Name: Walter

Social Justice Group: Disabilities: Access to Education for Neurodiversity (A)

Date of Fieldwork: January 22, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Shannon M. Bennett

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

I listened to a podcast where Shannon M. Bennet was being interviewed these are the most interesting notes/facts I learned from it
In 2021 42% of HS students reported feeling persistent feelings of sadness. To avoid and withdraw is a sign of mental health troubles. Depression changes energy levels. Parents try to protect their children when they see their child scared. We all experience feeling in different ways. Social media link – connection between using social media and mental health issues.
Whatever is important to you, you will always see someone doing it better or differently than you and then you feel bad about yourself. Passive scrolling can be a way to avoid and also when passive scrolling you see those people doing things you like better than you do. People say things online that they wouldn’t say in person.
Climate change can also affect people’s lives because knowing our planet is in peril is hard. We can’t predict what our generation will go through trying to undo the wrongs of the past. How to talk to others with Self Harm and Suicide parental point of view – talk to mental health doctor, going to ER treating it like the emergency it is.
Early 20s hard b/c of financial trouble and pressure to get a job.
It’s not just enough to manage symptoms, we have to get kids back on track.