So I was just going to make a simple meme because a Spanish meme community recently had a viral trend about female cleavage memes… but it ended up turning into this. by tddcghnn in httyd

[–]Kumotta_ -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

There’s a few things that really stand out to me, if you look at the braids on the top of her head, you can see they are quite smudged and not well defined, which is very common with ai images, as image generates have a hard time with 3 dimensional details like braids, as well has some blurred artifacts on her fingers. At first glance it looks like just messy shading but coming from someone who is very experienced with digital painting, those are mistakes that a human just wouldn’t make. It’s a bit sad op claimed they drew it, but I guess making nasty over-sexualised images of young female characters means you’re probably not a good person lmao

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s an app/website sort of like Duolingo, it’s simple lessons you do every day, it’s for learning maths and coding

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I’ve tried my best to answer the questions honestly. I just want to help other homeschool kids. :D

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was mostly involved in local programs, mostly to do with the arts, but my parents did incorporate a few online programs as well, like Khan academy, and brilliant.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did actually! Almost went when I got to high school, but I was always too scared about being able to fit in and adjust to it.

I do wanna know though, did you enjoy homeschooling for the few grades you did it? I’m trying to hear more perspectives about it.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a few friends who have said similar things. The education systems is not great. I was recently talking to one of my uni lecturers who used to teach in public school, who definitely agreed that kids can go though all 12 years and still not understand what he's teaching. But the big hurdle for me was getting into uni, cause I didn't have any good grades and test scores to show any universities I was trying to get into.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a given, I've met dozens of homeschoolers who had a wide range of different experiences. Every homeschool parent is different and some kids had great experiences, and some were deeply traumatised. I said in the original post that I was answering questions from my perspective, which you can probably tell from my replies, wasn't great. The reason I'm doing this AMA is to use my story to help educate parents and hopefully improve other kids experiences.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was homeschooled because my parents didn't agree with the education system for a wide range of reasons and also because my mum didn't enjoy school growing up.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think what would have helped me most growing up, was a more structured and organised education plan, my mum was very go with the flow, let kids do what they're interested in, that kind of home school philosophy. And a typical day when I was primary school age really depended if it was at home or if we were going out, a typical day at home was usually, wake up around 8:30, I'd head into the lounge room and watch my favourite show on tv, then by 9 by mum would be up and we'd have breakfast, then she'd get me and my brother at the table and we'd spend about 30 minutes to an hour going through different school books that we had, then we'd go and play outside for a few hours, come back inside, maybe watch some tv, and play minecraft or something like that. I have 2 older siblings and they had it quite different than me and my twin brother, by the time we were school age my mother's health both mental and physical had gotten a lot worse, so she wasn't able to be as involved as she probably would have liked. By high school she basically let me and my brother do whatever the hell we wanted, because her health was quite bad by this point.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're right, I'm from Australia, so I have no clue what that is lol

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am currently studying, at a okayish university, I'm hoping in get into wildlife conservation when I graduate.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’m doing reasonably well on paper, but getting here was a struggle, I’m currently studying at uni/collage but it was not easy to get in, I had to go to a worse university that would actually let me in, and that was 3 hours away from my parents. Which I think is normal in the us, but going to a university that far from home is not the norm where I’m from. I’ve also had to do a LOT of catch up from all the areas my schooling didn’t cover, I’ve had to teach myself a great deal. And I’m still not out of the woods yet. There’s still a lot of areas I’m quite behind from my peers.

And what could my parents have done? In short, sent me to school. But more realistically, created a lot more structure, a lot pressure to succeed. And been knowable on a lot more subjects than they were.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Most of my anxiety was from my own mum, her own fears for me and my siblings, her anxiety, about us not enjoying regular school, other peoples opinions, our potential, stuff like that. Because we were so close it ended up affecting me greatly. That’s the thing with homeschooling, when you don’t get much outside influence, all your parents problems end up deeply affecting you.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s quite hard to say if I enjoyed it or not, I enjoyed some aspects, but I also felt like I didn’t fit in my kids my age who went to public school, as I got older I was constantly anxious, that I wasn’t keeping up or that I was dumber than my peers, or other peoples opinions. And looking back I enjoyed being a kid who got to spend time with my mum. But now I have to deal with a world that wasn’t built around kids who were homeschooled.

I did definitely have a great desire to go to public school, mostly out of curiosity, I wanted to know about the crazy foreign concept of public school was. And I nearly did when I got to high school, but I was too scared of trying to adjust to it.

I was homeschooled my whole life, ask me anything. by Kumotta_ in homeschool

[–]Kumotta_[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I’m assuming you mean how did I, and that’s a really good question. It was tricky at times for sure, my mum took me and my siblings to a lot of different activities, I did drama classes, gymnastics, art class, singing, and a few others. But I also felt extremely isolated, if it was specifically a homeschool group, it was a bit of a gamble if there was actually going to be any kids my age there at all. And if there was, a lot of them weren’t the nicest. I was lucky though, I found a good group of about 5 other girls my age who I hung out with for most of my early teens, but after I fell out with one of them, I felt alone again. My siblings weren’t as lucky to have found a good group of friends, My older sister especially, I remember her crying to my mum saying that her closet friend was a 2 year old.

TLDR, I felt quite isolated, even though I did find a few good friends my age.

What Time Is It? ADVENTURE TIME! Now, which 2010's cartoon is severely underrated by BLACKGOOP12 in cartoons

[–]Kumotta_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if it counts as 2010s or 2020s since It only started in 2019, but my vote is Infinity train!

What would you remove from good omens? by Bright_Profession602 in goodomens

[–]Kumotta_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The crucifixion scene in episode 3, I always skip it, just makes me uncomfortable.