Disabled political activists and environmentalists

That said. The vast majority of people who are homeschooling their kids are doing it in an effort to indoctrinate them at best and isolate and abuse them at worst. At the very least, homeschooling is a way for adults to ensure complete control over their kids' lives, who they interact with, the media they interact with, the things their kids are exposed to and that is not a good thing. It's pathological in the grandest scheme of things and it all but ensures your kids are unprepared for when they enter actual society and have to interact with people who don't hold extremist, cultish views.

I was an Army brat and because we moved all the time we were familiar with a lot of homeschooled kids (when you move so much homeschooling starts to seem like the better option, my parents even considered it for us at one point in time because of how disjointed our education was over our childhoods) and as a kid I could always tell which kids were homeschooled. They are weird, they have no social skills, they have no ability to talk about things outside of their family, they don't understand common things kids talk about. It's like trying to interact with someone who has been living in a bunker their entire life because that's kind of what it is. Even as an adult, I can tell which adults I interact with were probably homeschooled. Being homeschooled significantly impacts a child's ability to connect and relate to others and those struggles continue into adulthood.

Kids need socialization and they need to know there are safe adults out there and when kids are homeschooled they are so incredibly isolated. Even if they have a shit ton of siblings (as they usually do) that is not enough socialization. Getting to know other kids their own age who aren't members of their family gives them a better understanding of what's normal, what's not, and how to navigate those things in a normal way.

And that's not me saying it, if any of you follow people who talk about their previous homeschooling experiences the stories these people tell are horrifying. Teaching girls how to do household chores t serve future husbands, having kids spending hours a day reading scripture and praying, spending the majority of the day acting as a slave to the household, raising younger siblings, being beaten, all being counted as "education" in these unregulated programs. And those are some of the more uplifting stories here at least the parents involved were pretending they were providing their kids an education. Other people talk about how they couldn't even fucking read, were taught racist/white supremacist ideals, etc.

But at the end of the day homeschooling is ultimately a way for parents to ensure they can neglect their children without any annoying involvement from state officials or CPS. Not only does homeschooling ensure emotional neglect and a complete lack of socialization, it also allows parents to never bring their kids to doctors, to dentists, to ignore whether their children are growing and have enough to eat, to ignore vaccinations, annual physicals, etc.. And when they become adults they lack the education to function in society or even have marketable skills to obtain work and that's in the best case scenario because it means they survived that exceedingly neglectful childhood.

And now, there's a social media trend where a lot of parents who homeschool their kids are becoming influencers and using their children to make money on a lifestyle they only show the tip of on websites their kids are never allowed to use or interact with on their own terms. A field trip to the Noah's Ark museum with another Evangelical homesteading family is not fucking educational, it's not socialization, and it's not preparing these kids for shit. If they are even able to go to college they're gonna talk about how the dinosaurs lived with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and everyone is gonna laugh at them and think they're weird and they aren't gonna have the social skills to deal with that in an appropriate way.

Those with long-term/worsened disabilities because of their parents telling them to just work through it/get over it/"it's not that bad"

Those with disabilities stemming from childhood abuse

Those who know that they're disabled or suspect such, but can't get it diagnosed or checked out because of their parents/guardians disapproving

Those who know/suspect that they're disabled, but won't be diagnosed or checked out because they're "too young"

Those who struggle in or had to drop out of the harsh and mostly unaccommodating school system because of their disability or disabilities

Those who were lied to or not told they were disabled growing up so they could be raised "normal"

Those who have their privacy and autonomy violated as a combination of being disabled and being a child, as both of those groups are seen as not deserving their autonomy

Those who are disabled or had their disability (or disabilities) worsened because of the school system pushing them too far

Those who feel that they can never be one of the "normal" kids and that they'll always be isolated because of their disability or disabilities

Disabled folks who don't know or didn't know much about their disability as a kid because doctors would only explain to the parents/caretakers and no one bothered to talk to you

All disabled children having to deal with the intersectuality of being oppressed by both ableism and adultism.

“Public Health France said it had counted 8,973 deaths so far for that week but cautioned that the number was still only partial.”

A lot of these were in-home deaths. Somebody tells me that this is because many houses don’t have air conditioning . . .

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

Banksy has confirmed that a new statue erected in London is his work and I think it might be one of my favourite pieces by him.

Called "Blinded by the Flag" it... actually, you don't need me to explain it, it's art, you'll get it and interpret it yourself.

"This includes prisoners! They are not suddenly property of the state when they're convicted!" - *a little less cheering*

"And that includes children who are not their parents' property!" - *almost no cheering*

It could be any kind of struggle; not knowing a basic skill, having financial issues, a medical problem, an accident, doing something poorly, having a crime committed against me.

Every time, I would hear that nasty 'See, you can't take care of yourself. We told you so. You should have stayed in your place. We told you this would happen if you left.' I would become overwhelmed with shame of being a bad human and proving them right. Even if I never went back, the humiliation would sit with me and I would feel consider whatever happened to me, completely my fault.

This happened because abusers connect inevitable life struggles against victims; it just isn't connected. Their twisted logic says, if you escape and then fail at being perfect, it's a proof you never should have gone. If an accident or crime happens to you, it means you're stupid just as we suspected and also somehow means you now deserve to have your agency taken away from you and be tortured forever.

People have accidents every day, they mess up, do things poorly, they struggle, and get sick, and they deal with crimes. And nobody says to them 'this is proof you should go back to being tortured' because that's nonsense! If those people have good family, what they hear instead is 'Oh my god, are you okay. How can we help you. It's not your fault. You'll get through this. It can happen to anyone.'

Nothing is taken away! Nothing is threatened. Their agency and their life remain theirs, despite the accidents, or mistakes, or struggles. Getting trapped and controlled is not a logical consequence to struggle! It isn't done to anyone else, so why are we the only ones singled out and told that anything short of perfection means pain and control.

The answer is abusers. They changed the rules for us. They decided every mistake or accident should be used to strenghten their hold on us. They created this twisted world where we can't do anything without getting punished. And for what. Because it makes them feel good and gives them power over us. Disgusting. Being a toy in their world is more important to them than us having agency and freedom to learn and navigate the world on our own.

its also how abusers get the upper hand because they will not teach their kids a damn thing then get mad at their children for not knowing how to do "basic stuff" and struggling. how is yelling, threatening, hurting, etc going to help teach life skills that are only learned through experience? they just want to be in control of everything and feel like they are the smartest best human ever, when in reality they failed to teach and guide their kids through life.

you cant shame yourself into change. mistakes should be treated like a learning experience and struggling should be met with support and kindness not shame and abuse. never let anyone shame you into thinking you're not good enough for freedom. you escaping against all odds is proof enough of your skills.