Couple of unrelated thoughts....
Sep. 12th, 2021 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly1. While awake this early morning trying to avoid going to bed (boil hurts when I transition between sitting and lying down, or the other way around) I went to Amitheasshole to find something to read and bumped right into a thread about whether or not Stuy kids who were in Lower Manhattan that day are survivors. Which, fuck yeah, but it reminded me of how very sick and tired I am of all the press around Stuyvesant all the fucking time.
I know for a damn fact that there were two high schools much closer, wedged in between Trinity Church and the WTC, and those kids barely got any press at all. They evacuated to Staten Island, ended up at my zoned school in the rush, and the only thing I ever read about them after that I can sum up in two snippets from two articles one about a kid who had a hand fall on him from the sky as he fled, and another about how the two schools, which shared classes normally, had been placed in temporary buildings across the city from each other so that all their specials that they shared had to be changed.
Meanwhile, Stuy gets articles and documentaries all the freaking time, because it's Stuyvesant, and quite aside from the fact that this focus on them to the exclusion of all else is blatantly classist/racist, it's also toxic to Stuy students. But that whole environment in and surrounding that school is very toxic, so what else is new.
2. In retrospect, I'm very lucky that I had my mental health crisis in high school when I did, or else my mother certainly would have been in the city - she switched her hours to be later when I stopped attending regularly. (I might not have been in the city. If I hadn't missed the end of my sophomore year + all the regents I would have graduated on time, a year earlier. Come to think, I probably still could've done it if I'd been willing to heavily load up my schedule and maybe do some independent study. When I did attend Stuy, they actually had to make a rule forbidding students from having a ten period day and no lunch. Like I said, the place is toxic.)
3. Anyway, all this and the boil had me using Eva's weighted blanket which I need to return to her when the weather gets cooler, and that reminded me of something. I used to love getting x-rayed at the dentist when I was a kid because I got to wear the lead apron. It's not worth it to lug a weighted blanket or vest over to the dentist, but I wonder if I could ask him if I could just wear the lead apron when he deals with my teeth? He might say yes!
4. Also that reddit link made me think of 9/11 and I spent the entire rest of the night smelling it which ugh.
I know for a damn fact that there were two high schools much closer, wedged in between Trinity Church and the WTC, and those kids barely got any press at all. They evacuated to Staten Island, ended up at my zoned school in the rush, and the only thing I ever read about them after that I can sum up in two snippets from two articles one about a kid who had a hand fall on him from the sky as he fled, and another about how the two schools, which shared classes normally, had been placed in temporary buildings across the city from each other so that all their specials that they shared had to be changed.
Meanwhile, Stuy gets articles and documentaries all the freaking time, because it's Stuyvesant, and quite aside from the fact that this focus on them to the exclusion of all else is blatantly classist/racist, it's also toxic to Stuy students. But that whole environment in and surrounding that school is very toxic, so what else is new.
2. In retrospect, I'm very lucky that I had my mental health crisis in high school when I did, or else my mother certainly would have been in the city - she switched her hours to be later when I stopped attending regularly. (I might not have been in the city. If I hadn't missed the end of my sophomore year + all the regents I would have graduated on time, a year earlier. Come to think, I probably still could've done it if I'd been willing to heavily load up my schedule and maybe do some independent study. When I did attend Stuy, they actually had to make a rule forbidding students from having a ten period day and no lunch. Like I said, the place is toxic.)
3. Anyway, all this and the boil had me using Eva's weighted blanket which I need to return to her when the weather gets cooler, and that reminded me of something. I used to love getting x-rayed at the dentist when I was a kid because I got to wear the lead apron. It's not worth it to lug a weighted blanket or vest over to the dentist, but I wonder if I could ask him if I could just wear the lead apron when he deals with my teeth? He might say yes!
4. Also that reddit link made me think of 9/11 and I spent the entire rest of the night smelling it which ugh.
