them of their escape plan. Alex is worried they can't trust Reggie not to rat him out to Caleb, and Reggie is like: um excuse me I was just hunted for sport for who knows how long you think I wanna help that guy?

-But before he can Willie just tilts his head and says: his heart is pure.

-Which is very sweet but also a little creepy.

-Anyway, they do manage to escape Caleb's clutches somehow, and end up back in the human world.

-Being yeeted out of a little ring of mushrooms in the soil of a plant Ray overwatered in the big plant wall of the Molina studio was not particularly pleasant, okay. Considering a real human should not be able to fit through that. But Willie explained that as soon as a fairy portal grew, it was only a manner of time that the fairies would notice it and stake it out to see what they could lure to their realm.

-Somehow, Luke and Alex get thrown clear across the room, Luke slamming against the door, Alex dropping onto the concrete floor.

-Reggie's not sure if him crashing against a pretty wooden piano is better or worse. The sound it made was definitely worse.

-Somehow, Willie ends up sitting crosslegged on the little piano bench, and he turns and quickly crushes up the mushrooms to destroy the portal.

-Julie, of course, is screaming, Alex and Luke and Reggie are screaming. Willie is trying to explain to Julie she over-watered her fern and pouts when she runs away.

-No they're not ghosts but they are changed and they all have weird powers. Luke nearly cries with joy that he can still summon his guitar. Alex is really not okay with this whole 'walking through walls' thing. Reggie is sad he cannot summon a puppy or a pizza.

-Willie can teleport short distances and is shocked to learn humans can't just do that? You have to walk everywhere? Or ride a horse. What's a car? What's roller skates? He needs to see one of these skateboad things immediately, let's summon the human girl back to ask for one. What can they trade for a skateboard?

-They're kind of freaked out at the whole 2020 thing, but hey, Reggie's like: at least it hasn't been a hundred years like when I told Luke about the 90s.

-Queue canon but it's even worse and more chaotic.

[inkyquill553]

Based on this by Liz Climo:

Idk I saw it and immediately thought of them lol

[vampire-rodeo]

new autism creature dropped

[studiolemonboy]

Day 16: Invisible Man

Season of the Bad Guys 8