Comment by michaelt

18 hours ago

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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.

  • > 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.

    • In what sense is it "immersion" if there are only one or two French speakers in the room (the teacher and an assistant?)??

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.