Anti-Mental Health
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Anti-Mental Health
@mh_reform
There are more of us that have fallen prey to PHarma, than the very stars that hang in the sky. https://t.co/OjzN9eofE3





My 3rd grade teacher referred me to special ed cuz she thought i was retarded, cuz I have dysgraphia and wouldn't write long drawn out sentences to answer reading questions. She sent me to the "lower" reading group, and gave me the book they were reading, and told me to "work hard to catch up." Seriously, there'd be questions like, "What did little Timmy do when people teased him in chapter 7" and i'd just like "Timmy went and told the teacher that the kids were bullying him." and apparently I was supposed to write a whole fucking paragraph about Timmy squealing to the teacher. Since I had trouble writing, I just kept things short, to prove i read the lesson, and understood it. I still remember the book the lower reading group forced on me. "Race Against Death: A True Story of the Far North" by Seymour Reit. Basically a book about the mushers bringing diphtheria medicine to Nome, Alaska. It was a pretty cool book, but way below my level. I speedread the whole thing during lunch and the reading class right after (while kids struggled to read) and after the class I told the teacher I finished it, and gave a synopsis on the whole book. She was convinced I somehow cheated and sent me to the office. (This is the same teacher that called me "Oreo" to my classmates and encouraged them to tease me cuz mom was white.)





