• The Picard ManeuverOP
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      592 years ago

      Yeah, it’s all relative. It’s just incredible how your perspective can change in your lifetime.

      • deweydecibel
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        2 years ago

        I had an absolutely terrible time in my small underfunded high school due to chronic illness, family tragedy, coming from a poor home, and just generally not having that many friends. I got picked on, I struggled intensely with untreated ADHD and depression, and was just all together miserable.

        But to spite all that, I completely understand what people mean when they say they miss that period of their life, and I’d never seek to make them think they’re wrong for feeling that. There’s a weird defensiveness about this topic where people seem to feel anyone else having any sort of positive association with that period of time somehow invalidates their own hardships.

        High School is not a good or bad thing. It’s just a thing. An experience that was different for everyone. It’s okay to leave it at that.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        Is that why I can’t cry anymore, I’ve seen the worst and experienced the worst? I mean that makes some sense after reading that.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          I feel this way even though I’m doing alright nowadays. I think past a point of environmental or social stress, it takes away the ability to express certain feelings.

          I don’t have strong emotions anymore but nothing is particularly painful either. That was not the case for me in high school, dealing with particularly bad depression.

          • @[email protected]
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            82 years ago

            I feel you there, I was told I was gonna die in my 20’s due to an aneurysm from an inoperable mass in my brain.

            Got an experimental surgery, which technically failed… yet, here I still am alive lol. My neurologists don’t really know what to say decades later, so short of having a huge luck stat, I might be unkillable? 😂

            And honestly, I would’ve rather go out in better shape, not achy af like I am now. 🥴

    • @[email protected]
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      152 years ago

      This 100%.

      Sure, a kids worst day of their life is probably still a better day than the worst day of an adults life. But it is still the worst day of their life and they are entitled to feel like so.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 years ago

      I fucking hated school. I remember my freshman math teacher would give us packets with work for each day of the week. I would finish my folder of work either Monday or Tuesday and would just sleep. I had an A in that class for my work and my tests.

      I failed that class because “participation is half your grade” Get fucked, cunt.

      • veroxii
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        32 years ago

        The good teachers teach because they love it and want to make a positive difference.

        But a large percentage teach because they are miserable cunts who couldn’t work anywhere else because adults wouldn’t tolerate their bullshit.