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August 2001 - June 2017

The School Survival Forums are permanently retired. If you need help with quitting school, unsupportive parents or anything else, there is a list of resources on the Help Page.

If you want to write about your experiences in school, you can write on our blog.

To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

The forums are mostly read-only and are in a maintenance/testing phase, before being permanently archived. Please use this time to get the contact details of people you'd like to keep in touch with. My contact details are here.

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  Thread: Metal.
Post: Re: Metal.

Slayer , anthrax and pantera ftw!
BlackHeartBenwa Music 164 44,079 02-03-2009, 07:28 PM
  Thread: What metal band are you? quiz
Post: Re: What metal band are you? quiz

I got Death.What metal band are you? My Results: [img]http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/quiz270outcome2.gif[/img] Death You are Death! You are one of the key inventors of modern day death metal. ...
BlackHeartBenwa Music 12 3,118 02-03-2009, 07:18 PM
  Thread: The Most Pointless Class in the School System Ever
Post: Re: The Most Pointless Class in the School System ...

For me it is college success. It is a class that tells you how to study and the layout of the school. It's required too. As if 20 somethings don't already know how to study and work their way through ...
BlackHeartBenwa School Talk 33 11,166 02-03-2009, 05:48 PM
  Thread: Fitness
Post: Re: Fitness

pushups, regular walks and no soda.
BlackHeartBenwa General Talk 21 4,122 02-03-2009, 04:42 PM
  Thread: Feeling suicidal? Read this first.
Post: Re: Feeling suicidal? These might help... (hopeful...

I admit I have tried to kill myself more than once. I agree with not commiting suicide. I really wish I knew of this site back then to help me out. I somehow kept going I don't know how but I did. I m...
BlackHeartBenwa Announcements 119 25,395 02-03-2009, 04:38 PM
  Thread: Hey dumbasses, pranks are retarded.
Post: Re: Hey dumbasses, pranks are retarded.

Pranks are only good if both parties involved are amused. It is fun to fuck with teachers but, it just makes us look like dumbasses.
BlackHeartBenwa Youth Rights 90 56,575 02-03-2009, 04:25 PM
  Thread: I'm really pissed off at my SpEd teacher right now.
Post: Re: I'm really pissed off at my SpEd teacher right...

I was in a sped ed situation and my teachers treated me like shit and didn't let me leave so I got expelled to get out. Not the smartest choice but at least I got out. No one would listen not my paren...
BlackHeartBenwa Youth Rights 11 3,452 02-03-2009, 04:23 PM
  Thread: Whatever you do, DO NOT go to alternative school
Post: Whatever you do, DO NOT go to alternative school

I went to one after I quit public school. I was there for 2 and a half years I cannot get back. It was one of those schools that you only go a few days a week and a few hours at a time with one on one...
BlackHeartBenwa Alternative Learning & Income 7 4,549 02-03-2009, 04:10 PM

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