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Educator, learner, parent, gardener, friend. I love my job at a leading school for brilliant neurodivergent teenagers. Better and happier with each decade of my life.
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It should not be controversial to declare "I love my autistic child with all my heart" (and end it right there with no "but..."). #autism #neurodiversity

A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.

Oh dear god I thought this story was already ridiculous enough.

Omg did this dude never take freshman comp. (Don’t answer that.)

The acronym BBB for Repub Budget is apt. That's the credit rating (just above junk) US bonds should get if it passes. #uspol

Autistic young adults’ experiences in physical activity: A phenomenological study journals.sagepub.com...

Summers are like the sabbatical portion of K-12 teaching. So freaking happy to be in the “now I can actually work on course development” season.

It also, as I have been saying on the internet for over 20 years, ignores BIOLOGICAL REALITY. Living things reproduce. By definition.

Life with adhd: cleaned out the bathroom cupboard today bc husband’s post op would care stuff needed room. Found a scrip from 2018 on which he’d written ALLERGIC TO THIS. He has a scrip for it from his surgery. Now calling doc to update scrip. And chart. Bonus pic: bin of shit I’m throwing out.

Remote = tubmote Monorail = mama rail Attention = tubtention Pause/timeout/stop talking = 2 index fingers held vertically next to each other (like the pause symbol on a VCR) Spicy (food) = picey

Re the story going around about the ICE workplace raid in San Diego: make sure that employers know they have the right to tell ICE to fuck off: www.nilc.org/resources/a-...

They’re grabbing people at immigration court and at their restaurant jobs because as we know, hardened criminals and human traffickers always show up for their paperwork appointments and dishwashing gigs.

Great theater here. More like this pls.

Continuing thoughts while husb is napping in VA hosp bed: anyone you know who says the gov is guilty of “waste fraud and abuse,” ask them if they have ever been inside a government facility. I have, a lot. They are decent but FAR less fancy than your average corporate office. Or mall.

Jesus. Christ. Who raised these people?!?

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...