my favourite thing to do is to tell my friends about the wild things victor hugo did and see the look of shock and horror in their faces bc they only know him as the great author who wrote les mis and hunchback and not as the man who gave his fiancee a live bat in an envelope
Day: December 17, 2017
it is VERY difficult taking off shoes while a tiny weasel is demanding love
Sick Children No Longer Something Congress Can Agree On
In an attempt to rush Trump’s tax bill, Republicans are defunding CHIP, a program that protects 9 million children.
Although states do help fund the program, most of the cost is subsidized
by the federal government. Federal funds have already begun to run out,
which means the health care coverage of millions of children will
expire as early as December 2017 in some states, and in the early months
of 2018 for others.What will happen to approximately 9 million children currently covered
by CHIP?In some states, thousands of letters have already been sent out
to parents to inform them that their coverage may end in 2018. Even if
Congress decides to renew CHIP in the coming months, the damage has
already been done…
hi!! not trying to be rude!! But I wanted to know if you’re aware that the voltron account is managed by a very real person with feelings and issues that is probably paid p averagely and it might be No Good for them to see stuff like ‘choke’ or ‘die’ bc you don’t know what people, like the very real person who manages their account, might be going thru! i also wanted to know why do u think that having morals and disagreeing with death baiting must b shallies? sorry for my bad english,not fluent!
hi! your english is fine, dont worry about that. heres my response:
im fully aware that the voltron social media accounts are managed by very real people, who i think its safe to assume, are adults. i highly doubt they pay attention to comments made by people in the fandom, ive never seen the tumblr respond to one, and the twitter maybe once.
even if the comments are read, i doubt even more that the person running the account takes them personally. im not entirely sure how social media accounts for shows and corporations work, but im pretty sure the person posting the stuff doesnt decide on their own what to post, and i doubt that me, an angry 15 year old, is going to have absolutely any effect on them and their daily life. what i said had about the same impact of @ing the mcdonalds twitter and telling it to die, as in, it would literally have no effect.
also, im not sure where i ever blamed death baiting on sha/adins. i havent mentioned that anywhere on my blog in a long, long time, so im not really sure what youre referring to in that last bit
“I don’t think the person I told to die is gonna take it personally”
Hi! Um, I’m someone who has handled social media for various organizations for a living, so I wanted to respond to this.
First: every organizational social media account reads every comment. It’s part of the job description. I have never worked on an account where the expectation wasn’t that every comment would be read, even if responding wasn’t an expectation.
Second: while it is almost certainly an adult doing this, it’s still never a nice feeling to have that kind of vitriol directed at you! Especially because there’s every chance that the social media manager works closely with the voltron team, which isn’t a huge group. They probably care about the show just like you! Basically, if you wouldn’t say it to a retail workers face, don’t say it to a corporate social media account.
Third: I don’t know about their account specifically, but in some of my jobs if somebody made a threatening comment or an outright threat I had to go through a logging process for legal reasons.
Fourth: have you….. ever tweeted at McDonald’s? They respond to EVERYTHING. They find you if you mention them. It might not ruin anyone’s day entirely if you threatened the McDonald’s account, but you can bet that they’d see it and know.
I’m confused about this kind of mentality because if they think their words don’t have any impact, why are they so fixated on telling people to die to the point where they defend it? Why would you do a thing if you thought it didn’t have any effect, and then turn around and pretend this is for a cause? If nothing comes of it, how does it benefit a cause?
if you want to ask a bisexual or asexual person about their sexual history to verify that they’re queer, but you don’t want them to take it the wrong way, try this useful communication technique:
give them twenty dollars and go away.
As a bi person, I can attest to the beneficiality of this method.
As an asexual, I concur as well
This works with pansexuals too, btw.
Tbh, I would be tempted just to make more yakisoba tomorrow, since there’s also plenty of sauce left. But Mr. Picky Eater is on the way back now, and that’s just too sweet for him in a savory dish.
May end up just using different seasoning for some quick noodles anyway.
And the rest of that sauce should hold quite a while in the fridge.
Tonight’s delight: Some chicken yakisoba, thrown together with odds and ends of veggies and some frozen precooked chicken bits.
(Also GF spaghetti, because that was the best thing I had. Not classic, but it’s not a bad choice. One of those easy dishes great for using whatever you’ve got, anyway.)
I forgot to put any aonori on top before starting to chow down on that bowl, so just imagine some dry parsley looking stuff on top 😉 Nice touch, but delicious without.
That ended up being more vegetable prep than I had planned for. (Bagged cole slaw mix is handy if you can get it. Not really a thing here.) But, there should be plenty of veggies left for some other dish for both of us to eat tomorrow!
As bad as I always am at judging amounts, I only used half the vegetables I cut up for the noodles. And that made two pretty big bowls worth, which was about twice as much as planned 🙄 With a pretty high proportion of veggies–harder to see there with it heavy on the cabbage.
Not about to complain, though, because yummy noodles. The second bowl may not be hot out of the pan, but hey.
What’s the Real Lesson?
Here’s something that happens to ADHD children a lot: Getting pushed beyond their limits by accident. Here’s how it works and why it’s so bad.
Child says, “I can’t do this.”
Adult (teacher or parent) does not believe it, because Adult has seen Child do things that Adult considers more difficult, and Child is too young to properly articulate why the task is difficult.
Adult decides that the problem is something other than true inability, like laziness, lack of self-confidence, stubbornness, or lack of motivation.
Adult applies motivation in the form of harsher and harsher scoldings and punishments. Child becomes horribly distressed by these punishments. Finally, the negative emotions produce a wave of adrenaline that temporarily repairs the neurotransmitter deficits caused by ADHD, and Child manages to do the task, nearly dropping from relief when it’s finally done.
The lesson Adult takes away is that Child was able to do it all along, the task was quite reasonable, and Child just wasn’t trying hard enough. Now, surely Child has mastered the task and learned the value of simply following instructions the first time.
The lessons Child takes away? Well, it varies, but it might be:
-How to do the task while in a state of extreme panic, which does NOT easily translate into doing the task when calm.
-Using emergency fight-or-flight overdrive to deal with normal daily problems is reasonable and even expected.
-It’s not acceptable to refuse tasks, no matter how difficult or potentially harmful.
-Asking for help does not result in getting useful help.
I’m now in my 30’s, trying to overcome chronic depression, and one major barrier is that, thanks to the constant unreasonable demands placed on me as a child, I never had the chance to develop actual healthy techniques for getting stuff done. At 19, I finally learned to write without panic, but I still need to rely on my adrenaline addiction for simple things like making phone calls, tidying the house, and paying bills. Sometimes, I do mean things to myself to generate the adrenaline rush, because there’s no one else around to punish me.
But hey, at least I didn’t get those terrible drugs, right? That might have had nasty side effects.
#I wonder if this might potentially apply to people with autism as well?#because I haven’t been diagnosed with adhd but MAN do I fee this#and like I had the situation a lot of people went through#breezed through elementary and high school and in gifted and talented#but then college happened and I was LOST
There’s a lot of overlap between ADHD traits and autism traits. Whether you meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, too, I have no idea (because I’m a random person on the Internet), but you might find ADHD resources helpful in figuring out your life challenges.
A lot of “help” for executive function skills comes from neurotypicals who are naturally good at it and lack insight into people who aren’t, which makes it spectacularly useless to the people who actually need it.
Well shit this explains so much about me
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