Current Events > Did you used to hate going to school?

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Still do

I liked it fine enough until I was assaulted by a teacher in 6th grade (for obvious reasons, middle school was my least favorite time). After that, I didn't like it but I felt obligated to go without a fuss because my older brothers gave my mom so much hell with school that I couldn't burden her with BS of my own. It took a lot of mental energy to get through that and by the time I graduated high school, I didn't have anything left in the tank. Without the compulsion of the state and no ability to self-regulate, college just wasn't an option. I tried it in my mid 20s and it was a disaster.

That was 10 years ago and I may give it another shot because I've grown quite a lot as a human and feel like I have the ability to do a lot better than I did.

oh you're in college or something?

I liked first, second, and eighth grades for the most part. The rest, yeah, I didn't like going there. Especially highschool, that was a terrible time

why , bullying or something?

Middle and high school sucked, all of my friends decided to conform to one normie click or the other so they stopped being my friends and I suffered both vocal and physical bullying on pretty much a daily basis.

that's pretty bad. Did you ever consider switching schools, or was there any way to stop that stuff?

I eventually started fighting back, unfortunately since I was the outcast in schooo I of course was the one that got in trouble for them. Spent a lot of time in detention.

No, except math class. I didn't learn until my late 20s I had math dyslexia. I loved lectures and classes of every subject from kindergarten to college, but math gave me anxiety attacks.

I switched schools in middle school twice when my parents got divorced and hated it ever since.

Before that I was in a lot of in and after school activities. Had a lot of friends. Then it all became a nightmare. The first day back after summer vacation was traumatizing. When I saw all the "back to school" commercials and sales in August I'm pretty sure I had panic attacks but didn't know what they were. High school was run by this garbage redneck PE teacher who was also the town mayor. He and his son were the biggest bullies in the school.

I know that pain. The longest I was ever in a a single school district I think was two grades consecutively. Between being bounced back and forth between my parents (who lived in different parts of Georgia and Alabama, about 8 hours apart)every few years, or just major moves they made, I was almost always in a new school every year, or returning to a district I was in years previously.

My school experience wasn't like most kids, I think. I basically have no childhood friends. Like, I had friends.. but like was never around long enough to develop any lasting relationships.

By tenth grade I went to live with my aunt and uncle.

I know it's supposedly worse for parents to stick together just for the kids sake but that "kids sake", depending on the age.. well, it can be complicated. There are some things that should be considered.

If they're not gonna stay in the same area and/or have the kid permanently stay with one of the parents it might actually just be better to have miserable parents that bicker than a kid that has a weird, transient life. And exposing them to the potentially horrible step parent, or step siblings. You know, barring like abuse or something.

True, but damn. I've written and deleted more messages than I've posted here over trivial topics.

My delivery driver a few weeks ago was super friendly and very attractive. She had to text me about my order. At no point after delivery did I go "Hmm. This woman I don't know, who showed no interest in me, would totally love a text from some rando."

Even moreso when you get her name from the order and look up her socials.

My parents and step parents were all in their early 30s when the divorce and remarriage went down. They were still immature. Seems like the kids were used more as weapons to get back at the other without consideration of how their decisions may affect them.

My mom took me by car to my original school in the 5th grade because it was in another district and the bus wouldn't pick me up there. Then my father or step mother (don't remember which one) turned her in, and I was forced to go to another school. A lot of bouncing around after that. Shitty years.

True, but damn. I've written and deleted more messages than I've posted here over trivial topics.

My delivery driver a few weeks ago was super friendly and very attractive. She had to text me about my order. At no point after delivery did I go "Hmm. This woman I don't know, who showed no interest in me, would totally love a text from some rando."

Even moreso when you get her name from the order and look up her socials.

Forget to switch accounts, did we?

*Fist bump*

Same, parents had us young, then used us to like barter and trade one or two for the other most of childhood. And I double struck out on step parents. Pretty sure they were both bipolar, but one was distant at best and a monster at worst, the other pretty cool or petty and cruel. Step siblings were mostly alright themselves, but I've never seen that sorta family work in a way where the kids are all actually treated equally. There is always favoritism and coldness coming from some direction. The parents, or grand parents, someone.

I fucking loved high school and never wanted to leave. Especially senior year. I was on the football team and had a very active social life. All my friends kept saying they couldn't wait to graduate. I knew better.

Are you playing a character or are you a legit "high school senior was the best of my year life" kind of guy?

No hate if you are, it wasn't for me, you just seem like a cliche trope in your explanation.

I hated waking up so early to go to school.