• entropicshart@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      As someone who takes kids to speech therapists, it is not the same. Casual conversation is critical to help correct speech impediments, that practice with a therapist alone would not give.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I started working as a school bus driver a couple of years ago, and my first run was picking up a wheelchair-bound teenage girl with cerebral palsy and driving her to school. After a couple of weeks my boss called me into the office and told me that the girl’s father had called her about me. I thought I was in trouble for some reason, but my boss told me that the father had wanted to commend me just because I talked to the girl every morning like a normal person. This actually depressed me because it meant that none of the other drivers had ever talked to her for the years she’d been going to this school. It’s like the bare fucking minimum decent thing you can do for someone in a tough situation, and they couldn’t be bothered.

    Unfortunately, the run was in demand because it took so long to get to her school (I’d only been given it briefly because we had so many drivers out with COVID-19) and I was soon replaced by a more senior driver - who never acknowledged the girl’s existence, as her father related to me when I ran into him at the local farmers market.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Those 6 other escorts must be doing great if they’re refusing getting paid to have a nice dinner

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not everyone is comfortable doing everything a client asks of them. And social awkwardness can be as much of a deal breaker as anything weird you want in bed.

  • Zacryon@feddit.org
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    1 year ago

    Must be an USA thing again: got problems with your speech but can’t afford logopedic treatment? Get an escort instead!