pageofheartdj:

icouldwritebooks:

I love it when the little kids I’m teaching online have complete and total misconceptions of what’s going on. So far, I’ve encountered the following:

1. I had been teaching a little girl for several months, when one day she said to me: “My mother says you’re a real person, not an app. If you’re a real person, show me your husband.”

2. I was about to end a class, but the little girl I was teaching didn’t want the class to end. She turned to her mom and asked if she could please watch one more episode. Turns out she was under the impression that I was a very interactive TV program.

3. I couldn’t find my marker in class today. The boy I was teaching was like, “What’s your apartment number? I’ll come up and help you find it!” The boy lives in China and I live in the United States. I guess most people he knows live in the same building as him, so he assumed I did too.

4. I had been teaching a kid for quite some time when I mentioned my age in class. She was like, “Wait, you’re an adult????” She’d thought I was twelve.

This is so adorable and hilarious

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dragonsateyourtoast:

dragonsateyourtoast:

dragonsateyourtoast:

Being an American right now is so fucked up. Like hi I’m living my life. I’m gay. I’m doing great. My government is trying to take away my human rights. I can vote but it might not do anything because of gerrymandering. Sometimes people here deliberately spread deadly viruses because Freedom. We’re told this is the best country in the world. I can’t escape. I don’t want to leave. I want to escape. I love the land itself. The government is like five steps from actively trying to kill me. We have brand new lawmakers who better understand the will of the people. The highest court in the nation is rigged to side with fascists. I’m graduating soon and I have an incredible life ahead of me. My planet is dying.

What the hell do I even do, man

Like. This sounds overdramatic but you know that scene in the two towers where theoden looks out at saruman’s army and realizes he made all these warriors just to destroy Rohan which is full of innocent people and his people and he says “What can man do against such reckless hate?”

That’s how I feel on a daily basis

I don’t think I CAN do anything except keep doing what I’m doing. Keep myself alive. Make stuff that helps other people be happy. Encourage activism and change. Plant flowers. I have to focus small. There ISN’T anything I can do against the big pharmaceutical companies causing millions of deaths from covid (among thousands of other medical ailments) because they refuse to release the patents on lifesaving medicine. I can’t do anything about it I literally can’t

All I can do is fucking write stories and posts and run stupid little dragon RPGs and plant flowers and hope. But if it helps other people too, what I’m doing, then it’s worth it.

I am very small. I need to remember that and not try to pick a fight with an enemy that’s much bigger than me. It’s not selfish to say it’s probably for the best if I just focus on my life and immediate vicinity. It’s realistic and I think I can do more good this way.

There’s a lot of pressure to like, fight for every problem ever but I think I need to remember I can’t do that and I shouldn’t do that and I need to limit myself to what I CAN do

Idk, it’s clear a few other folks were also Feelin’ This. I guess we all have to scale down. It feels gross because like… Obviously I care about shit that’s happening, but I literally cannot deal with emotionally and intellectually engaging with all the awful news I’m bombarded with.

Being an American right now is still fucking awful, but being me doesn’t have to be

Hey I know it’s long but reblog this version of the post actually

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mullingar:

andrea gibson (“the year of no grudges, or instead of writing a furious text, i try a poem”)

radwolf76:

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deathtoskinnyjeans:

A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:

[Text transcript at the end of the screenshots]

I’ll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.

Most classroom practice is astrology.

Keep reading

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tired-tiefling:

o-lanterns:

chronicallysickchick:

spyrogf:

spyrogf:

Not to offer advice nobody asked for but fixing ur sleep schedule is life changing

Things that actually work if u try at them:

• Drinking water
• No longer making self deprecating jokes
• Making sure to take time out of the day to relax and take a breather
• Lighting candles
• Counting ur breaths in and out if ur having a panic attack
• Getting up and trying to do one thing even if u can’t do everything maybe brushing ur teeth but not having the energy to shower

Taking a shower if you can, putting clean clothes on if you can’t, even just a clean set of pjs. Washing your face.

A couple weeks ago I was in a major depressive slump and was feeling really detached from reality. I was trying so hard to fight it but nothing I tried worked until I realized I hadn’t listened to any happy music in almost a week.

I didn’t feel like listening to anything at all but I put on my favorite playlist anyway. Take On Me started and I finger stimmed to the keyboard riff and hummed along and by the end of the song I was smiling. A few more songs and I was fully singing along and feeling more present than I had in days.

Even if it seems small and trivial, like putting on your favorite socks or looking up pictures of kittens, it might be something you need. Of course the music didn’t solve any of the problems I was upset about, but it did help me feel like I was a person again.

This isn’t one of those “must be good to be neurotypical” posts btw, these are small and accessible steps that can really help.

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nebet-ren:

actualanimevillain:

sometimes you say or do bad things while you’re in an awful mental place. sometimes you say things that are rude or uncalled for or manipulative. and i’m not going to hold that against you. mental illness is hard, and no one is perfect. but once you’re through that episode, you need to take steps to make amends. you need to apologize.

“i couldn’t help it, i was having a bad episode” is a justification, not an apology.

“i’m so fucking sorry, i fucked up, i don’t deserve to live, i should stop talking to anyone ever, i should die” is a second breakdown and a guilt trip. it is not an apology.

when you apologize, the focus should be on the person you hurt. “i’m sorry. i did something that was hurtful to you. even if i was having a rough time, you didn’t deserve to hear that,” is a better apology. if it was a small thing, you can leave it at that.

if you caused significant distress to the other person, this is a good time to talk about how you can minimize damage in the future. and again, even if it is tempting to say you should self-isolate and/or die, that is not a helpful suggestion. it will result in the person you’re talking to trying to talk you out of doing that, which makes your guilt the focus of the conversation instead of their hurt.

you deserve friendship, and you deserve support. but a supportive friend is not an emotional punching bag, and mental illness does not absolve you of responsibility for your actions. what you say during a mental breakdown doesn’t define you. how you deal with the aftermath though, says a lot.

This is the most carefully-nuanced discussion of this I think I have ever seen. Thank you for writing this.

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wwwafflewrites:

So… I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about “life-changing writing advice” all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I’m going to try it.

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