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When we assume young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities aren't going to have sex, and then we don't offer comprehensive sex education to them (which happens more often than not), our assumption makes it harder for them to lead the kind of lives they deserve. To learn more, I highly recommend reading SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change and Laura Graham Holmes, Ph.D.'s report, Comprehensive Sex Education for Youth with Disabilities A Call to Action, here: https://lnkd.in/eECG_zvp.

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Is delayed gratification good or bad? The marshmallow test is an experimental design that measures a child’s ability to delay gratification. The child is given the option of waiting a bit to get their favorite treat, or if not waiting for it, receiving a less-desired treat. The minutes or seconds a child waits measures their ability to delay gratification. The researchers followed each child for more than 40 years and over and over again, the group who waited patiently for the second marshmallow succeed in whatever capacity they were measuring. In other words, this series of experiments proved that the ability to delay gratification was critical for success in life. https://lnkd.in/e2jzZA65

in-house amplifications of shame can incline and veer, even careen people off into a lowered horizon/felt lowered status. https://lnkd.in/enNqt9RS Putting people in their place, as streaming has been the dominant categorical imperatives of norm governance. Large swathes of our knowledge is profoundly dull and lifeless, and even self-righteous moralising, and hardly surprising that shamed people pick on and adapt these purist rhetorical devices. Not good enough https://lnkd.in/enNqt9RS https://lnkd.in/e9V_zAjh