Jessica

in this generation is probably as hard as it ever was but it feels so wrong to describe to a primary aged child how he might see women being choked or spat on, and that this doesn’t mean all women like that.

the real war?

Him: well actually it’s a very accurate war film, do you mean like The Great Escape?

…

Me: *describing how not every woman might like things he might see in porn*

Him: well that’s racism, and I would never assume that.

Me: I think it’s prejudice but yes…

Fucking hell parenting..

Decided to have the online porn chat with the newly-eleven year old.

Me: have you heard of porn/pornography?
Him: no…
Me: it’s images or videos of people having sex
Him: oh yeah it’s in the Simpsons all the time.

…

Me [having never seen the film]: you know how Saving Private Ryan isn’t like…

Cats love Freud.

My fun family fact is my son loves this plane (and we don’t really know why…)

His great grandad was very active in the CND and didn’t talk to his son who flew Falcons in the RAF.

My son didn’t know this until last week.

Genetics are weird.

A cake shaped like a Avro Vulcan plane with grey sugar paste with green camouflage pattern.

One Avro Vulcan in lemon and lime sponge.

Idk it’s 2:34, it’s gin o’clock. 😴✈️

families who are palmed off in this way. And I try my best with them - and I try my best to fight for them at every meeting, panel and conference. But often without parents who can navigate the bureaucracy, nothing changes.

There’s no point in this except to say the SEN system is so broken.

a week, without school, lessons, PE, respite care?

And from my side, I’m happy to do my work and feel like I’m a drop in the ocean, when there is a whole other ocean supporting a young person.

Or even one or two others doing something.

But most devastating is it’s often the least privileged..

Being the entirety of a young person’s educational or health care provision is one of the most weighty aspects of my work.

The LA get away with it because ‘it’s all they will engage with’, often for years, because it saves money.

But tell me, would you want your child to have one or two sessions..

Tbf he’s getting alarmingly close to teenage years so he might prefer that!

First bits coming soon… I may well live tweet on Friday/Saturday the trials and tribulations of making a 16” long realistic aeroplane cake.

I have been trying for quite a while to parse the sentence in brackets. Still can’t understand it…

‘Is Is Cake?’ is great and all but it’s set the bar waaaay too high for birthday cakes in my household.

This year’s request: The Avro Vulcan. Fml.

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin review – moving tale of disabled gamer’s digital double life Using World of Warcraft-style animation, this documentary tells the story of Mats Steen, a boy with muscular dystrophy whose online popularity was only revealed after his death

This might help: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oc...

Almost an apology from him, and a deeper understanding of my work from not just a psychoanalytic viewpoint but also a more embodied (in-game) view, I guess. Man that probably makes less than zero sense. Can you tell it’s been a long day??

games can connect people, create communities, and I had described a meeting where originally some people were quite negative about my work, which then changed when I described it more and then evidence of large changes in a child were presented, and ascribed (idk if correctly) to me. So I took it as

It felt more like homework which I swear I went into analysis to avoid 🙃

I think it’s like - so few people work in the murky world of online games, he and most others (including other professionals, including those who pay for me) - know a lot about psychological health but very little about how…

My therapist told me he saw a movie which made him both think of me AND cry and I really don’t know what sort of glitchy parallel universe I’ve entered into.

I misread this as that the pope thought the C of E were woke snowflakes and this has tickled me and given me a much needed smile this morning!

Even if there is a drug or environmental factor that increases incidence of BEING A CERTAIN WAY, who cares. Surely the main thing is that ALL PEOPLE ARE VALUED, whatever?

experience like having your babies checked for opiate withdrawal so your pain was reduced enough to allow you to walk to the toilet… then frankly you shouldn’t be telling pregnant women what they shouldn’t do.

For those thinking I should have ‘toughed it out’, I had two labours with only Entenox.

Winding up right wingers on both sides of the pond by mentioning that I had giant boxes of paracetamol on prescription for each of my pregnancies.

As well as three types of opiates which is presumably the pain relief mothers will get if they don’t get paracetamol.

And if you’ve never had an…

Castratiob anxiety intensifies as my son walks in on me having a wee..

Son: mum do you have a penis?

Me: no I don’t.

Son: well I do.
*strips*
Look at my penis!

🫥

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It’s a hard job but somebody has got to do it.

Found this GIF and made me laugh …

I’m just following your bio instructions 🙃🤣

Both intense and font-ily challenged 🤣

I wanted a year off studying, so instead I chose to do an evening course in Classical Freudian Theory at Severnside. Idk, I think I’m broken.

But also I feel I didn’t learn enough Freud in my last two years, despite it being technically equivalent so 🤷‍♀️

A photo of a tuxedo cat in a pumpkin cat bed, with my hand from the right hand side stroking its leg.

Kinda regretting signing up to a course reading a lot of Freud for this academic year.

It starts this week.

But look. I have this to pet instead!

This is so you-coded 🤣

Meet the new family members 😻

Half a pack of chocolate digestives with instant coffee.

I spent a lot of my childhood working on markets with my mum and it was my usual drink/treat first thing in the morning on a cold day 😶