#no actually

Alright who allowed Jotaro to smile like that, in the new official art. Also Josuke’s and Joseph’s smile is the same, love that for them.

I finally figured out what’s so important about my favorite line in the Lightning Thief musical. It’s near the end of “Bring on the Monsters,” at the end of the musical, when he says, “I’ll be back next summer, you’ll see me again, I’ll be back next summer, I’ll survive til then.”

He’s not talking about the actual literal monsters, you know?

This is a kid with ADHD and dyslexia who’s been kicked out of school after school. Anyone who knows anything about what it’s like to be a neurodivergent kid in school knows that Percy must have dreaded the end of every single summer up til now.

I was so thrown off when I graduated college, because for the first time that I could remember, I didn’t experience the onset of severe depression that autumn. Because I wasn’t in school!! It was 2020, and graduating as a new nurse into a fucking pandemic caused less mental and emotional distress than the prospect of starting another school year as a neurodivergent student!!!

THAT is how much school sucks for neurodivergent people.

Hell. Kids with ADHD have a higher risk of suicide and I think a TON of it has to do with school issues, whether it’s academic or social (isolation, bullying etc).

Going to Camp Half-Blood, making/deepening real friendships, and finding out he was a demigod made such a huge difference for Percy that he could face another school year calmly and confidently for the first time. “Bring on the real world… I’ll be back next summer, I’ll survive til then.” He’s talking about surviving school as a neurodivergent kid.