Beware The Ides Of March

I did not bother her. I felt so bad for her, I just gave her all the space and time she needed to feel safe. I had a litter box at the foot of the bed, I never saw her use it, but it needed cleaning each morning. I put her food and water on a tray and quietly slid them under the bed to her. After quite some time, I would feel her get up into the bed with me as I slept and curl up gingerly by my feet. I just pretended to remain asleep.

However. I do not think "just fucking get over it and talk to people lol" is a helpful thing to tell people with social anxiety. I don't think telling people to just get over their fucking disability will help them manage their fucking disability. How about some of y'all get over the idea that social anxiety is some non-issue that only lazy people who "don't want to put in the work to be healthy" struggle with.

Have you instead considered posting actual encouragement? Scripts to ease their anxiety? Teaching people the game of worst case, best case, most likely case? Literally anything else?? "Just get over it" is the most bullshit "advice" in the world. "If you have difficulty talking to people you're a loser who needs to grow up and just do it anyway" is, believe it or not, extremely unhelpful! So perhaps STFU!

I'll go ahead and summarize the arguments she made as to why she thinks homework sucks:

It doesn't actually promote self-sufficiency. Kids who don't struggle with organization and discipline at school will also not struggle with their homework, but kids who do struggle at school and need more help will also struggle while trying to get anything done at home.

It's inherently unfair/unequal. Children's home situations are so very different, some kids have their own desk and computer in a quiet room and at least one parent around who has the time & knowledge to help them plus the financial means to hire a tutor, while some children don't even have their own room and their parents might not be around or lack the education and means to be of any help at all.

AI exists and can be used to do almost all homework and most kids use it.

Assigning and checking homework and enforcing consequences when students don't do it is a waste of class time and creates an unpleasant atmosphere.

And also a very important point that many people in the comments made based on their experiences as both students & parents of students:

Yep!

Peafowl - all sexes and ages included

Peacocks - adult males

Peahens - adult females

Peachicks - all sexes under "yearling" age (this DOES NOT necessarly mean 1 year old)

Yearling - (Northern Hemisphere) A juvenile peafowl who has passed their first January 1st, but not their second January 1st. (Southern Hemisphere) A juvenile peafowl during their first breeding season year after their hatch year.

2yo - (Northern Hemisphere) A juvenile peafowl who has passed their second January 1st, but not their third January 1st. (Southern Hemisphere) A juvenile peafowl during their second breeding season year after their hatch year.

Mature peafowl - Any breeding-age peafowl past their third January 1st and/or experiencing their third full breeding season after their hatch year. Peacocks must have a full train, peahens must be laying.

There's also some other fun terms

Spalding - A hybrid peafowl with lineage from Pavo cristatus and Pavo muticus. Any percentage of mixed blood is considered a Spalding. There are actually VERY few known pure blooded individuals from either species in the USA anymore. Most "Indian blue" peafowl you see are actually low percentage hybrids.

A "Bevy" is a family group of peafowl, blood related.

A "Party" is a group of peafowl (some people now use other terms, such as ostentation or muster, but Party is actually the correct term), not necessarily blood related.

it’s sooooo boring and chock full of unexamined author bias that the objectively cool concept of “human raised outside of humanity by a species so different from us that they don’t have a concept of sex binary and now has to adjust to american society because he randomly got dragged back” becomes lame as fuck. because this guy wrote it.

“come again?”

“spring will come again”