True train tales - class in session
Met a woman on the train today who has bipolar disorder and has completely given up her car to honor her mother's environmentalism and "druid spirit" upon her death last year. Her family is from the Ft. Worth area but she moved to Austin because "there is no public transportation in Arlington. It's gone before the voters several times but they keep rejecting it because they don't want to let 'those people' into the community."
Her bipolar diagnosis didn't happen until adulthood and she vividly remembers never being able to finish an entire book throughout high school. Now, with medication, she's currently reading "War and Peace" and often wishes it could be broken into several smaller novellas for easier transport on the train since "it's just too heavy to carry around."
She is divorced with two daughters. One preteen daughter is transgender and no longer attends public school since they live in a poor community and AISD tells her: "We cannot protect your child."
Instead, she has spent her life learning about education and its impact upon kids. At first, she wanted to be a teacher, but then decided that school is a way to produce more automatons. In fact, during college, she learned the Industrial Revolution drastically changed public education to support corporations by creating kids who will "follow rules" rather than to encourage critical thinking or providing an actual education (a legacy that continues today in her estimation).
She feels that her preteen will not want to attend college but cosmetology school (or another creative pursuit) since she does much better with hair, makeup, and writing rap songs in her spare time.
"She's so good that she recreates herself as Marilyn Monroe and you'd never believe it's not [Marilyn] in the photos."
The eldest daughter is 16 and has also been diagnosed as bipolar.
"When I was a kid," she said, "I was always chosen last for softball and other sports because I'd always be out in left field going: 'Oh, look at the pretty butterfly.'"
Then, it's her stop.
Her bipolar diagnosis didn't happen until adulthood and she vividly remembers never being able to finish an entire book throughout high school. Now, with medication, she's currently reading "War and Peace" and often wishes it could be broken into several smaller novellas for easier transport on the train since "it's just too heavy to carry around."
She is divorced with two daughters. One preteen daughter is transgender and no longer attends public school since they live in a poor community and AISD tells her: "We cannot protect your child."
Instead, she has spent her life learning about education and its impact upon kids. At first, she wanted to be a teacher, but then decided that school is a way to produce more automatons. In fact, during college, she learned the Industrial Revolution drastically changed public education to support corporations by creating kids who will "follow rules" rather than to encourage critical thinking or providing an actual education (a legacy that continues today in her estimation).
She feels that her preteen will not want to attend college but cosmetology school (or another creative pursuit) since she does much better with hair, makeup, and writing rap songs in her spare time.
"She's so good that she recreates herself as Marilyn Monroe and you'd never believe it's not [Marilyn] in the photos."
The eldest daughter is 16 and has also been diagnosed as bipolar.
"When I was a kid," she said, "I was always chosen last for softball and other sports because I'd always be out in left field going: 'Oh, look at the pretty butterfly.'"
Then, it's her stop.
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