I wrote an essay about special education a while back: https://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogyofthedepressed.html https://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogy

I wrote an essay about special education a while back: https://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogyofthedepressed.html https://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogyofthedepressed.htm... Boing Boing never ended up importing the comments from back then, and when I reached out to a contact about writing a follow up, the entire site was DDOSed. Too many teachers purposefully abuse the gifted, then react irrationally to perfectly reasonable responses. (I wasn't paid, and they put it out without my opt in, though to be fair, the editor did quite a bit of editing and free graphics work when they could have thrown the text up as is - a few of the wording changes were probably a good thing, looking back with the wisdom of a 30 something.) On the other hand, never once have the folks who abused me ever apologized, and they continue to gaslight me and obstruct me to the point I'm considering moving to Italy. I'm really sick of rude people, and I know it's hypocritical given some of the comments I make on the internet, but from early on in life I've had perpetual issues with folks who have a very high standard for my behavior, but not their own. I have literal scars from some of what they did, but I also have enemies in the education and medical community who continue to engage in illegal, retaliatory behavior for my first amendment protected free speech. I cannot emphasize enough how badly it backfired that neoliberals engineered society around the idea that you can't interact with people without permission, then melted down when my response, due to COVID, was basically "Fine, you're right, I have anger issues. I'm also not your caregiver, so keep back six feet."