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rthwrms

a vision of sisyphus

charl0ttan

dog i gotta move like yesterday

pukicho

Please stay

batmanisagatewaydrug

nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

quorpiest

no mi circo no mis feratus

spore-carrier

obsessed

knightkays

Honestly? It drives me crazy that people will see Dooku at his worst, his most heartbroken, his most manipulated, his most isolated, and be like "oh man! this dude saw what was wrong with the jedi!"

like I think that man would give anything to be 12 again and having tea with his Master actually

sparklebog

Didn't realize they made emergency thermal blankets for babies

sparklebog

It's scary to think about babies in an emergency but I guess it's a crazy world out there

Emergency baby

fuckblast

[Francisco de Goya]

badassdemonsword

k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl

i used to be a sad boy that lost his passion for reading and now im a cute dyke with glasses reading books on the train and blushing when pretty girls smile at me from across the car

never kill yourself

k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl

good, that was the point.

i used to be so sad and so miserable and so scared. Now i get to be a pretty girl in public and other girls see me and smile and we compliment each other and it's normal and im happy.

im so fucking happy, even when life sucks, im fucking happy.

punishedsaints

anachronic-cobra

I cannot emphasize enough how exactly accurate this is to working in production

knifenymph

change does not come from a place of comfort

aquareaper3

I find pennies and nickels in my couch all the time, so I don’t know what you are talking about

Mr Chocolate Guy really is out there doing Things huh

Also, rendition of how to enjoy this piece:

captain-price-returns

darkness-and-trees

Here's the thing about homeschooling that I think non-homeschooled kids don't and can't understand. You can have the best parents on the planet with the best intentions on the planet and homeschool will still seriously fuck you up. There is no way to do it ethically. I know because I basically had the best possible homeschooling experience.

My parents pulled me for the fourth grade, and I was homeschooled until the end of high school. Nine entire years. They pulled me from the public schools for a perfectly reasonable reason — my mental health was in the toilet and I needed to be away from other kids who might hurt me as they had spent all of my third grade year doing. My mom has a fucking PhD in neuroscience and tutors math professionally. She was, during the ten years that my siblings and I were homeschooled, the best, kindest, most caring, understanding, lovely teacher you could ask for.

But I'm still broken. That's the thing about homeschool. You can have the best experience possible in homeschool and still come out a fundamentally broken person. My social development stopped at the age of 10. I'm a 22 year old adult woman with the social skills of a 10 year old. That's not to say that that COULDN'T have happened in public school, but being homeschooled only made it more of a certainty. Both of my siblings and I have fewer coping strategies on average than our peers with similar neurodivergencies because we basically did not live in the real world for a decade during key developmental years.

Don't ban homeschooling because of the religious nuts. There are plenty of them. Hell, I KNEW plenty of them. But there are also plenty of quote unquote "good" homeschool families. Ones that do everything you would hope the model homeschool family does. And they are still hurting their children, even if unintentionally, because homeschooling is an inhrently traumatic experience. It's isolating. For seven entire years of my life, I had no friends. Not because I was a social outcast, but because I didn't even SEE anybody regularly enough. But, nonetheless, I knew people. You generally do if you get involved in the community.

Ban homeschooling because it breaks and utterly destroys everyone who goes through it.

Everyone.

I'm sorry, Lauren. I'm sorry, Kade. I'm sorry to the boy whose name I can no longer remember. I'm sorry that I survived and you didn't.

foone

Homeschooling was probably the best possible way for me to get educated, given my particularly blend of neurodivergence: It still messed me up terribly bad, and I was one of the luckiest ones. For most kids it was far, far worse.

I agree 100%

bogleech

For me, getting homeschooled right after 4th grade was because 1) I got constantly sick to the point of missing too much school anyway, 2) this school had mean as hell teachers and 3) I just hated it. It was torture to me. I hated everything about it and still look back on it as 100% pure misery. I was honestly shocked to hear that some kids don't mind or even actually like school.

And I had a great time. I love that I skipped years and years more of child prison and I'm sure I'd have been one of the ostracized kids if I'd gone to high school, I was just too awkward and odd. Terrible adhd. Everyone there would have hated me.

Anyway I think homeschooling should be banned but public schooling should only take half as much time out of a kid's life and de-emphasize the "baby cubicle farm" "sit and listen" approach.

hawkpartys

i misspell genus pernis a lot

great-and-small

When you’re birdwatching and you suddenly spot a honey buzzard

typhus-andronicus

fizpup

Get real.

pastelpolitoed

tumblr glitched while loading this, so instead of "dude get real" being the punchline, it was like this cat put on glasses for the first time and their friend was just. a legit dog. and not like them at all.

fizpup

This is killing me