Too Big to Fail

Me too!

Thankfully she's in special education with adults who understand her needs, but she gets VERY annoying very quickly for adults in general. My mom can't really tolerate being around her for more than a couple of hours at a time.

Yeah, it's definitely not easy. But we do our best, and she's happy. Which is really all I want my kids to be.

Something she and I do a lot is make up a story together where she'll talk for 15-20 seconds and then I'll talk for 15-20 seconds and then she'll talk, because that way she doesn't need to keep a linear plot thread in mind and she can just flow. That's one of the few ways to keep her on one activity

...her disabilities aren't "immediately apparent" when you interact with her; she's friendly and outgoing and seems like an intelligent and engaged kid... until 15 seconds later when she interrupts you to ask an unrelated question or make an unrelated statement. And she needs CONSTANT engagement.

Like, she knows I want her to learn to read, and she so she tries to read and write, but it just takes her an incomprehensible amount of time because every two or three words she'll get distracted, turn her attention somewhere else, and then have to visibly force it back. This is why I say...

...asks another question 30 or 60 seconds later because she's forgotten I told her to hold her questions. Unlike most kids, she has a hard time even watching movies, since while a video can capture her attention, it can't really hold it beyond 60 seconds or so. And she tries SO HARD.

She cannot. I read to her every night before she goes to bed, but literally every few seconds she'll interrupt me to ask questions about something COMPLETELY unrelated to what I'm reading; if I tell her not to ask questions, she'll get fidgety and her eyes will wander around the room until she...

That's the one.

So while she absolutely has strengths to play to, she also has tremendous obstacles to overcome, and if she's unable to improve her reading or memory retention I don't know that it would help her very much for her high school to give her good grades in subjects she barely understands.

She has a bubbly, vivacious personality; absolutely no social fear whatsoever; and is extremely empathetic. Might sound strange, but I think she'd make a great salesperson some day - ingratiating herself with strangers and getting them to like her and trust her in fleeting circumstances is her bag.

So she gets plenty of assistance from special education specialists, and so she makes progress in the areas she can (she's ahead of grade level in math) while, uh, not really making progress in the areas she can't (reading). I'm not really sure what the answer is for her, or if there even is one.

...advocate for her being held back until she learns any particular academic material for the simple reason that, because of the way her brain works, she might *never* learn a piece of material. I'm fortunate that we bought a house in a wealthy school district with well-funded public schools.

I don't advocate for her being held back, because socially she's actually more advanced than other kids her age, with a major exception - she has a hard time developing direct friendships because of her difficulty remembering people's names or personal details about them. And it's difficult to...

...her short-term memory is essentially non-existent, which makes it hard for her to learn new tasks, while her working and long-term memory are actually excellent. This resulted an overall IQ score of 101 when she was tested last year, even though she cannot remember which shoe goes on which foot.

...time remembering people's names, to the point where I dropped her off in school in January and the security guard asked her who her teacher was so he could send her to the right class, and she couldn't remember the name of the teacher she'd had for four months at that point. Basically, her...

My daughter has ADHD that's, like, multiple orders of magnitude beyond what you would typically think of as "ADHD." She's friendly, outgoing, kind, a wonderful conversationalist, but she can't read because she literally does not have the attention span to last through a sentence. She has a hard...

GLP-1s are a fucking miracle and while some people have negative reactions and can't take them, they virtually guarantee you will, at a minimum, drop down to a BMI of around 35 if you're significantly higher than that.

Orgy

He graduated from Stilwell High School in Stilwell, Oklahoma.[7] He attended Missouri Valley College in 1996, but did not graduate.[2] In 1997, at age 20, Mullin took over his father's business, Mullin Plumbing, when his father fell ill. In 2010, Mullin received an associate degree in construction technology from Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology.[2][8] He is the only currently serving senator without at least a bachelor's degree.[9] At the time he was first elected to Congress in 2012, Mullin hosted House Talk, a home improvement radio program syndicated across Oklahoma, on Tulsa station KFAQ.[10][11][better source needed] When elected to Congress, Mullin owned Mullin Properties, Mullin Farms, and Mullin Services, in addition to Mullin Plumbing.[12] In 2012, he reported between $200,000 and $2 million in income from two family companies, and another $15,000 to $50,000 from shares he held in a bank.[13] At the end of 2021, Mullin's reported assets increased to a range of $31.6 million to $75.6 million, compared to a range of $7.3 million to $29.9 million at the end of 2020.[14] The increase was from the sale of his plumbing-related companies to HomeTown Services, a multi-state residential heating, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical company.[14] Mullin said that the sale happened in early 2021, while Mullin was serving in the House of Representatives.[15]

You will be SHOCKED! SHOCKED! when you find out how he came to run a company (well, not that shocked):

My daughter is 7 and in 2nd Grade, but she has severe and extremely unusual developmental disabilities that aren't immediately apparent when you interact with her, and there's a not impossible series of events that would lead to her becoming this exact person a decade from now.

I am vehemently opposed to Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank and I think Netanyahu belongs in prison. I'm an advocate for Irish Republicanism who's as a result been an advocate for Palestinian rights since I was a teenager.

That has nothing to do with calling Netanyahu Trump's puppetmaster

If you really want to prove to people that you're not a Nazi just because of your Nazi tattoo and your friendship with Holocaust denier Nazi podcaster maybe one thing you could do is not have your picture taken with guys wearing "88" shirts. How many red flags does somebody need?

Also, all you need to do is look at what RFK Jr. has done to all the formerly left-wing "health and wellness activists" to know that all of the Platner antisemites are eventually going to go MAGA, but for Christ's sake cut that shit out.

Between supporting the guy with the Nazi tattoo and calling Trump's war against Iran some favor he's doing for (((Netanyahu))) a lot of people on the left really need to take a good fucking look in the mirror of what they're turning into.

A lot has been written in New York Society publications about the root cause of Trump's anger at the world being the fact that he was never allowed into elite Manhattan society because he's too gauche. Maybe the entire Mar-a-Lago Face thing is just an attempt to create an alternative to NYC Society.

Say what you will about statistics, but Derek Jeter is clearly better than ARod in that Jeter would NEVER do something like this. Jeter has always been very big in NYC society circles, and showing up at a Trump White House event is how you get disinvited from all the best parties.

Like, with the arguable exception of Secretary of Labor, there is no Cabinet position which should be held by anyone not at least a billion times more qualified than I am, but I'm pretty sure I'm more qualified to be DHS Secretary than Mullin. And I'm not qualified at all!

Apologies for being elitist, but: Mullin is the only member of the Senate without at least a Bachelor's Degree, and would be the single dumbest member of the Senate but for the existence of Tuberville. Other than Congress, the only job he's ever had is running his dad's home improvement company.

I'm sorry; 40% of Americans think society should not accept homosexuality? For realsies?