Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey

“Normal” and “weird” require each other. You can be weird and well-socialized. In fact, if you are “weird,” sometimes they best thing your parents can do is help you find a community that reflects your interests, allowing you to develop social skills more easily

It’s delusional to believe you can force your child to be “normal” and that it can be done via keeping them away from “weird” kids. “Normalcy,” aka, the extent to which you align with common behaviors and interests, is a continuum and you fall where you fall on it

@tracewoodgrains It also helps “weird” kids learn to socialize to have interactions within their sphere of interest. Other than extreme outliers, most kids will develop some social skills by being (sans parents) with peers with a natural reason to talk to them.

I don’t think it would have been possible for me to be “well socialized” and stripped of strange obsessive hobbies or interests and weird friends It is a service to teach your kids how to interact well with others but some kids will be weird and that’s fine

@Absyrte @CartoonsHateHer No, being weird has negative connotations but there is absolutely nothing wrong with being different or having fewer people who “get” you. I feel sorry for kids whose parents make them feel that their natural interests will make them unlikeable outcasts.

@gcgarvey @CartoonsHateHer Being weird or a weirdo is an insult. Someone with peculiar interests is an eccentric. If you don’t want your kid to be insulted and ostracized, you should socialize them. That way , they'll ’have beloved quirks at worse, and they’ll find their people much more easily

If she means "weird" as in "liking anime and/or theater" then she's wrong (and those things aren't even that weird.) If she means "weird" as in "struggles to understand social cues" then she's right. I have written on this.

@Absyrte @CartoonsHateHer Weird and socialized are different. Sure you can accustom a child to social interactions, but their personalities matter.

@gcgarvey @CartoonsHateHer You are wrong, you can definitely help your kid get social skills by forcing them to socialize a lot, my parents dragged me everywhere growing up, invited everyone and forced me to stay and interact with many people, going from kids to seniors

@CartoonsHateHer And as for “annoying,” can’t do much about that, either. You can teach manners, but there’s a ceiling for social adeptness, and most folks (outside of extreme outliers) pretty much hits theirs in early adulthood, no matter what.

@CartoonsHateHer You can’t force a kid to be “not weird.” You either are or are not weird. These ladies aren’t doing anyone any favors by treating being odd as a disease that kids can catch by spending time with anime fans.

There is one team that has played both World Cup finalists They also didn’t lose to either over 90 minutes Cape Verde

Unlike the Parthenon Marbles, England is going home.

@bendreyfuss I’ll root for England when they send back the Parthenon Marbles.

Britain is proto-America, and Argentina and Spain are frankly not very important to America, so while I wish them the best in general, it seems incredibly clear to me that everyone in America should root for our limey cousins

Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' Bryce Harper.

These are the roots of many “new” societal problems: an over-generalization based on limited information from social media, combined with people selectively using that information to validate previously held beliefs.

She said way worse things than that he was a “colonized Cameroonian.” Not sure why they’re leading with that instead of the part where she said he grew up among chimpanzees, suckled on coconuts instead of breastmilk.

Some of our brightest minds are discussing how to boost well-being among all human workers. (Haha. Just kidding. They’re worried about whether AI “likes” its job.) washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Şu haritaya bakıp hâlâ "Burnumuzun dibinde Yunan adası mı olur, burası aslında bizim olmalıydı" diye gerçeklikten kopuk yorumlar yapanların anlamadığı çok temel bir şey var: Haritayı sadece coğrafi bir yakınlık sanıyorsunuz ama oradaki her bir mavi nokta, yüzlerce yıllık askeri ve demografik bir realitenin sonucudur. Bu adaların yerel halkı tarihsel olarak Yunan'dır, bugün de resmi olarak Yunanistan toprağıdır. Evet, adalar Anadolu'nun dibindedir ama Ege, coğrafi yapısı gereği doğal olarak bir Yunan gölüdür ve bu durum onlara muazzam bir stratejik avantaj sağlar. Bu sınırlar size tuhaf, hatta kabul edilemez geliyor; çünkü tarih bilginiz yok. Eğer normali, yani o dönemki güç dengelerinin doğal sonucu olsaydı, bugün sadece o adalar değil, İzmir ve tüm Ege bölgesi de onların olacaktı! "Burnumuzun dibi" dediğiniz adalara gidecek tek bir yolcu geminiz bile yokken, Yunanistan Ege’de modern bir savaş donanmasına sahipti ve Balkan Savaşları'nda o adaları tek tek, ellerini kollarını sallayarak zaten aldılar. İngiltere, 1. Dünya Savaşı’nda Yunanistan’ı üzerimize salarken onlara tam olarak bu yoğun Yunan nüfusunun yaşadığı Ege bölgesini vadetmişti. Kara savaşındaki askeri direnişimiz bu planı bozdu da Lozan'da İzmir’i kurtarabildik. Yani bugün milliyetçilik yaptığınız o adaların durumu Lozan'ın bir başarısızlığı değil; denizde sıfır askeri güçle masaya oturmanın kaçınılmaz, zorunlu bir diplomatik dengesidir. Konuyu anlamayanlar için daha net soralım: İzmir’e neden yüzyıllarca "Gâvur İzmir" denildi, hiç düşündünüz mü? Osmanlı’nın sırf nüfus dengelensin diye Türkleri yerleştirdiği Karşıyaka semti hariç, İzmir ve çevresi tamamen Rum ve Yunan bölgesiydi. Cumhuriyet kurulup 1923'teki nüfus mübadelesiyle o devasa takas yapılmasaydı, bugün övündüğünüz İzmir’de Türk hakimiyeti bile olmayacaktı. Haritaya bakıp cehaletle hayıflanmayı bırakın; deniz gücünüzün olmadığı bir dünyada, burnunuzun dibindeki adaların başkasına ait olması "anormal" değil, tarihin en yalın gerçeğidir. ​Bu yüzden artık Yunanistan ile aptalca bir gerilim yaratmayı ve hatta savaşa girmeyi tetikleyecek söylemleri bir kenara bırakalım. Macera aramanın lüzumu yok; aksi halde Lozan'ı geçersiz kıldığınız, o masayı devirdiğiniz an, sadece adaları alamamakla kalmaz, Lozan'da binbir zorlukla kazandıklarımızı da masada kaybedersiniz.

@devastatingstan @DistractedAnna Also, Beowulf is 3,000 LINES long, not words.

@gcgarvey @DistractedAnna It‘s not 1000 words of prose, it’s 1000 words of poetry! Ozymandias by Shelley is 50 words long!!! Beowulf is only 3000 and it’s part of an oral storytelling tradition. It’s an INSANE amount of poetry to just drop on someone, not to mention it’s obv going to be terrible.

That lady who handed her new and struggling friend 1,000 words of poetry and fiction and then got upset and embarrassed when it went badly is a pretty good example of why you should not tell odd people to “just be yourself” without serious caveats

@devastatingstan @DistractedAnna Ozymandias is about 100 words long and it’s a sonnet. She said it was a mix of fiction and poetry. Even if the fiction was only one paragraph long, that’s still like five sonnets, not some epic tome. People just can’t be put out in the slightest to be polite anymore

@BeepBoo09508727 @DistractedAnna Unless she mistyped and instead of 1,000 words, it was 1,000 pages in which case accept it, thank her profusely and then change your phone number.

@gcgarvey @DistractedAnna This is what I also thought,accept it,read it and be quietly weirded out.