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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1h

Child development specialists! Yet another type of professional who can help your child more than an ABA therapist!

Others include: occupational therapists, speech pathologists, child psychologists

Princess @themultiplemom.bsky.social · 13h

I coached a parent who said her autistic toddler was afraid to use the potty at home but went independently at school.
Two weeks after working with me, she said he basically lives on the toilet now. 💀💀💀

Don’t let anyone tell you the work of child development specialists isn’t important.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 9h

Boo on them! The tent is bigger than they think.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

So good!

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Graphic novels are literature. Audiobooks are literature. YA is literature. It all counts.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

I work as a change management consultant and I have heard senior management describe how systems work very confidently and with documentation to back it up, only to be flatly contradicted by the one person in the room who had done the job. There's how it works on paper & there's what really happens.

Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 1d

Re: "the officials at ellis island didn't have the authority to change names" and therefore nobody's name ever changed at that point apparently,

I'm just thinking of all the times some petty little desk tyrant decided something that fucked me over.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Yup this was just general appreciation!

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Outstanding 🤌

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh boy oh boy it's time to repost the brassica chart

This is the chart:

It's a diagram that shows many common cultivars of brassica oleracea (cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, broccoli and cauliflower) with notes about the trait of the original plant that is exaggerated in each cultivar:"terminal buds" for cabbage, "lateral buds" for Brussels sprouts, "stem" for kohlrabi, "leaves" for kale, "stems and flowers" for broccoli, and "flower clusters" for cauliflower.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Gleeful destruction, vendettas, "the cruelty is the point", policies that don't make sense and will not work, arrogance and narrowmindedness. This is what evil always looked like. The storybook villains were true lifes.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

I've been thinking about this a lot after complaining that American billionaires are banal as supervillains. It's not that the supervillains are uncreative. It's that the old children's stories got evil exactly right. This really is what it looks like.

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 1d

sometimes writing diagnostic reports for autism spectrum disorder means web-searching to see if dragonball is one word or two

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with computer jobs is that it's all in your head. You can't touch or eat the code you write, it's too abstract. You need to find something to make with your hands if you want to stay okay

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 1d

Have you heard of Dr. Becky Kennedy? She's a clinical psychologist specializing in child psychology. She talks a lot about "Deeply Feeling Kids", doesn't call them neurodivergent but, well, if the shoe fits. Sharing in case useful. What Is a Deeply Feeling Kid? share.google/jl13X6htlD2S...

What Is a Deeply Feeling Kid?: A Guide for Parents - Good Inside

Learn what it means to be a deeply feeling kid and how to support their big emotions with empathy, structure, and connection-based parenting strategies.

share.google

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 1d

ME: I have a debilitating chronic illness

EVERYONE: Okay

ME: *has a visible chronic illness symptom*

EVERYONE: *Boos from the crowd*

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

It was an argument about laws protecting public health vs individual rights, so soda was an example of something that could be regulated. I don't have more detail, so maybe not the best example, but they were definitely forgetting that countries regulate consumption of goods all the time.

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 2d

CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

He looks like he owns a railroad company 🧐🧐

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 2d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

Also! Because the article touches on sex ed, shout out to my favourite sex educator, Emily Nagoski, whose excellent books helped pull me back from the edge.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

All I am going to say is that it is weird when people typecast autistic people as default asexuals. If neurotypicals understood what sensory sensitivity is like as a full body experience, they uh. Probably wouldn't think that.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

"I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people" doesn't cover it. It's not just about caring. It's about recognizing simple benefits like spreading out risk or having a social safety net. I realize this is probably the billionaires talking. But Americans are listening.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

*Hundreds OR thousands

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

A couple years ago I had to explain to an American how health insurance works. He thought there was no point in paying for something "he wouldn't use". The concept of insurance is hundreds of thousands of years old depending on what's being insured.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

American culture is forgetting how to be a society. I just watched an American arguing that he should be allowed to drink as much soda as he wants, comparing it to alcohol and forgetting that anti-overserving laws have been in place in the US since the 18th century.

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

OP is right and it really frustrates me! Why did I spend years learning "French French" when the French spoken in my country is Quebecois!

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

I like the idea of malls, and that one has a bunch of stores I like, but I do not like actual malls 😖

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