- her parents didn’t belive she was hearing “monsters” in the walls. it was 60,000 bees
- she is 3 years old
- her parents gave her a spray bottle to “spray away the monsters”. it was 60,000 bees
- they didn’t belive her for 8 minths
- removal cost them $20,000 BECAUSE IT WAS 60,000 BEES!!!!!!
Ok ok MUCH smaller version of this.
When my daughter was like two and a half years old she started getting anxious whenever we’d go to the front yard. She wanted to hold my hand, or she’d hesitate to go at all, and she kept demanding “what’s that noise?!?” All the time.
And I’m trying to be reassuring going “that’s a birdie singing to us’😊” or “yeah look at the air plane way up there!😊😊😊” and sometimes I wasn’t really sure what sound she meant but I mean I’m in a city so there’s always something so it’s a car, a motorcycle, whatever.
Meanwhile every time I answer she looks at me like 😒😒😒and she doesn’t get any less nervous.
Anyways after like a month of this she’s only more upset, and has started insisting there’s a ghost outside. I figure she’s been watching too many scary Halloween cartoons and double down on my reassurances.
Anyways long story short I needed hearing aids and this poor kid had been hearing the neighbors Halloween decorations cackling in a scary voice every time the wind hit it while her mom kept insisting it was birds or an airplane or whatever.
I figured out which decoration made the sound and let her poke it and see it was a noisy toy and after that she loved it and stopped being nervous and I apologized and explained to her what happened.
And the moral of the story is to listen to kids and to remember to get your hearing checked regularly in case of childhood phobia development or 60,000 bees.
“the western narratives around opponents of western hegemony are often biased and distorted and not actually reflective of reality and shouldn’t be taken uncritically”
yes absolutely
“so the best way to counteract those biased narratives is to uncritically believe whatever the counternarrative is”
no, you don’t actually have to do that
I was on a media literacy training today and the person running the workshop was describing how algorithms work to manipulate the viewer to keep them hooked on the site. Someone in the chat unironically posted that TikTok wasn’t like that and hoped Trump wouldn’t ruin it. I tried to push back and they said the TikTok algorithm wasn’t biased because they were seeing videos that supported their beliefs. My brother in Christ…that is the entire point.
