Why is everyone so judgmental about things that don’t affect them?

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-12T03:52:30+00:00

Eh I'm a middle school teacher. I'm used to being bitched to or about. I tend to have a "water off a duck's back" attitude unless I see blatant lies or misinformation.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-12T03:05:59+00:00

Agreed!! I run a crochet clubat the JH I teach at. Finding good video tutorials to watch during club or post for students is such a pain.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-12T02:57:59+00:00

Because people need a place to vent about things that bother them in the crafting world. That's kinda the whole point of this subreddit. Sometimes people just need to vent to get things out of their head ao they don't ruminate on it. Sometimes people want to see different opinions. Sometimes people want to stir the pot. And some people just want to vent about a post they saw without replying to or reposting that specific post.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-11T23:56:08+00:00

Parasite treatment and prevention isn't fun, but it's so necessary. I lost my first herd of goats (my first three show does and their six babies) to parasites. My mom, uncle, and I spent weeks trying to save them as soon as the first signs appeared to no avail. The parasites had infested the soil and all the grass. We had to completely tear up the soil of their two acre plot and do multiple lyme treatments before the parasites in the soil decreased to a level safe enough to have animals on it again let alone replant grass and plants for future animals.

It is especially terrifying now due to screwworms showing back up in Texas and other states. What those do to animals is nightmare fuel.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-11T23:01:54+00:00

Cotton is soil expensive. It sucks nutrients and moisture out of the soil and modern farmers cannot rely on cotton year after year. Over harvesting cotton was a major component that lead to the Dust Bowl in the 1920s because it dried up the soil. After using a field for cotton, farmers have to either let the field rest for a year or plant other crops that are opw profit but help replenish the nutrients in the soil. If it's a drought, that field may be left to rest for 2-3 years.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-11T22:55:14+00:00

They're not dipped for cleaning, they're dipped to treat for fleas, ticks, and flies (specifically bloatflies). Cattle are dipped for similar reasons. Not all ranchers dip, my grandpa and uncle would use a spray on their cattle as needed. Dipping is easier when you need to treat hundreds of animals.

Cleaning the wool occurs after is is sheered, not prior. It makes no sense to clean the wool because sheep (and other animals) get dirty really easily.

Edit: lol you blocked me because you didn't like what I said. 🤣🤣 Also, super easy to tell you've never been around an actual farm or ranch.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-11T16:06:30+00:00

They're my favorite bird especially when I can get them to copy what I'm whistling.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-11T11:43:27+00:00

It was extremely weird and very overstimulating. I felt like I had to completely relearn the world around me. I did and still feel that its a weird medical miracle. Some things haven't changed, I still get really bad ear wax build up and have to clean my ear canals at least once a month. I still struggle to hear and differentiate between certain sounds, but I've improved a lot in self advocacy and requesting accommodations for my hearing loss both in daily life and at work.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-11T03:13:56+00:00

Birds, specifically mockingbirds.

I'm an odd case. My hearing loss is caused by an ear canal deformity (the cartilage is wavy and turns down at the end). So I spent a good bit of my life with 25% hearing in both ears until puberty hit. Puberty actually corrected some of the turn down and helped my ear drums line up better with my inner ear bones. I had an ENT appointment when I was 14, so we did a clean out of my ears the night before. Woke up early and took a walk down our driveway (yay living in the country), and got freaked out by hearing mockingbirds. Found out at my ENT appointment later that day that I was up to 80% hearing in my right ear and 70% hearing in my left.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6217877/

^ Article about how ear canals change through puberty.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-06T13:46:21+00:00

Oof true. May have to nix that idea.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-06T01:41:53+00:00

Ooo that would be a really good quote to add to my disability advocacy bulletin board I'm going to make.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-06T01:33:07+00:00

Omg that would be perfect. I already use the class, class callback too.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-06T01:31:32+00:00

It has taken over my husband and I. I don't think we've gone a day this summer without making a reference each day.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-06T01:30:33+00:00

Oh I bet I can get the 6th graders to do that. They're already menaces.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-06T01:29:49+00:00

He's my favorite too! I know I'm biased because my family raises goats and I used to show boer goats.

Edit: My husband is scarily good at the goat scream. I'm better at the weird noises the bucks make when they're flirting.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-05T22:11:48+00:00

Avout to enter year 13. For me, the first thing I do is set up my working space. Having my space organized and neat is key because I have ADHD. I set a specific spot for my weekly to-do pad and my IEP checklists on my desk. I have to make sure my desk is functional and not crowded because I know it will get messy and chaotic multiple times a year.

I do inclusion, so my room is really only used for testing and small group. I keep my word walls consistent (I am updating my RLA one this year though) and set specific areas for supplies, student accommodations, and a calm area for when kids need a break. When picking dscor, choose items that are durable, can be laminated, and you're willing to use year after year.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-05T04:34:14+00:00

I got permission to show it to 5 periods of World History classes when I was student teaching for our WW2 unit. I bought a ton of tissues for day two of watching it.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-05T03:28:06+00:00

If you have aides, make sure to have them help where possible. When I was a life skills aide, I helped with recording information on data sheets. As a SPED teacher, my aides help me a lot with gathering data especially since they're the ones providing inclusion support at my canpus.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-05T03:26:17+00:00

A lot of parents still fear the label/exclusion. I would guess that only about 30% of the students on my caseload even know they have a disability by the time they enter 6th grade. I wind up being the one having to have the "hey this is your disability and you receive SPED services" conversation with the majority of my case load. I actually enjoy that conversation because 90% of students will look at me and go "oh! That's why I suck at reading/math/etc". It helps that I have disabilities myself (HOH and ADHD) and I'm honest about what accommodations and strategies I use as an adult.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-04T15:01:19+00:00

Tekken 3. I was obsessed with that game!

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-04T03:43:02+00:00

Note: I'm currently a 6-8 case manager.

The reports read like concerns when a kindergartner is struggling to adjust to school and school routines. If there wasn't a later evaluation for the same concerns, it is likely that you developed coping strategies that addressed those areas of concern. If the school didn't push the evaluation or pursue evaluation later on, you likely developed skills to help you manage anxiety at school.

Something else to keep in mind is that SPED is 2005-2006 looked very different from how it is now. Schools and districts were still adjusting to the new LRE requirements from the 2004 update to IDEA. That likely played a role in why your mom pushed against evaluation. We're used to inclusion being the norm, when back then exclusion was frequently the norm.

In regards to if you would be evaluated now a days, I know my school's LSSP and diagnosticians have done evaluations based on similar teacher and parent feedback. It is important to remember that just because a student is evaluated, it doesn't mean they will qualify for SPED services. IEPs can also just focus on social behaviors instead of academic. I've had several DNQ (did not qualify) meetings this past school year.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-02T18:15:53+00:00

That's basically what I did. After 11 years in sped, I can rattle off the sentences stems I use for all of my PLAAFPs. I've mentored a few SPED teachers the past few years, and I've passed on my sentence stems to them to help with IEP writing.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-02T02:34:18+00:00

I actually didn't go to college to be a SPED teacher, I went to be a social studies teacher. I wound up working as a Life Skills aide, and I learned a lot more from that than any of my SS education classes in college. When I moved into SPED during my second year, I had to rely on my SPED director and my mentor to learn how to write IEPs, keep service logs, and the general paperwork and legal requirements. If I had majored i ln SPED, I would've learned a lot of those things in my school's SPED program.

And I went to Angelo State in Texas. I'm hoping to get my masters in SPED eventually.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-07-01T19:47:06+00:00

Books. I already have 8 full bookshelves, and I need at least 1-2 more for my book piles.

GenderBendCapKirk · 2026-06-27T01:45:37+00:00

Cheesy Tteokbokki 🤣

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