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jbm 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's a growing market, although it might be because of shifting goal posts. I had a friend whose son was placed in French immersion (a language he doesn't speak at all). From what I was understanding, he was getting up and walking around in kindergarten and was labelled as mentally divergent; his teachers apparently suggested to his mother that he see a doctor.

(Strangely these "mental illnesses" and school problems went away after he switched to an English language school, must be a miracle)

I assume the loneliness epidemic is producing similar cases.

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doormatt 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> I had a friend whose son was placed in French immersion (a language he doesn't speak at all).

In my entire french immersion Kindergarden class, there was a total of one child who already spoke French. I don't think the fact that he didn't speak the language is the concern.

	▲	pxc 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In what sense is it "immersion" if there are only one or two French speakers in the room (the teacher and an assistant?)??

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WarmWash 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They control reddit and used to control twitter.

There is/was an interesting period where "normies" were joining twitter en-masse, and adopted many of the denizens ideas as normal widespread ideas. Kinda like going on a camping trip at "the lake" because you heard it's fun and not realizing that everyone else on the trip is part of a semi-deranged cult.

The outsized effect of this was journalists thinking these people on twitter were accurate representations of what society on the whole was thinking.

	▲	greenchair 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		good observation. twitch has even more loons.

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liveoneggs 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

wasn't there a trend on twitter to have a bio/signature with a bunch of mental illness acronyms?