Four dudes put baby goat on pedastle, feed him snacks and sing to him about himself. I think this is the best and most pure thing I have ever witnessed
“Eat what ya got”
The bleating is what gets me every time.
i believe the phrase GOAT was invented for this video
Native parents from around the world held their very young children’s hands as they walked them to boarding schools and residential schools. Some Native parents were forced to completely sign away their guardianship to principals of these “schools”, or face jail time. Others were visited by policemen, who forcibly seized their children from them. A few were undermined by “Indian Agents” on reservations, who withheld their rations on ration days. Some children never saw their parents again.
Boarding schools were built to “assimilate” the Native population into a white society, targeting their children. It had been assumed that conversion to Christianity and assimilation was “for the best interests” of Native and Indigenous people in Australia, the US, and Canada. The Native children were not allowed to practice skills relevant and appreciated to their cultures, such as carving. They were disallowed to speak in their native tongues, and were often physically, sexually, and psychologically tormented for doing so.
A five year old Native boy is raised by his family to know his hair as an extension of his soul, and that people only cut their hair if they experienced a loss of a loved one, a loss of a relationship, or a loss of oneself. As a stranger cuts off the little boy’s hair in order to better assimilate the child into the sex-based roles of a white male, the Native child is left quietly wondering who it is that has died, where his family went, and why the other children are being beaten for speaking to one another.
Only a small portion of each day was spent learning academically at these “schools”. Most of the day the children were exploited for their labor.
How the labor was divided was based upon the Native child’s sex.
Native girls were expected to do the domestic labor that was expected of white girls and women, such as cooking and cleaning, and Native boys were expected to perform manual labor, such as farm work, blacksmithing, and shoemaking. The children would reach a point where they would be “phased out” of these boarding schools for a summer or year at a time and forced to perform labor for private white and wealthy families who did not want these jobs and duties themselves.
Many boarding schools and residential homes had an overwhelming death rate from Tuberculosis, which swept through these schools and homes. Tuberculosis kills it’s victim within ten days. Native children were forced to play and sleep alongside other Native children who had contracted tuberculosis so that they, too, would die. Boarding schools suffered a 50% or higher death rate because of this, effectively reducing the Native population in an attempt to eradicate them.
Maisie Shaw, age 14, was kicked down a flight of stairs by Alfred Caldwell, the principal of the residential school she was forced to stay in and killed.
Other small skeletons of Native children have been found in church basements, which served as residential homes and boarding schools.
Other children were forced into prostitution rings.
Over fifty thousand children in Canada’s First Nations residential schools were beaten, raped, suffered from electrocutions and electroshock therapy, were forcibly sterilized, often medically experimented on, starved, and murdered.
It wasn’t until 1978 in the US that Native parents won the rights to deny sending their children to boarding schools. This wasn’t that long ago. In 1978, my mother was 21 years old.
In Australia, the residential homes lasted until 1984.
In Canada, the last residential home was closed in 1996.
The Canadian Government is still fighting against making reparations to Native communities, and there are still monuments to people who instituted the residential school system. There are still monuments dedicated to people who offered bounties for scalps.
And despite being ordered multiple times by a Human Rights Tribunal to stop fucking around and stop discriminating against Native children, the Liberal government of Canada is still refusing to put any effort in to helping Native children and Native communities.
Our government is literally spending millions of our tax dollars fighting a legal battle because they don’t want to stop discriminating against children.
I grew up going to school in rural Alberta in the 1980′s and residential schools were mentioned in Social Studies class as something that happened a long time ago and weren’t that bad.
Imagine my horror when, as a 30-year-old adult, I learned that when I was learning this was ancient history, kids my own age were still being forced to live at these schools.
I’m 40 years old (nearly 41). People my age are dealing with the trauma and aftermath of this garbage, and white people in this country keep saying “it’s history, just get over it.”
Because we weren’t taught that it was current events, we were taught that it was history.
Special Interest is exclusive to autistic people as we have been pathologized for our special interests.
Hyperfixation is the community wide term, and was coined specifically so people with ADHD could talk about the shared experiences around having hyperfixations/special interests without appropriating special interests.
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That “special interest” is autism-specific and people with ADHD should say “hyperfixation” instead is not a consensus of the autistic community, and the human brain is not actually configured according to our political distinctions in terminology.
My opinion is that the ADHD blog (whose author I know personally) was correct, and autism-asks is incorrect.
Neurodivergent people should be able to use the words that accurately describe what we are experiencing. (FWIW, I am autistic, I do not have ADHD.) Some people with ADHD experience interests or passions in a way that isn’t substantially distinguishable from the way in which autistic people experience this phenomenon. They may not be pathologized for it in exactly the same way, but that isn’t what determines whether the experience itself is pretty much the same thing.
And like a LOT of people are diagnosed with ADHD (whether correctly or not) before they’re diagnosed with autism (whether instead of or in addition to ADHD). Their “hyperfixations” do not suddenly become “special interests” when their diagnosis changes.
And a lot of people who don’t qualify for any specific diagnosis experience isolated features of autism, because autism is caused by the combined effects of lots of common genes. 90% of mothers of autistic kids, whether they’re autistic themselves or not, experience some kind of sensory processing anomaly.
They deserve to be able to call those experiences what they are, in a way that enables them to make themselves understood. Nobody is helped by falsely separating out the allowed language for who is experiencing what, if they are substantially the same thing.
I do not know how things got this way, but I think some folks could stand to…learn to appreciate that some neighborhoods of the autistic and ADHD communities think of these topics a little differently than they do. People with ADHD who subscribe to this way of talking about them are not in the wrong.
(And some of us with autism hate the term “special interest.” Honestly, ADHD’ers can have it for all I care.)
I am kind of done with gatekeeping tbh going on like… My opinion is to agree that the ADHD blog was correct. I’m autistic and have ADHD so like… definitely not a consensus in all parts of the autistic community that it’s “appropriating” “special interest.”
As a person that has a great deal of difficulty with words – yeah, I am done with people trying to gatekeep them.
If a word fits what you mean to say please use it. Making up new words for each subset of humanity makes communication HARDER not EASIER.
Words have meanings, not owners.
I generally agree. It’s describing the same damn symptom. I’ve heard that “special interest” is an ableist term from an abusive therapy so that’s why its autism exclusive, but I’ve never seen any sources for it so _(シ)_/.
Actually, the term is REALLY OLD. Was not originally related to anything specific – no diagnosis or anything. Clubs and social organizations have been using it since before autism was a diagnosis (see Mensa, for example). Most older social organizations have “Special Interest” groupings of some sort, aimed at attracting people who have some really strong attachment to specific topics. It was not used by the abusive groups BECAUSE of that affiliation with respected organizations – they do not want to imply the members of elitist clubs are ‘bad’ in any way – that’s where they get their funding. The attempt to say it is “only for autistics” is just gatekeeping to try to make being autistic some exclusionary thing – and as a nonverbal autistic, I say no – do not try to make my life harder just to grab at some bit ‘exclusionism’ you (general) can use to feel special.
Honestly, ADHD person chiming in, the reason, the only reason, I use hyperfixation, is because the way I experience my hyperfixations does seem to be substantially different from the way people experience special interests.
For me, hyperfixations are intense while they last but can end up dropping themselves for the next shiny thing much more easily than it seems from out here that special interests can. (I say drop themselves because I’m not consciously doing the dropping.) They can also go latent for weeks, months, years, decades. The infodumps seem to be shorter, too. I *need* to tell you about my hyperfixation, but only for a minute or two. My hyperfixations are marked by brief, fiery intensity, where I have very little control over how incredibly focused I am on them, but they might end or pause at any time. This makes sense, as they are the subjects of my hyperfocus.
Examples:
Babylon 5 – I know a whole heck of a lot about it, can recite a lot of it, keep coming back to it…but I might go years without watching an episode. If someone brings it up, or I feel wounded inside and need reliable comfort, though, Babylon 5 comes roaring back. I go through cycles of hyperfixation with Babylon 5.
Second Life – When I did it I did it for hours a day. I loved it intensely. I did cool things with it. I shut out the world when I was on it. It was all I wanted to talk about. Then it stopped running well on my computer and I found other things to do and *poof* hyperfixation gone.
If an ADHD person has a special interest, they should probably be allowed to describe it as a special interest. However, if I say I have a hyperfixation, I don’t mean special interest, and I would be frustrated if someone labelled it one.
Is why I said “If a word fits what you mean to say please use it.” in my first response 😀 Telling people what words to use based on which subset of which divergence they might have and the color of the sky at the time they are speaking is making word salad out of what used to be perfectly useful terms.
Words have meanings, not owners.
One thing I do want to clarify.
I use “special interest” when answering the “hyperfixation” asks if I think that’s what they’re talking about, because I’m not always sure. “Hyperfixation” was proposed as an umbrella term, which means it could be used in place of “special interest” OR “hyperfocus” OR “obsession” OR any other term related to these kinds of phenomena.
In the previous uses of the term “hyperfixation” in the psych literature, it was used to mean exactly the same thing as “special interest.” This just adds to my confusion when people use it in asks. Like, I totally understand where @teasugarsalt is coming from, and that use makes way more sense to me than the way ADHDers are being told to use it.
When someone writes in asking about a “hyperfixation” I answer it the way I think the person means, and I use the corresponding term that seems to apply for two reasons: first, to make sure I’m understanding correctly; and second, to make sure the person knows the other terms are okay to use. Because a lot of people who use “hyperfixation” do so because they’ve been treated badly by other people for using a different term.
I use “special interest” for myself, as well, and sometimes when I’m answering an ask about “hyperfixation” I end up talking about my own experiences with special interests. This is another clarity issue.
The proposal of “hyperfixation” in 2015 muddied the waters way too much and I don’t think anyone has actually figured it out yet. Also, if you use “hyperfixation” in general company you may get blank looks. “Special interest” will get everyone nodding along.
I have alluded to sheep being a rather unfortunate species in terms of survival, and many of you have been patiently waiting for me to elaborate. I intend to start now. So let me try to explain just a fragment of why we veterinarians say “the goal in life of a merino ewe is to die, and take 50 of her closest friends with her).
Sheep (specifically in Australia where we probably have more than 70 million of them) can and do die in any of these ways:
If it rains too much while a sheep has a full fleece. They get soaked, weighed down, can’t move and die.
If it rains too much when a sheep has too little fleece, they get hypothermia and die
If it rains too little, there’s no water to drink and they die.
If there’s not enough grass or food available, they die.
If they eat too much perennial ryegrass, the most common pasture species in Australia, they can develop tremors from the neurogenic toxins it contains, and die.
Annual rye grass, which is the second most common pasture species, also causes staggers if the grass carries a particular bacteria, and if sheep eat too much or it then they die.
Merino sheep in particular are often bad mothers. They commonly (20-30%) will give birth and just wander away without a second thought, leaving the lamb to die.
We also have foxes that like to eat lambs (or at least their tongues), sometimes while they are being born, and they die.
Eagles will also take lambs or young sheep, and then they obviously die.
Sheep pregnant with twins are susceptible to Twin Lamb Disease where the mother physically cannot consume enough energy for herself and the growing fetuses. Without great care they will all die.
Sheep producing milk commonly develop hypocalcaemia and can die
Sheep given intravenous calcium to treat the hypocalcaemia, if it is given too fast, will die.
Sheep producing milk on lush pasture are at risk of hypomagnesaemia (grass staggers) and can, you guessed it, die.
Grazing pasture that is too lush or too high in protein can cause bloat, which can take out an entire flock of sheep and cause them to die.
Grazing too much red clover, a very popular pasture species in Australia, can cause both infertility and bloat. Then they die.
Sheep in Australia are very prone to flystrike, where blowflies lay eggs i the wool or flesh of the sheep so maggots can eat them. This starts while they’re alive, but it will cause them to die.
They also carry huge numbers of worms which compete for nutrients from their food, cause diarrhea and can cause sheep to die.
That diarrhea in their wool makes them extra attractive to files and, again, death.
Johne’s Disease is a chronic wasting disease similar to Crohn’s, which will result in a slow wasting away as individuals are often infected for most of their life, and then they die.
And this list is by no means complete.
I laughed 😀 As a sheep keeper though I feel it’s fair to say those Merinos are kind of like the extreme dog breeds with all their various problems. “Primitive” sheep breeds like my Shetlands are excellent mothers and pretty good at not dying #notallsheep
if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.
Its getting close to Halloween again so I just thought I’d reblog this again
And if “don’t be rude to teenagers over a stupid jawbreaker” isn’t enough for you, consider
You can’t tell how old a kid is just by looking. I’ve known multiple 5th graders who were taller than I am, and I’m 25 years old. With their faces hidden by masks, you won’t be able to tell they’re elementary schoolers, but they still are.
Lots of older siblings are expected to take their younger siblings trick-or-treating, and they only get paid in candy.
You don’t know if that teenager is developmentally disabled.
You don’t know if that teenager spent most of their childhood in a hospital or sick and has never had the traditional trick-or-treat experience before.
You don’t know if this is that teenager’s first Halloween in America, and they just want to experience a piece of American culture.
You don’t know if that teenager ever gets candy any other day of the year.
You don’t know if that teenager has eaten anything at all today.
And those are just things I can think of off the top of my head.
Also consider this: Halloween is everyone’s holiday. EVERYONE’S.
If they do the work, they get the candy. Period.
GIVE. THEM. CANDY!!!
Revolutionary (for some reason unpopular) idea:
Everyone gets candy, regardless of dressing up.
I’ve seen a lot of groups of teens, usually boys, sometimes with only one bag between them, maybe some fake blood, shuffling from door to door, trying to get candy. And they get rebuffed, and … man, I just feel like that’s not fair or kind.
Maybe these kids thought they were too cool for Halloween, or were discouraged by others in their life, and then at the last minute kinda lost it because they miss the fun, ONE FRIEND starts it by saying something, the others confess that they feel the same, and so in a show of solidarity, hell, why not?!, they decide to try. Badly, yes, but … a little candy given to strangers as a gesture of goodwill isn’t much to ask.
So at my house, absolutely everyone gets candy. No matter how surly or aloof.
And also, it’s Halloween. Shit is *afoot*. I see someone not apparently dressed up and part of me always thinks “….Maybe I AM seeing the costume.” If their human costume is that good, they, uhhhh, they deserve all the candy they want.
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