Ma'am, that's an epic god own. Do you also like carntoons about atheism such as Ricky Morty?
Apparently she enrolled in university alongside her 11 year-old daughter:
https://dixiesunnews.com/news/articles/2016/11/11/mom-11-year-old-daughter-team-dsu-classmates/
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Mom, 11-year-old daughter team up as DSU classmates
She’s the youngest student at Dixie State University, and she already has plans to be an evil overlord and rule the world one day.
“She’s accepting applications for minions,” said Asia Lemmon, a sophomore psychology major from New York City and mother of Catalina “Catty” Lemmon.
Catty, a freshman general education major from St. George, is an 11-year-old prodigy who is enrolled full-time at DSU and taking classes in trigonometry, English and art. She said the reason she started attending DSU was an accident.
“The school I was supposed to attend didn’t open on schedule,” Catty said. “Luckily, I had already taken my SATs when I was 10, and they were good enough to get me into (DSU).”
Asia Lemmon said there wasn’t another school fit for Catty, who had already gotten an A in a college pre-calculus class over the summer and scored a perfect grade on DSU’s math placement test.
“So I took her to school with me,” Asia Lemmon said.
Catty and her mother are more than just classmates at DSU; they’re best friends, Asia Lemmon said.
“I love being able to eat lunch and study with Catty, and we text back and forth all day with funny stories to make each other laugh,” Asia Lemmon said. “It’s definitely a very special experience.”
Asia Lemmon was widowed when Catty was one and when she was pregnant with Catty’s younger brother, she said. Since then, she said she has stayed home 24/7 to homeschool Catty and Catty’s brother. Catty was rejected from entering kindergarten for being too young at age four, so Asia Lemmon said she had to wage an “endless war” to keep Catty academically challenged. She said she homeschooled Catty for 10 years.
“By the end of that 10 years, I was about to go stark raving mad if I didn’t start doing something more mentally challenging for myself,” Asia Lemmon said. “I’m grateful I was able to homeschool my kids the way I did, but now I have to go back to school so I can keep up with them.”
While Catty and her brother are brilliant, Asia Lemmon said they are “twice-exceptional,” which means they are gifted in some areas and delayed in others. Catty struggles with anxiety and her brother is autistic and has ADHD, Asia Lemmon said.
“It’s not an easy task meeting the needs of kids who are outside the norm in so many different ways,” Asia Lemmon said.
Asia Lemmon said her goal is to help other “twice-exceptional” children after she graduates with her psychology degree.
“There are very few professionals trained specifically in helping [‘twice-exceptional’] children,” Asia Lemmon said.
Catty said the biggest challenge for her so far in college is not her anxiety but writing a English paper on feminism, because feminism “is a hard topic for me to relate to as an eleven-year-old.” She said people don’t treat her any differently than older students, and many of her classmates don’t realize how young she actually is.
Catty said she plans to go as far as she can in math at DSU and will see what happens when she graduates.
“I don’t have plans for what happens after college, because even after I graduate, I’ll still be too young to drive or get a job,” Catty said.
The bit about her kids being twice-exceptional was really heartwarming. I was definitely not prodigy-level like her daughter, but my parents could never wrap their heads around the fact that I could be smart and yet struggle with certain schoolwork (and other aspects of life). Would have been nice to have someone in my life who was understanding and supportive like that when I was grappling with all that stuff.
my parents could never wrap their heads around the fact that I could be smart and yet struggle with certain schoolwork (and other aspects of life)
hahaha glad nothing like that ever happened to me
Raise your hand if you were described as “bright and promising” in early school years and “wasted potential” by your early twenties. Bonus if you were also told your favorite interests were a waste of time.
Through herculean effort by those around me (my main stat in life is luck) I found the wherewithal to fight the urge to burn out and applied myself to my studies (went from failing grades as a high school freshman to all As in grad school), got into BJJ, and tried very hard to box check a bunch of things that make you look successful.
I can confidently say that if you have a favorite interest you should hold onto it and cherish it like every person you enjoy having in your life. Say goodbye if it's time, but while it's there enriching your experience it's more important than any success could be. Not everything is meant for everybody and I'm coming to the conclusion that simply following what enriches you and never comparing is the best you can do. May the lessons you need come to you and may your joy be genuine.
Thanks comrade. Glad you made it out OK. I wish someone that I looked up to had been there to say it 25 years ago. Though my partner and I are living childfree, I hope to spread that sort of influence to the youngins in our family.
you can walk it back! it's not a cliff's edge, you can start to enjoy things again
i dropped out of grad school after 5 years. 9 out of 10 times, anything to do with "gifted children" is that they're autistic children that have school as a special interest
Love to avoid my homework because of anxiety and then get punished for it so the anxiety spirals and then show up to school without homework, get punished again, show up back home with bad grades and get punished yet again.
Do ya"ll actually have anything to go on or is this still just the "actually atheism is bad because some reactionaries a decade ago were shitheads" thing that's been going around here?
Because when half the country is in the grip of a theocratic, genocidal Christian Fascist regime this "dae le redditor le atehism bad" shit is getting old. The exact thing atheists in the 00s were afraid of happened. Mocking atheists for being afraid of Christian fascist theocracy when we're dealing with actual christian fascist theocracy is tired and neither clever nor helpful.
And yes, actually using the fucking pasta collander to highlight how religious beliefs are given discriminatory legal and social privileges in society is funny. It highlights the absurdity of the practice and harms no one. And it's a meme from like 15 years ago.
Hot take: when facing down a Christian fascist theocracy doing the "DAE le all religions bad" thing and predominantly attacking Muslims and Jews is just carrying water for that Christian fascist theocracy. That was a huge problem with the New Atheist community, especially on Reddit, and it's still a problem with the remaining Reddit Atheist types who haven't just been entirely coopted back into the Christofascist movement. Yes, criticizing all atheists because Redditors are cringe is bad. By that same metric, criticizing all religious people because Christians are cringe is also bad. Jews and Muslims are under attack in the west in a big way. Atheists are similarly under attack in many predominantly Christian global south countries due to the long shadow of imperialism.
There isn't anything to be gained from attacking these people who need our support, we need to focus on the big problem instead of attacking the people who are being victimised by the big problem.
Having said that, yea the colander hat trend was really funny. Also a big fan of The Satanic Temple.
I don't really think this post is a criticism of atheists though, more just a criticism of how Reddit dudes will find a couple of things they find relatable about a woman and then entirely objectify her based on those couple of things.
Also a big fan of The Satanic Temple.
"Redditors aren't all bad, by the way I am a libertarian individualist (neoliberal) who loves Ayn Rand"
That's the Church of Satan. The Satanic Temple are activists that troll Christians and file lawsuits to use theocratic laws to undermine said theocratic laws. It's still doing the lib "aha, I have exposed you as a hypocrite therefore I win!" shit with the caveat that there are enough libs in the legal system that didn't get the memo that they could just be hypocrites and selectively enforce the law cynically, so it actually works sometimes.
Not commenting on the effectiveness of their strategy, I just think they're really funny.
i wouldn't read too much into this, we just hate redditors, and this falls into the pattern of typically male redditors wanting women they imagine are nerdy and compatible with them interpersonally to objectify so that they can project a parasocial relationship onto them.
I mean I think the issue is most atheists aren't communists and indeed, skew more towards le enlightened and euphoric techbro. Not to say they aren't as immediate a threat as the christian fascists, but they're just as worthy of bullying because they're not moving towards socialism in most cases.
It is also, I think, important to remember that a lot of the internet atheism attitude is used as chaff for imperialism abroad. This was especially true of early 00s atheism (see the
here). But I think there's still plenty of this residue, and it's not like I see internet atheists clambering out of the woodwork to defend our trans comrades 
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porn star
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mensa
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atheist
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goofy photo
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owning the libs with facts and logic
Its all there, folks.
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is Mensa bad? it's always sounded like an iq-adjacent eugenics organization but i never actually checked to confirm that
I mean they're not really doin anything with their supposed intelligence. If anything it's the perfect con: get people who believe they're smart to give you money to show how smart they are.
yes, at the very least for giving credence to normies that IQ measures something meaningful beyond
style eugenics
