thinking abt the previous post, the agency i worked at for a couple years would use bits of ABA and I just... I always nodded along to the boss instructing me on how to work with the kids with those tactics (I worked with the kids who were 6 and under) and then as soon as she left I tossed all that shit out of my brain and just treated the kid like a human being and worked with them where they were at.
and guess what !!! i had the most and fastest success out of every other worker in the entire building!! i was often told it seemed like i was working miracles with my kids bc they'd just progress so fast (comparatively) through the skill book we had to work on, and that the kids always seemed so happy and eager to come to the building after they started working with me!!
this is partially why I quit because I couldn't stand seeing my coworkers treat the kids like they were dogs (talking down to them, being patronizing, and utilizing shitty ABA tactics) and as much good as I was doing there, it was fucking me up bc they were extremely demanding that I work more than I was comfortable (or able) to, and often put me with "problem" kids who I didn't get to regularly see so we couldn't make much progress bc the kids weren't able to get to know me and (rightfully!) didn't trust me because they thought I'd be treating them the way everyone else did.
i just...... my coworkers would ask me how I had so much success and I would just shrug and say like, "just treat them like they're human and work with them where they're at" and I couldn't explain any more bc that'd require me admitting I wasn't following the boss' guidance for a lot of shit fjfkdl
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meet gregory hes on this blog now. but like. with my canon because fuck u hes not a bad boy and i refuse the theories that say he is and i dont think hes Client 46 either. i just ,,,,hes a homeless lil boy how the fuck is he getting therapy lmao even the pizzaplex minis make him just seem a bit odd. not a killer. or at worst, hes being manipulated / corrupted. hes just a lil boy
dont turn children into villians they are just children
anyway, take my boys bio
Gregory was born to a family that seemed perfect on the outside. They loved him, spoiled him, they abandoned him for nine hours a day, and hardly spoke to him when they were home. But, he was fed, he had a bed, and a roof over his head. How could he complain? But then his parents died in an accident. A fire to be exact. Some people suspected that Gregory himself set the fire. Of course, there was no proof, and Gregory denied it. He didn’t want his parents to die, no matter how much other people tried to convince him he did.
Since then, he’s been in and out of foster homes, but often goes days without returning. He lives in the megaplex usually, having found ways to hack into the employee only system and get around locks. It takes him quite some time to do so, and he often seeks help from his friends who help him with more advanced work. He uses the nickname ‘Dr. Rabbit’ to write fun stories with his friends; and he has the top score on almost all the arcade games in the megaplex. And yes, he has managed to get him and his friends some free play passes even though he knows he shouldn’t.
However, Gregory does not trust easily, and often causes more trouble than he means too. He also tends to get overly attached, to an unhealthy degree. Gregory often invited his counselors to see his true living situation, at which point, something.. Bad happened. The first time, Gregory thought it was just his bad luck. Like what happened to his parents. Then, it happened again. And Again. And Again. That was how Gregory found out it lived there. And it liked to copy Gregory, it liked to wear the same clothes, use the same voice, do the same things. It was kind of funny. And at first, Gregory was excited, thinking that maybe he’d finally found someone to be his family. Then, Gregory found her body. And suddenly, it wasn’t so funny anymore. Gregory tried to talk to it, to tell it to stop, that he didn’t want to hurt anyone. Sure, he was mad, and sometimes he was upset, but that didn’t mean someone had to die.
But It told him that it was fine, if Gregory didn’t want to play, it would simply find a new friend. After all, unlike Gregory, it had plenty of friends. Such as the security guard, Vanessa. She was a great friend, after all, when Gregory refused to do anymore hacking–all it had to do was ask Vanessa to hit a few more buttons.
Gregory wanted friends. He wants a family. And It intends to take it all away.
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still re: tlou (sorry), the show rly capitalizes the ways in which ellie is different from sarah in joel's eyes. in the finale, when he's listing to ellie the ways in which she and sarah differ, there's fatherly affection, yes, but also his opinion comes down to how much like a carefree little girl sarah was, while ellie is hardened for her age (a truthful assessment).
imo the circumstances make their relationship much more claustrophobic and confusing than what would be healthy for a father/daughter relationship.
even tho joel's dynamic with sarah had the same structure (father and daughter, no mother/other siblings. daughter takes part in house chores etc), sarah was still allowed to be a kid who flinches and cries at violence, while ellie is a much more adultfied girl. and her role in their version of a father/daughter dynamic reflects that, specially in the way he depends on her.
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The boys take Amp shopping, per request. She gets the basics of clothes, medical supplies, and snacks like those hidden valley bars. Once done she tells like, one half asleep skeleton that she’s going to a different store and walks over to the second hand store on the other side of the store cluster area (idk what it’s called) and just goes ham on picking clothes there. It’s much cheeper so more things and the store before had all pink and glitter in the girls while the guys section was just unappealing. She doesn’t mind graphic t’s but the graphics turned her off.
After a minor freak out from her trip chaperones they find her outside the changing rooms, in the process of deciding what to keep and what to put back. Some have now decided they’re going to add some life to her choices and set off to see if she’d like anything they picked out, adding them to try pile in the cart as they went.
But whats that we see? On the handle bar hanging is an orange hoodie. Why that looks familiar! Why hath thou chosen this garment small one? It called to me- she writes- soft as a cloud it is, and it hides my features oh so well! Yeah it’s Stretch’s old hoodie from when he first got there years ago. He donated it when it stopped fitting, and it is way too big on her. It’s amazing it lasted so long without getting bought- probably the bright color’s fault- but also destiny I guess.
Stretch @ Blue: bro gimme the adoption papers
NO
bro plz, shared custody at least- I beg
MAYBE
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i do not want to know! i have no interest in anything unkind or judgy that anyone is saying about me, ever.
people on tumblr have been being rude to me for over a decade now and i have gone my whole 12 years here without ever being forced or compelled to see it. please just make it as easy as possible for me to keep ignoring nonsense like that and do not inform me or send anything to me. thank you!
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Is there a reason you don't like taimi/gorrik? just curious cause i haven't seen anyone else dislike the ship so i don't know if there's like, any specific reason to dislike it or not :o
yeah ok so uh, to start off, it's really personal. I have a really close relationship with my older brother, he's disabled and I'm autistic so like its a really similar dynamic to what Gorrik and Blish had, and Blish and Taimi were close friends with major crushes on each other.
and I don't know if you've ever been in a situation like that anon but all of my brother's closest friends and his ex girlfriends that I liked and his wife he married recently have All felt like extra older siblings to me. even though he and i have the same taste in women, all the girls he dated, despite being my "type", just felt like older sisters. So I literally can't read Taimi and Gorrik's relationship as anything but big sister and little brother because I've been in that position and the idea of having romantic or sexual interest in any of my brother's close friends and especially someone he had a crush on? is really gross to me
like those are siblings, that's a pair of asuran siblings what the fuck why are they dating they're siblings stop making the siblings date
its just gross to me and i hate seeing it and im not very comfortable with anet making it canon. i know its maybe just a me thing but it still makes me feel gross so like please tag it so i can blacklist it
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STILL HAVING SUCH A NORMAL ONE ABOUT THAT RGGJO BUT NO Y7JO GETTING REALLY GOOD AT HOUSEWORK I SEE THE VISION… I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down…
Because I've always wondered how unprepared Jo would've been going into everything. On one hand, he did leave home really young, but since he was working and Ikumi wasn't, one could argue Ikumi would've been the one to handle the housework at least while they were together.
Inversely, I do kiiind of feel like Jo would've done at least Some Things when he could to ease the burden on Ikumi based on his attempt to comfort her at the station. I'm reading way too much into it but it's notable that, despite him definitely being a smoker and them hoping for a miscarriage, the ashtray in their apartment is spotless.
But we only really see his living situation when he's with Ikumi and don't get to see what--if anything--changes when he's on his own, when he has to do everything and not just Some Things. But with regard to food, if you're in survival mode like that, while it is more economical to make food at home, it would make sense that any quality of cooking would be passable. That's not going to fly with a kid who's lived in the lap of luxury his whole life.
So I've always had a lot of feelings about Jo Bettering Himself for Masato's sake (even when Masato isn't necessarily being reasonable) and his overblown neurosis at the prospect of falling short--the post you mentioned in your tags is Exactly It. But, you know, it's cheesy, but I firmly believe he could do whatever he set his mind to, if he can manage to learn Every Martial Art and become a glorified (and very competent) accountant after dropping out of high school.
Also uhhhhhhhh entire post reminded me of this (びら on Pixiv) that's it that's the ask
Ok I'm glad we both caught on to Jo's attempt to console Ikumi and the considerably-clean home. Evidently he was probably self-sufficient enough, but nothing extraordinary- just whatever passed as 'suitable' for them, so it's not as though he's going in totally clueless (but certainly not knowledgeable enough to match Masato's extremely-high standards. Bless Arakawa but he definitely spoiled him a little).
Even if it is a 'cheesy' sentiment, Jo very much has proven that so long as it's for Masato, he's willing to do anything and everything no matter how big (joining the yakuza) or small (probably like. learning how to make quiche)
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like it cannot possibly hurt men to idk, wear a condom? get a vasectomy? if theyre gonna be absolute mansluts w no interest in having kids. + if these men are rich as hell they can just freeze their sperm for later if thats smth they do want. maybe its my woman brain but genuinely it makes no sense for them to engage in 0 birth control 0 protection while fucking around w god knows how many women. it drives me crazy to see stuff like this. idk how many regular men do this most of the time its on the news its rich idiots. but this is legitimately irresponsible whore behavior i find it crazy its basically not stigmatized in any way. you just shouldnt be proud of leaving a trail of pregnancies (hopefully abortions, for the womens sake honestly) and fatherless kids wherever you go man. thats incredibly selfish!
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