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foldingfittedsheets · 5 months

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I’ve got some friends and my betrothed doing a little book club. It started with one friend and we’d leave a comment in discord with the percent we were at and then our thought under a spoiler. When we read that far we’d go back to read the spoiler and respond. Then their hubby wanted an excuse to read more, and my betrothed heard about it and wanted in.

At which point I slid forward The Scholomance series, which I’d been pressuring my betrothed into starting and so everyone took it up. It’s been like crack. I have always loved this series and my betrothed was like, “This sounds like a horrifying depressing setting why do you like it?”

But now they’re all voraciously consuming it and I’m living my absolute best life. I try not to comment much as I don’t want to color their perception but these books are so fucking good and now I get to share thoughts with several other people who are having a wonderful time.

#ramblies #the scholomance #a deadly education #the last graduate #I’m pacing my rereads to their percentages #but I’m a really fast and voracious reader so I’m finishing several books at once and trying to put off my reread until my betrothed hits #about the 20% mark #everyone’s around 1/2 to 3/4 of the way through the second book so I can read my library books while I wait #every reread I get more out of these books and I don’t generally give recommendations on a broad level cause I like to tailor them #but I feel like most people would enjoy these #if you want a better more realistic magic boarding school that is about hope and cooperation #these are good

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memintomori · 3 months

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thank you whoever drew more these on my straw page

#these are good #straw

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alexturner2005 · 8 months

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Arctic Monkeys @ The Armory, Minneapolis 26th Aug. 2023, By london_zh

#these are good #alex turner #nick o'malley #arctic monkeys #am7 tour #minneapolis night two #m

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heymrsamerica · 2 years

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I was asked yesterday about how to make classrooms friendlier for neurodivergent students and there’s sooo much but I will try to squeeze some thoughts on here:

Fostering an environment for learning and fostering an environment for compliance are two different things.

1. Do not ever expect students to make eye contact with you. I hated being forced to make eye contact and that teachers assumed I wasn’t listening if I wasn’t looking at them. I learn best when I DONT look at you so I can actually focus and process your words. And this is very common for Neurodivergent people. Autistic listening is still listening!

2. Do not expect the class to give verbal responses if you need students to respond to something! If you need a response from the class (like to know if they are listening or ready for the next steps), you can ask them to do a gesture like a thumbs up, touching their nose etc..

3. If possible make a designated space in your classroom as a mini sensory area. If it’s in your budget and affordable to you as an educator, please try to Have a variety of fidget tools that cater to different sensory needs (squishy, soft, rough, buttons to press, spinny etc.) and noise canceling headphones, and light sensitivity glasses available in that spot.

If those aren’t in your budget, maybe try cheap coloring books from the dollar store or have some books there (maybe you can get some from a library) that they can read.

Allow them to go to that spot at any time, but set boundaries of fidget tools though! (Such as use these just for yourself, don’t fling them at other people to be silly or they will have to choose another fidget tool.) I call them fidget tools instead of fidget toys if I’m intentionally using them around kids who are learning that it helps disabled people and it’s not just a cool toy. It also helps when kids may be getting a bit silly with it to the point where it is distracting and you can politely redirect them by asking is the fidget TOOL helping or distracting? If it’s distracting, don’t punish them! We don’t want them to associate shame with those. Just say that it’s great that you like them but let’s wait until break to play with it since we are working right now. (When working with children, but especially neurodivergent children, it’s much better to focus on what they CAN do instead of what they shouldn’t do. It creates a positive environment while still setting healthy boundaries. It’s better than an adult barking “no don’t do that.” And autistic kids hear that so much. 😞

4. Be really flexible with assignments. No, not just with deadlines. Be flexible with how the layout of your assignment is! For example, if a student is having a really hard time writing an essay about the assigned topic due to their disability, ask them if they would like to instead record a voice audio/video with them explaining the assigned topic and you would grade their response based on the CONTENT that they said.

If that sounds “easy” I really need you to pause and think about why that bothers you. If the goal is for students to LEARN rather than comply with traditional education standards, wouldn’t the goal of the assignment be to make sure they understand the content and material that’s being taught? I think students can explain content and material in voice recordings OR in writing. And don’t grade their voice Audio based on their speech. Only focus on WHAT they are talking about and if it’s correct and what you were looking for in the goal of assigning this in the first place.

5. Make peer group projects OPTIONAL. If they can’t do the peer group project option, have another option for them to choose.

6. Allow students to stim. And if you do allow them to stim, do so without making them feel embarrassed or bad about it. If the students stimming is genuinely disruptive, find out if the stimming is caused by some sensory distress in the classroom and try to alter it (example: dimming lights) or tell them in private you are glad they feel comfortable stimming AND lets explore alternative stims that can make you comfortable while you’re in a room with other people who have sensory needs too. It could be a chance to direct them to the sensory area in the class too.

7. Let them slouch. Or even lay down while listening and working. Or even walk around a bit while you teach. You don’t need to sit up or sit still to be able to learn.

8. If you know in advance that you were going to have an autistic student, find out from their support team what their interests are and what ways they learn best. Find out if transitions are hard for them and what makes it easier for them. Take time to learn about their special interest so you can try to bond with them to establish trust that you are a safe person to present as their authentic self.

9. For the love of G-d, please let them use the restroom (ALL kids, not just neurodivergent) when needed. Autistic kids actually statistically struggle more with GI issues and also statistically struggle more with urgency urgency or incontinence. We cannot control this. Forcing us to suffer by refusing our request to go to the restroom so you can finish your lecture is really,harmful. Physically and emotionally. I promise you we are not hearing a word of your lecture if we need to go but you say no.

Autistic listening is STILL listening.

Autistic learning is STILL learning.

I’ll scream it from the mountains.

Via The Activist Autistic on Facebook

#autism #stimming #teaching #neurodivergent #these are good

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stankvle · 10 months

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you guys are onto something here

#THESE ARE GOOD #the name one is real and it's also because kyle is an easily feminized name (kylie)

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pikachu-deluxe · 6 months

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trick or treat?? :3

panditas gummies :3c

#ask #honrupi #happy halloween #these are good

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brighteststar707 · 6 months

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I've been influenced

#Saeyoung has a point #These are good #Idk how similar they are to hbc but I'll take it #faye talks

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pipulp · 1 year

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Espeon service animal. Aromatherapy meganium. Mailman pidgeot. Meteorologist dragonair. Bouncer krookodile. Search and rescue drilbur. Lifeguard floatzel. Housekeeper swablu. Wood-fire pizza oven supervisor torchic.

#these are good #pip answers

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adrawrable · 1 year

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Matcha Cupcakes

#food #recipe #cupcakes #matcha #dessert #lrnin2foto #oh my GOD #these are GOOD #baking

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parlerenfleurs · 1 year

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Okay Tumblr is so stressful right now because I have SO MANY parasitic posts on my dash, wether blazed, or from this fucking Emporium thing that I've blocked but I see the the damn sponsored posts anyway, or this fucking ecology post that is utterly irrelevant to me, a French, or these fucking Pikachu man but not posts, again, blocked but they are sponsored so it doesn't do anything, in short, my dash is so often disrupted that the anticipation of KNOWING there will be a jarring post so very soon makes me scroll in a distracted, tense way, so that I don't even pay proper attention to the posts I do want to see anymore.

I could take it if it was less often like it usually is, but it varies according to arcane rules I'm not privy to, and tonight it's unbearable.

@staff what's going on? I don't think this is the way to get people to enjoy their experience here. I know it does the opposite for me, this feels like being on Facebook but worse.

#Tumblr #I am. tired of this #also the stuff people blaze is.... sighs #I usually just block the blogs to ensure I'll never have to see their lukewarm art or perplexing messages again #but I wouldn't have to if they didn't show up several times on my dash #why can't I get the fun posts like the blazed hobbits or more pet pictures #these are good

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femcelhood · 11 months

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*looks you dead in the eyes* I kind of like Coldplay.

#aliens and speed of sound and adventure of a lifetime only #idc about the rest #these are good

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iulianfawcett · 1 year

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28 77 11

28. out of the woods - taylor swift

77. never fuckin know - poutyface