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28 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
It is happening, cookie decoration time. ImageImage
My gingerbread person is a mood. Image
Once we finish, we can feast (I stopped at two decorating so we didn't run out of icing) ImageImageImageImage
Whereas my beautiful pixiator is bringing the love. Image
Classic Lucas 😅 ImageImage
Eleanor, with a very fancy Christmas tree and an extremely happy love heart. Image

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30 Dec
The thing about trauma, is that when something happens that reminds you of your trauma (a similar event, or a similar smell, or taste, or some other stimuli). It triggers a trauma response in you. This manifests in different ways for different people.
So, in terms of people in Melbourne freaking out about Sydney's seemingly lacking response to the current outbreak, coupled with the new cases in Victoria - this is going to trigger a trauma response.

The lockdown was traumatising.

How much, depends on the individual.
When you have a trauma response, it is physically terrifying. Your adrenaline might surge. You could feel afraid. You could feel angry. You might react by lashing out. You might shut down. You might have anxiety that it is all "going to happen again".
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30 Dec
Hey can someone who has political clout push for a guarantee from @GregHuntMP @ScottMorrisonMP that the 20 #BetterAccess Medicare subsidised sessions will be in place for the entirety of 2021 (at least)? Continuity of #mentalhealth care and #suicideprevention relies on planning.
Many people plan carefully to stretch their sessions out across a year, which means that they may be wary of utilising 10 in the first half of the year, only to find that they're then without access to affordable care if the system changes again.
In an ideal world, there would be mass availability of bulk billing psychologists and psychiatrists, but there are not. At the very least this system allows some people to afford care, but being able to budget their out of pocket costs means knowing how long coverage will last.
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30 Dec
Extremely sotto voce, 'Criminalisation of those who start community transmissions for outbreaks isn't a sound health policy, and the name of patient zero is only relevant to health workers and contact tracers, and is none of our business.'
I know we are annoyed at rich people who may have recklessly flouted quarantine, but no one's name, or identifying details, beyond places they have visited should be public knowledge.
One of the best sociologists I know has broken this down in an excellent thread you can find here,
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8 Dec
This entire thread, super important for educators and parents of Autistic children. In Australia, if your child has a diagnosis (I know this is fraught) you can take reports to the school and request an NEP (Negotiated Education Plan) that formally puts in requirements. (Cont..)
Not only do we have an NEP for our eldest, we also make sure to have a face to face scheduled chat if he has a new teacher that year (or via class messenger during a pandemic), to clarify communications around learning and specific needs. We check in regularly with our kid and
With the school to make certain that his needs are being met. On report cards and grading, we have always focused on comments around how they work (which can also be problematic, but we are fortunate our teachers are very good in this area).
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7 Dec
Funemployment begins. Signing up to some learning course to look at a possible career change, gonna go get me some technology learning over the summer.
I'm starting with Azure fundamentals. Microsoft is offering a lot of their courses for free at the moment (you just need to pay for the certifications).
Microsoft really went and named something Blob storage.
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7 Dec
Class allocation is always stressful for students and teachers. The kids list their friends and then the teachers try to put them in a class with them, and manage other stuff (a bunch of kids' dad teaches at the school for example so they can't be in his class).
We did Lucas' NEP (Negotiated Education Plan) review the other day, and discussed in that, that having the same teacher would be really beneficial to him. The teacher and he have formed a relationship, and he communicates well with us.
He's made modifications to the workload, and its been a great school year (no real complaints about heading to school for example). So today a school leader calls us and tells us they can't do chosen friendship group and teacher, so what would we prefer?
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