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Common Doesn’t Mean Normal
I hear some version of “that’s just how it works” all the time.
Schools. State agencies. Child welfare systems. Different people, different organizations, different situations, but somehow the same explanation keeps showing up.
And lately I’ve been thinking about how easy it is to confuse something happening all the time with that thing actually being normal.
In this episode, I’m talking about the dysfunction we get used to seeing, the parents who start apologizing for asking questions, the kids stuck waiting while adults figure out whose responsibility something is, and why seeing the same…
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