Kingdom of Knuffel

I'm sure it must be traumatic, and I don't want to be pushy. People need their space, speacially young people.
But I'm wondering how I should focus it with her.

We do have a counselor. One. Which means we are brutally understaffed in that area.
I mean, we keep our counselor VERY busy.
I told her about it, and I'm sure she's gonna talk with this girl, but still I would like to learn more about how to help her.



@Hotarla:
Absolutely.
Teens are difficult times for everybody. Being clearly different just makes it harder.

exactly Amura. That's why i'm not surprised she kept it from everyone. D:

Sometimes all we can do is give the students their space, but let them know that we are here and ready to help when they want to reach out.

yeah exactly. they'll talk when they're ready.

Amura wrote:

light_sucks wrote:I failed a lot of math classes. I really should have gone to the accessibility people but I was embarrassed.

Why embarrassed?

Honest question.
Cause I have an student now who is very embarrassed about her health issues - a car run over her two years ago, she's got health issues for the rest of her life, but when I try to bring up the matter she always dodges it.

Because the world is made for ablebodied and ableminded people. Disabled people, in any shape or form, are often outcast and ignored at the best of times. At the worst we're targeted for hate since we're very easy victims. Because most people ignore us. And lots of us are unable to do anything about it for many many different reasons.

We get tired of answering the same questions over and over. Of people not believing us or thinking that we're just over exaggerating. Or people blaming us for our illness. It's also very depressing having to tell people about your disability and then having to comfort them about it. Which I personally have had to do so many times.

It's incredibly difficult to sort out if someone is a safe person to talk to. Since even doctors and therapists and people who are supposed to help people like me treat us like we're not human.

AND often times if we're a little depressed about an issue or something people will often come along and go oh it could be worse. Yeah, it could in most cases. But our lives are often really difficult. We don't need ablebodied people coming around and telling us we're whining.

I am very passionate about this topic.

I FINISHED ALL MY FINAL ASSIGNMENTS WHOOOOOOOOOO

HAD LIKE 9 IN TWO WEEKS I AM NOT VERY ALIVE

Natsu is baaack, just in time for doughnight! Go get some keys! Or i can give you some lol. I made an event thread thing so you can see which items are on which days. C:

Congrats, Natsu!
Work well done, now you deserve a rest... and some fun!

Let me know if you need help with the event, I got spare keys

so do i, i literally have over 40, nearing 50 keys. XD

I already managed to gift two sets of 24 keys, and I still have more
I suppose I could get tons of them if I dig daily, but since I still have more than enough I'm not bothering.