This tweet, from a racist, encapsulates the distorted sense of Irish nationalism that fueled awful events yesterday.
Cited deaths of Ashling, Michael and Aidan as examples of foreign savagery and failed diversity.
Let's look at names he didn't mention and why they matter. /1
IT DOESN'T WORK
The death penalty doesn't deter murder. Hitting a kid doesn't help them learn. The hitting is not a natural consequence of whatever the adult deemed as "bad." It teaches them how to live in fear and avoid punishment. There is no actual learning for the child.
DENIAL AND SHAME
Many parents get away with abusing children because it is normalized. The amount of hitting that goes on in many families is a big secret. So many of my clients have revealed their history very late in the process. Denial and shame keep it buried.
IT'S ABUSE
A much-misunderstood form of trauma is the physical abuse of children. Striking a child with a hand, a belt, a ruler, a cane, a paddle, or in any way is child abuse. Let me say that again. If you hit a kid, it is child abuse.
CPTSD sets in over time when you're raised in a dysregulated, unpredictable toxic & dysfunctional environment.
The abnormal becomes normal, and the unacceptable becomes acceptable.
You normalise dysfunction.๐ง ๐ฑ
A child's brain is shaped by their environment.
A home with a frustrated, dysregulated,angry adult, the parents' storm becomes a home storm.
Their chaos becomes home chaos.๐ง ๐ฑ
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Young people from a background of Adverse Childhood Experiences,chaos, and unpredictability gravitate to each other.
They pick each other based on their adversity,it's an unconscious thing.๐ง ๐ฑ
You can read more about Adrian Doherty in Forever Young, but far more important than "my" book is HIS story. It's tragic that his life was cut short and that he wasn't to write his own story. Thinking of Jimmy, Geraldine, Gareth, Ciara and Peter today โค๏ธ #RIPdoc#adriandoherty
Niall Collins was one of seven councillors who voted to sell public land his wife had asked to buy from the council a month earlier.
Collins's wife is now in negotiations to sell the council five social housing units on the site.
https://t.co/RkGfGm16aD
Absolutely disgraceful!
"I'll split you up. I have Quran in my car to burn. I don't care about your family"
An immigrant doctor with a family of two young kids, was brutally attacked by his landlord threatened to evict his house. His and his family's life is in severe danger 1/2