Dancing Queen

Quick search shows sports magazine and a tech magazine articles on it

And now to the people being angry with me for „spreading misinformation“ because of the PBS thing:

It was a question. I didn’t even put tags on it, because it was a simple question towards my american followers/mutuals to gather information, not to spread anything negative. I am european, not americacentric, so for example I never knew that PBS is constantly under republican scrutiny and threat of being defunded.

And where I come from smth like that wouldn’t and couldn‘t be done just like that. I read several articles that day that basically confirmed it, but you can never be too sure nowadays, so that’s why I asked.

its really easy to just look at the adults and laugh but none of it is funny. there’s a reason why children and teenagers turn to it and why it looks so appealing for them to find surrogate parents in these strangers on the internet.

jokes are going to further isolate those at risk kids and have them rely more on that child groomer on the internet.

the best response to seeing age play shit is to spread awareness of how unhealthy it is by sharing alternatives to those kids who need mentors and adult validation. encouraging kids to cope with their bad home life by reaching out to trusted adults and safe space community centers will do way more good than shaming them into not talking about it at all.

shame the adults yeah but only when having compassion for those kids who are being groomed into that mindset

in 2017 a 16 year old girl in NC, USA was groomed on the internet into running away from home by a 30 year old man that influenced her into calling him daddy and using pacifiers. He kept her for a year before her parents found her.

1. We're all being very witty right now, but we're immune to each other's wit so we forget to laugh

When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with.

The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.”

All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever:never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.(By Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking. Originally shared by Vivian Brault, founder of Directions, Inc.)

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This is the first time I looked at a list of “girl” ADHD symptoms and didn’t feel like it was misleading, and that if any of the post were true it said more about sexism than an actual difference in the way the disorder presents.