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I remember one time I was doing an ADHD evaluation with a kid who had asked to go to the bathroom like 3 times during the 30-ish minute part of the interview where we asked his mom questions, so I knew that was his go-to excuse when bored. We get started on the WISC-V after the interview and within 30 seconds of vocab starting he asks if he can go to the bathroom, and I say:
“No.”
And this kid rolls his eyes because DUH and he says “Why not?” all cranky-styles, so I said
“Because you don’t need to go to the bathroom, you’re bored and you need to move. If you need to move, tell me and I’ll let you know if we’re at a part of the test where we can pause. Like, for example, we can pause right now if you wanna race me around the building.”
And this kids face fucken LIT up. We did three laps around the outside of the building and came back in and he finished like 3 subtests and asked if he could move so we got up and tried to see how high we could jump for 3 minutes and the finished the rest of the assessment with one bathroom break. And that was all it took tbh, this kid was SO capable he just needed to move and hadn’t been allowed to do so before. I also like making people mad by pointing out that I know what they’re up to, then just giving them permission to do the thing they were sneakily trying to do in the first place. It’s like being affectionately annoying and it’s part of how I connect to others.
I legit don't think my youngest brother would have made it through elementary school if he hadn't had teachers that let him stand up at his desk and move back and forth during class.

this picture actually makes me so sad
In Honor of Disgraced Dilbert Artist Scott Adam's passing, here is the internet archive link to the Dilbereeto flash game:
against his wishes scott adams will be given a sky burial in an effort to control vulture populations and minimize harm done to humans by his vengeful ghost
post that gets one like from oomf is what is known as "the gentleman's DM"
so like is anyone else seeing what's happening on the dilbert website right now




