#this is my 5th read through

[apocalympdicks]

so im annotating my copy of my heart is a chainsaw. its just highlights. Purple. The anotation is Autism. No further explination.

[alevolpe]

My books and manga. I'm aiming to expand it this year!

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Also Makoami bonus cause I'm normal about them

[professional-sniper-lover]

I’m on the 7th chapter and I’m not ready for it to end. I can’t. I can’t do it. It’s so so good.

It’s 2 am I gotta sleep but I just had to say something.

Go read it if you like pain and fun and silly and sweet speedingbullet. I cannot describe it well enough but it’s just fantastic

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[riiviir]

hey guys so I just started reading Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott and OMG AHSBNSBSBSNSNBSHZHSHDBFHGGHFHGRJ2KSHSBSNSK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE THINKING ABOUT THE RELATIVITY BETWEEN DIMENSIONS!!!!!!

[princescar]

A bit old but after the mikan and rei comparison I should probably keep picking through KK since most of yall dont even know that it exists

[sysig]

Sorry, I can’t, I’m just too cute today 💕 (Patreon)

[bsideheart]

i'm going to finish my reread of aftg today

[fandommusings]

I met 5 out of the 6 students on my Kindergarten self contained autistic support class and I gotta say I think I legitimately have been blessed with the best, sweetest, and MOSE ENTHUSIASTIC class ever!

[nockstormbringer]

Guys once I finish rereading the Harry Potter books and going into major deep dives of the marauders fandom, I’m gonna write for some of the characters

[karinasbaby]

rereading the first paragraph of my work and seeing a grammatical error literally made me feel like i just got ran over by a truck oh my GOD

[james-p-sullivan]

why does this stupid two issue manga that was released in 2004 have such a fucking grip over my life god dammit

[llycaons]

"Lan Zhan, it took me years to get a single look from you. It took me years to earn your trust. It was always me - making the first step, confessing, telling you that I love you. It was always me planning all the trips and dinners and anniversaries. It was me getting these cushions and those plates, Lan Zhan."

wow so he's always fucking sucked

[visenyaism]

do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)

It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:

It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)

It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.

It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.

It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.

It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.

It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.

It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.

It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.

It’s the learning loss from covid.

It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.

It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.

It’s increasing phone use.

It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.

It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.

It’s starting to also be generative AI.

It’s the book bans.

what did I miss.

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[die-tenebris]

Would like to impart to people how thoroughly we are Not taught anything in american school systems; they'd just Say Things and never provide any surrounding context like where something happened on a map which led me, as a smaller kiddo, to think the renaissance entirely took place in what I thought was the middle of europe (about where czechia is) and I'm also realizing we never got shown where the Galapagos islands were, for all the talk there was about them

(obviously I know all of this now and that was entirely through my own effort, just know the way we're taught is very much anti thought and understanding)