out of all the aspects of millennial-bashing, i think the one that most confuses me is the “millennials all got trophies as a kid, so now they’re all self-centered narcissists” theory
like— kids are pretty smart, y’all. they can see that every kid on the team gets a trophy and is told they did a good job; they can also see that not every kid on the team deserves a trophy, and not everyone did do a good job
the logical conclusion to draw from this is not “i’m great and i deserve praise”— it’s “no matter how mediocre i am, people will still praise me to make me feel better, so i can’t trust any compliments or accolades i receive”
this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.
where did this whole “ugh millennials think their so-so work is super great” thing even come from it is a goddamn mystery
this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.
Which is pretty much what mental health practitioners observe happening.
It’s also what I observed happening as a singing teacher: the older kids literally would not believe a positive word I said until I had proved I would tell them they screwed up/had done badly/etc. I did so in as useful a way as possible (“So this passage. We really need to work on this passage. A lot. This passage is not good yet.”), but with almost every adolescent I taught I had to prove I would give them straight-up criticism before they would parse my praise as anything other than meaningless “the grownups always do this” noise.
So I know its Selective Mutism month and most people arent going to pay attention or care because there are more interesting awareness things during october but as I noticed we have no #actuallymute tag for people with mutism I thought it might be nice if we did have one.
People who dont have any form of mutism, if you could signal boost this tag that would be great.
she keep me worm
reblog if u hate capitalism but u still want to make money because you need money to survive capitalism lmao i’m sad
why is it that villains and not protagonists are always the ones breaking gender roles hmmmm
it’s called queercoding and it’s intentional and basically brainwashes kids into having negative associations with those traits
READ IF YOU ARE AN INDIGENOUS/NATIVE PERSON (and please reblog if you aren’t to spread the tag)
Hello, I am an native american tumblr user and I noticed there is no tag besides just ndn and tags of the like for native peoples. I want to make this tag for native peoples for blogging about really anything that relates to native culture like pictures of cultural items, folklore, talking about problems regarding native culture, etc.
I came up with indeedindigenous as the tag name
This tag includes not just native americans, but all native peoples (i.e inuits, aboriginal peoples around the world in general etc.)
Please boost this indigenous or not
2nd day of inktober