A System With No Name

- No, it is NOT schizophrenia. - No, you do NOT have multiple personalities because you act differently at work, around your family, around your friends, etc. - No, we are NOT like the guy in “Split”; we’re not going to switch personalities and attack you, that’s bullshit. - YES, alters/identities/personalities are REAL. Treat them like individual people, even though they share the same body.

He had been genuinely excited about the 8 year old book he’d picked up. It was a new one in a series he used to read as a younger kid. He’d been actively sitting and reading, and then he was embarrassed in front of his classmates, told off for reading a kids book, and voila. He lost all enthusiasm for reading anything else that day.

What’s worse? That kid had been hit by a car like a year and a half earlier. Severe brain trauma. Had to re-learn a lot of basic things, like how to speak and how to read.

An 8 year old book would have been perfect for him. Easy enough to read that it would have helped rebuild his confidence in his own reading ability. A book meant for 15/16 years olds? A lot harder to read than a book for 8 year olds. Especially if you’re recovering from a relatively recent brain injury.

Most popular hits by/involving helicopter parents:

Is that age appropriate? (Dad following his daughter around checking the suggested age ranges for each book she picked and then letting her have it or not)

Is that improving literature? (Does this book teach the kid about the human state of existence but never be a #readdiversebooks kind of book?)

Graphic novels aren’t real books but picture books are

This one mom who has this repeating argument with her daughter where the mom wants the daughter to read this book from when the mom was a kid