Context Matters: Are You A Piece Of Cardboard Being Compared to Metal?
a poem and a writing prompt
Though appearing flimsy, not metal, not wood, the strength comes from structures within.
Though crackable under enough wet, you must contextualize, given only paper as source material, resulting in strength is itself a feat.
I may be talking about cardboard, or I may be talking about those who started with nothing, yet are expected to perform like metal, like wood, given paper,
not meeting some sort of arbitrary threshold, and told that they’re less than, without understanding just how far they’ve come in the first place.
#WritingPrompt: Cardboard / corrugated
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Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and I think about this a lot sometimes, where there are so-called “objective metrics” for things that don’t take into account the journey and effort to achieve what looks the same to someone else. A child with ADHD may have expended all of their effort in order to sit through that three-hour segment of class and be so tired when they get home that all they want to do is lie down. Yet outwardly, they may look and sound as if they are “simply” meeting expectations just like any other student, and only punished if they crack under the pressure and aren’t able to meet these expectations. We may all start with different strengths and weaknesses and environmental supports but are expected to churn out the same outcomes sometimes. 📚📚 PS, I published a book of tiny poems!
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