*Stutters Agressively*

Like “aww do you want the treat? You’re not sure? Well I’m sure your human will hold on to it for you in case you change your mind later”

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Yes yes!! I didn't know it was specifically to his lower back, did they specify if it was a spinal injury or not? Because if so I'd like to draw him more accurate to that specific injury as some of my friends have that issue. I also feel like on a more metatextual level the way Noctis is treated is very reminiscent to me of the way children with lifelong/terminal health issues are. Noctis is going to die before his time, so he's given a level of aid a regular child would never need, and now as an adult who's able enough to function but still ill l, he finds his responsibilities difficult to deal with because he simply doesn't have the skills. I've been pretty sick lately myself and have been in and out of the hospital, so I've been drawing him to cope.

My parents pulled me for the fourth grade, and I was homeschooled until the end of high school. Nine entire years. They pulled me from the public schools for a perfectly reasonable reason — my mental health was in the toilet and I needed to be away from other kids who might hurt me as they had spent all of my third grade year doing. My mom has a fucking PhD in neuroscience and tutors math professionally. She was, during the ten years that my siblings and I were homeschooled, the best, kindest, most caring, understanding, lovely teacher you could ask for.

But I'm still broken. That's the thing about homeschool. You can have the best experience possible in homeschool and still come out a fundamentally broken person. My social development stopped at the age of 10. I'm a 22 year old adult woman with the social skills of a 10 year old. That's not to say that that COULDN'T have happened in public school, but being homeschooled only made it more of a certainty. Both of my siblings and I have fewer coping strategies on average than our peers with similar neurodivergencies because we basically did not live in the real world for a decade during key developmental years.

Don't ban homeschooling because of the religious nuts. There are plenty of them. Hell, I KNEW plenty of them. But there are also plenty of quote unquote "good" homeschool families. Ones that do everything you would hope the model homeschool family does. And they are still hurting their children, even if unintentionally, because homeschooling is an inhrently traumatic experience. It's isolating. For seven entire years of my life, I had no friends. Not because I was a social outcast, but because I didn't even SEE anybody regularly enough. But, nonetheless, I knew people. You generally do if you get involved in the community.

Ban homeschooling because it breaks and utterly destroys everyone who goes through it.

Everyone.

Been stuck living in a glorified construction site for nearly a year, and to even get to a watertight frame/walls/roof took 14 months longer than we were told