What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.
What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’snot merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the ‘unworthy’ rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.
Hello sweet people, well… As a lot of you probably know, I’m a trans person who struggles with some awful dysphoria. I don’t have a binder since I can’t afford one, I’ve been wanting one for so many years.
Because of [this] post I started getting some amazing asks from some of you, and I honestly still can’t believe it all happend! So, with all the support you all gave me, I decided, with the very good help of my boyfriend, to use paypal so the ones that said they’d help me by donating, can do it! Gosh, I still feel like it’s a dream.
Living with dysphoria is not easy, it’s hard as hell. Since I can’t afford top surgery at all, using a binder would change my life. I could never thank you all enough for all the support, the sweet messages.
This is something I’ll never forget. And if it all works, I’ll probably post a picture using the binder! Thank you, thank you so much.
I’m not sure if I say this enough. But even though this is an advice blog, all of you help me so much, with the kind messages, the reblogs to support my work here, when I get asks about how your life is going with your recovery. All of it I keep in my heart, and this is another memory I’ll keep with me forever. Thank you. ❤
It’s really not a “gen z are funnier than millennials” thing it’s just that high schoolers are consistently the funniest people alive no matter what year it is
It’s the insanity of being stuck in a building with a thousand other people your age who are all chronically sleep-deprived and panicking.
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