#school troubles

[more-youthlib-now]

how teachers GENUINELY look at you when you spend your weekend having a weekend instead of working studying for 16 hours a day 7 days a week

[iwillfixyoubabe]

I will fix you!

All of your troubles can be fixed by yours truly (me)

You can ask me anything at anytime! I will respond as quickly as I can but I have to warn you, i'm no rabbit.

I can help with:

Relationship Problems

Family Drama

Personal Issues

Asshole Friends

Moral Dilemmas

If Jeremy was correct all along

Questions about life (and death!)

I am not a professional in anything, just a girl with wisdom

[bigfriedbassoon]

i am so sick of ableist views of madness in hamlet: an infodump with required reading

honestly the dichotomy commonly drawn between ophelia and hamlet's 'madness' in analysis is so rooted in ableism that it essentially neutralizes any reading of the text that incorporates either 'madness' as a more genuine loss of faculty.

i'm always irritated by how 'madness' presents in one being used to prove or disprove 'madness' in the other, as though they both don't do exactly the same things to precisely the same end.

because we apparently understand the motive and 'method' of hamlet's 'madness' we can relate with him more, which makes him less 'mad' in our eyes.

and yet how ophelia reports hamlet's behaviour is exactly how we as the audience experience her behaviour when she is rendered 'mad'.

That is not to say there is not madness in hamlet. BUT NOW YOU GON LEARN.

a) 'hamlet isn't crazy because there REALLY IS A GHOST WE SAW IT but ophelia is crazy because we don't see her see a ghost' is an incredibly unimaginative and uncurious take and i'm sick of it.

b) 'ophelia is crazy for mourning her father in a way that is precisely how hamlet who is NOT CRAZY BECAUSE HE TOLD US mourns his father' is ableism plain and simple. ableism before anything else. it's the same patterns for the two of them but we do not have the privilege of interiority with ophelia. if you only care to comprehend a 'mad' person's perspective or humanity when they can explain it to you in way you can understand, you're being ableist.

c) 'hamlet isn't crazy' is a read that should always be challenged with 'why not?' in my opinion. why isn't he? what does he do that's not crazy? what accounts for his sanity apart from his eloquence? is it the fact he has friends? or a social standing? some capacity with live blades? how would the play change if he weren't sane?

d) no for real, read c) again. is his behaviour only acceptable if he's sane? do we only root for him if he's sane?

e) likewise, audiences should probably be questioning 'ophelia goes mad' as an unshakable truth. especially if she's only doing what sane people do in this play when confronted by the brutal death of their father at the hands of someone in the Danish royal family. Just saying!

f) read 'disability as masquerade' by tobin siebers. READ IT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS A LINK TO THE FUCKING ESSAY. don't talk to me about hamlet unless you've read 'disability as masquerade' by tobin siebers in its entirety.

g) once you have read 'disability as masquerade' by tobin siebers in its entirety, please apply the following quotes to hamlet (tbh he does this for you):

To pass or not to pass-that is often the question. But do these two narratives about disability illustrate the conventional understanding of keeping secrets about identity?- how are ophelia and hamlet able or unable to manage the stigma of their 'madness'? how is this ability or inability informed by education, gender, and class?

Some people keep secrets; other people are secrets. Some people hide in the closet, but others are locked in the closet. There is a long history, of course, of locking away people with disabilities in attics, basements, and backrooms-not to mention the many institutions created to keep secret the existence of disabled family members.- how are ophelia and hamlet kept away from others when their behaviour is deemed unacceptable by family members and others? For instance, can either of them go to school? Can either of them date who they like or correspond freely? How do methods of control differ for ophelia and hamlet?

'The masquerade may contravene an existing system of oppression. Reasons for the masquerade can be as simple as preserving energy and as complicated as making a joke or protest at the expense of the able-bodied.' how do ophelia and hamlet's masquerades hamper and confound those around them?

'voluntary slips and disclosures always involve self-presentation, and when not an act of private communication between people with disabilities, they may serve a variety of purposes.' - How does Hamlet's calculated exaggeration of mental instability for the court mirror Siebers' and Zola's experiences at the airport, or the ADAPT protests at Capitol Hill? Even if he is consciously feigning mad behaviour in a prescribed moment, does this actually preclude Hamlet from being mad?

'The punch line describes the young artist's happiness, despite his supposedly diminished capacity to be happy, with the fact that people love his art, suggesting some kind of breakthrough produced by his artistic abilities: "To what extent Jonathan knows the hit he has made is not clear. 'Jonathan's capacity to understand is not that great/ Mrs. Lerman said. 'I said, "People really love your art," and he was happy.'"'- in her reporting of Ophelia's death, Gertrude presents the subject as 'incapable of her own distress.' to what degree do the able-bodied construct narratives around the inner lives of the disabled, and how often do we believe them without a thought to the obvious contradictions?

'Imagine if health were really the hallmark of one's humanity, if it were in fact possible to go through life without ever being sick.'- This is just a good quote from this essay that people should think more seriously about. In life as well as hamlet. but hey, are ophelia and hamlet less human because they might be sick?

h) and now we all know and can agree that the mad vs not mad debate is not as scintillating as we have been led to believe by every able bodied person who's played ophelia or hamlet in the past. I'm so glad everyone who wants to talk about madness and grief in hamlet has read this vital essay foundational to both disability and madness studies and won't be incredibly insulting, glib, or non-intersectional about madness and grief in Hamlet. woo!

[almaprincess66]

Hey so how does on stop worrying about school?

Because In my free time I can't concentrate on studying. But I feel bad because I'm not studying so I guilttrip myself into studying. And then I feel awful while studying. (I'm having borderline panic attacks)

So how does one stop? Also how do you explain it to a professional without making them concerned?

[candiedliarnikki]

ive been so busy with my assignments ive been forgetting to eat lunch and sometimes i hallucinate captain caviar cookie chilling next to me and we converse via telepathy. when i eat dinner he goes away. should i get this checked out guys

[the-artist5917]

I am in literal agony rn.

I'm currently in class. We're doing this assignment where I have to put my dead name on the page and not the one I prefer. I hate it so much. And now we're doing a group project where I have to tell my partner my dead name and I don't even know this guy.

I don't even talk at all in school and I have to tell this guy I've never even seen in my life my dead name.

I'm so close to giving up and just taking the F.

[sapphtalks]

listen to the crazy bitch try and fail to teach us chemistry: ❌️

drawing a bunch of hilariously off model sapphs: ✅️

[wanderingmind867]

I realize there may be people who want an update on school after my many vent posts. Not much to tell beyond what I've already said recently, sadly. Although my period 1 teacher started the day downright decent, he eventually told me to stop moving my leg so much (even though this is something I think I do subconsciously and instinctively). So there went all goodwill. I swear, the man is so unpredictable. I'm just glad I'm able to text my dad in class whenever I'm stressed. That does help me manage sometimes. And I'm still nervous for today, of course. But the ability to text my dad really does help.