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    1. bosco‏ @selentelechia 16 Apr 2020

      bosco Retweeted bosco

      I can elaborate on this if anyone is interested the broken clock analogy I make in this thread is flawed, bc unlike a broken clock, both children and donald trump are agents you have to learn how to *attend* to what they're doing without *reacting*https://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1250852771760230400 …

      bosco added,

      bosco @selentelechia
      perhaps my experience working with severely traumatized and cognitively disabled children may provide a better analogy yes the kids have the agency to do things that hurt themselves or others and you need to address that but...
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    2. bosco‏ @selentelechia 16 Apr 2020

      I developed a "persona" over the decade+ dealing with foster kids which I jokingly call "teenage babysitter voice" it's actually a defense mechanism for my sanity when I'm around people I cannot model and cannot ignore

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    3. bosco‏ @selentelechia 16 Apr 2020

      you can't be detached you can't just *not care* you must take them seriously but if you draw on your models of interacting with people who at least have a predictable social interface...

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    4. bosco‏ @selentelechia 16 Apr 2020

      ...you will find yourself wounded, burnt out, and mired in an escalating conflict you can neither end nor escape

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    5. bosco‏ @selentelechia 16 Apr 2020

      bosco Retweeted bosco

      this thread explores a failure mode I've seen foster parents fall into assuming the kid is trying to *hurt them in particular* this may be true but it's a completely ineffective attitude to havehttps://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1250864717532299266?s=19 …

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      bosco @selentelechia
      one way to lose your sanity fast when trying to deal with someone you can't model is to model them as an enemy when you might just be in their way
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 16 Apr 2020
      Replying to @selentelechia

      wow for all the crap that happened, that PoV NEVER occurred to me. It was just "damn, these kids are SO broken that they CAN'T do X, like reasonable / normal kids, and can ONLY do Y. GAHHHHH. I WISH WE'D KNOWN / I WISH THEY WEREN'T BROKEN."

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    7. bosco‏ @selentelechia 16 Apr 2020
      Replying to @MorlockP

      I think reflectively that's how a lot of foster parents feel but in the middle of a crisis and particularly with reactive-attachment kids a lot of parents get sucked into this kind of mutually antagonistic frame

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    8. bosco‏ @selentelechia 16 Apr 2020
      Replying to @selentelechia @MorlockP

      there is a particularly nasty philosophy around parenting kids with RAD that takes the "enemy" stance as kind of implicit and advises parents to *induce total dependence* on the kids this is why I Hate Nancy Thomas 😬

      3 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    9. bosco‏ @selentelechia 16 Apr 2020
      Replying to @selentelechia @MorlockP

      getting angry thinking about this again lol it is like the parenting-advice manifestation of @diviacaroline's spiritual opposite

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 16 Apr 2020
      Replying to @selentelechia @diviacaroline

      I was flipping through http://photos.google.com  earlier today and came across the 6 months of the kids and had very weird conflicting emotions not shame, exactly not regret just ... aversion I was trying to scroll past them quickly, literally looking off to one side what a mess

      12:35 PM - 16 Apr 2020
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