#sorry for this disjointed little rant. i’m just remembering when my fourth grade teacher denied my accommodations and humiliated me | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bigfootshusband · 4 days ago

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i viscerally hate the way we treat kids like their issues don’t matter. i felt like my entire childhood it was pushed on me that i didn’t truly understand real injustice bc i didn’t live in the real world, and now, years later, i look back and realize that so many of those “minor” injustices i faced stemmed from real systemic bigotry or genuine violations of bodily autonomy. more than anything, i wish i could go back in time and tell my childhood self that many of their “fake, little kid problems” were otherwise known as ableism, misogyny, homophobia, abuse, etc, etc. and the worst part about all this is that i know that there are children right now being gaslit in the exact same way, and that i have very limited recourse to help them

#this is ok to reblog if anyone is interested #sorry for this disjointed little rant. i’m just remembering when my fourth grade teacher denied my accommodations and humiliated me #in front of the entire class (multiple instances!!)#and how everyone in my life was like ‘yeah sometimes teachers can be real meanies. be a good girl and forgive her’#as if she was not a middle aged woman picking on a child in front of their peers #and not only that!! but actively and purposefully creating a harmful environment for that child #she did this to multiple kids and i didn’t even experience the worst of it. every disabled child that had the misfortune of being in class #was made to pay for it with with their own wellbeing and emotional security #as well as the literal multiple instances of ‘bullying’ in my middle school that would qualify as assault in the ‘real world’#ableism

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