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15 votes
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Reading Lolita in the barracks
22 votes -
Fairy tales contain useful lessons for navigating our interactions with the internet
28 votes -
Request: etiquette instructions for neurodiverse teens
Looking for books that target (1) teen person and (2) parents which go over with a fine tooth comb how to navigate basic social skills. I'm looking for something with as explicit instructions as...
Looking for books that target (1) teen person and (2) parents which go over with a fine tooth comb how to navigate basic social skills.
I'm looking for something with as explicit instructions as possible, such as "when someone gives you something, catch their attention, make eye contact, and speak in a loud enough voice to say thank you".
I need something with troubleshooting involved such as, what if they're not looking at me, what if the environment is loud, what if I have my mouth full, what if I've already said it and they didn't hear. I need the instructions to cover things like "what if I'm supposed to follow two conflicting rules".
Basically explaining human customs and manners to bodiless angels who do not learn from observation and whose minds are pure intellect wholly sufficient unto itself, and who need to expend energy and effort to interact with mortals on our plane and operate on our dimensions.
Basics like, how to pass through a doorway when someone is holding the door for you, how to move out of the way when someone is coming towards you on a narrow sidewalk, how to pull over a shopping cart so it doesn't block other shoppers, don't throw/toss things at people when they ask for you to pass an object. These statements have been repeatedly shared with them any number of times to no avail: they're not looking at the world in the same way at all. They're not situationally aware, they're not interested in the world.
I grew up in a world that just screams at people until they behave out of fear and forced compliance. I'm trying to find a different way. Thank you kindly for any recommendations or suggestions.
25 votes -
The day job
7 votes -
Z-Library helps students to overcome academic poverty, study finds
38 votes -
The elite college students who can’t read books
57 votes -
Danecdotes: Reminiscences and Reflections Concerning a Largely Wasted Life
9 votes -
Everybody's obsessed with the retro corporate aesthetic
6 votes -
Booktok and the hotgirlification of reading
19 votes -
You don’t need more resilience. You need friends. And money.
44 votes -
Mushrooms, snails and plant roots: The surprising story of how your clothes got their color
13 votes -
Arnold Schwarzenegger is here to pump you up (emotionally)
9 votes -
Swedish schools minister Lotta Edholm moves students off digital devices and on to books and handwriting, with teachers and experts debating the pros and cons
20 votes -
Grimes and Elon Musk reveal third child, Techno Mechanicus, in new biography
33 votes -
Twelve badass sci-fi and fantasy female heroes written by women
10 votes -
Policeman and reformed criminal who shot him meet face-to-face | Crime Stories
9 votes -
The book To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick by Alden Wicker explores public health and fast fashion
6 votes -
The reaction economy
3 votes -
Bed Habits - One insomniac’s descent into the world of sleep research to understand what screens before bed are doing to our brains
4 votes -
Hannah Gadsby on her autism diagnosis: ‘I’ve always been plagued by a sense that I was a little out of whack’
7 votes -
It’s not easy running a geeky business
4 votes -
Disaster planning for regular folks
9 votes -
I left poverty after writing 'Maid.' But poverty never left me
6 votes -
Deep Work: The secret to achieving peak productivity
7 votes -
Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story
9 votes -
The way we work is killing us - An interview with the author of Dying for a Paycheck
15 votes -
David Foster Wallace putting into words a dread we're all familiar with
5 votes -
The key to a good life is avoiding pain (Epicurus)
6 votes -
The Mastermind - He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized US government asset
3 votes -
How to use bureaucracies
6 votes -
The memoir by Steve Jobs' daughter makes clear he was a truly rotten person whose bad behavior was repeatedly enabled by those around him
17 votes -
What I think the anti-bullying books get wrong
8 votes