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  I also hate that show because being autistic as a girl is a completely fucking alien experience to that.   No one treats you like you are smart,  even if you are. I thought I could be friends with boys who were interested in science like me, but I learned very quickly about gatekeeping. One of the first things said to me in an after school science program(that you had to grade into) was a boy my age(who is now diagnosed) "you're not really smart. You're just here because the teacher let you."
  Autistic girls don't get diagnosed and aren't supported.  I found out when I was 31. 
  I am still grieving the teacher sanctioned abuse I lived through. I have developed C-PTSD from living as a disabled person my whole childhood and most of my adult life without support.  
  The higher degree of crushing tracks.
context: Know what's worse than teaching in a dysfunctional environment? Teaching in a dysfunctional environment without adequate training or experience. >
  
  Yup. It takes a lot of training to work with students of all backgrounds. I've had students living in the back of a car, kids whose only meals are the school breakfast and lunch, students who have been abused at home. I've had to make DHS calls with the principal, I've had to make calls to rehab facilities to have kids detox off drugs. The things I've seen are unbelievable. 
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  Yet, Desantis, Stitt, and these other governors seem to think teaching and education is easy, or that kids are easy to manage. Kids are human, with amazingly complex needs and great sapience to boot. They are smart, and they can pick up on the bullshit as well. They know this is not normal, but when bringing in any rando off the street is the standard that gets accepted, they just accept it as adults unwilling to care about them. >
  
  They don’t think that, their supporters in their faux populism and transactionalism do, a la the “I got through K-12, so I clearly know what it’s all about!” type pablum.
  And when you add in apathy, nay hostility, to critical thinking in general, no one should be surprised that this is treated as dogma among the “school choice/parental rights!” groups… >
  
  I was thinking about how many awful words there are always thrown about to people who value intellectual pursuits—nerd, geek, egghead, poindexter, etc.
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  For some reason, our culture really devalues intellectual pursuits and learning. They think it's a bad thing to love to learn and progress.
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  They seem to think things were better "Way back then", as if they way they did things was always so perfect, with no problems of any kind. Yet, their Arcadian time was still dystopian for a host of groups. That's the crazy part to me. How anyone could look back with great fondness, it's beyond me. >
  
  I really really hate the show "Young Sheldon" because I mostly lived that life back in the late 80s. What the show skips is the constant bullying and teacher-sanctioned violence I had to deal with. The culture here has ALWAYS been one of crushing the difference out of children; the higher degree of difference, the greater degree of crushing.