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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.

Please do not make a mirror copy of the forums in their current state - things will still change, and some people have requested to be able to edit or delete some of their personal info.


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  Thread: The Malefic Chronicles (Choose Your Own Adventure)
Post: The Malefic Chronicles (Choose Your Own Adventure)

You decide not to take the pills. Yo're old enough to take care of yourself, and you aren't about to give up your free will now that you've rediscovered it! You'll need to find a way to dispose of the...
Asphoxia Games 6 2,932 05-07-2014, 09:13 PM
  Thread: School and Individuality
Post: School and Individuality

Not only the exact same things, but in the exact same way too. I tend to try and bend the guidelines of writing assignments, and because I try to be different, my writing pieces seem to come across as...
Asphoxia School Talk 6 2,029 05-05-2014, 10:36 AM
  Thread: The Malefic Chronicles (Choose Your Own Adventure)
Post: The Malefic Chronicles (Choose Your Own Adventure)

Your name is Spectra, of course. You knew your own name, you were just repeating it to keep yourself calm. Keeping calm seems to help you not mess up. You decide to read the notes. The one on the bott...
Asphoxia Games 6 2,932 05-05-2014, 09:48 AM
  Thread: School is a living nightmare
Post: RE: School is a living nightmare

(05-05-2014 12:58 AM)G1996pw Wrote:   (05-04-2014 11:08 PM)Asphoxia Wrote:  My parents are grade-obsessed, and because I got good grades when I was younger they put me in a gifted program (...
Asphoxia School Talk 15 8,913 05-05-2014, 09:37 AM
  Thread: School is a living nightmare
Post: School is a living nightmare

My parents are grade-obsessed, and because I got good grades when I was younger they put me in a gifted program (which really isn't much more challenging to me, except that the math problems take long...
Asphoxia School Talk 15 8,913 05-04-2014, 11:08 PM
  Thread: The Malefic Chronicles (Choose Your Own Adventure)
Post: The Malefic Chronicles (Choose Your Own Adventure)

You wake up in a small white room. In it is a mirror, the bed you were just in, a bottle of blue and white capsules with a note on it, and a note pinned to the door. As you get up from the bed, you ca...
Asphoxia Games 6 2,932 04-25-2014, 10:09 PM
  Thread: Different Learning Styles
Post: Different Learning Styles

I can relate. One of the kids in my class isn't challenged enough and has a different learning style, and he responds to the oppression of having to sit still and listen to teachers by acting like an ...
Asphoxia School Talk 4 1,561 04-24-2014, 07:43 AM
  Thread: "Cartoons are for the Kiddies"
Post: RE: "Cartoons are for the Kiddies"

(04-24-2014 07:29 AM)Miab419 Wrote:  Middle schoolers try growing up so fast You can say that again... about 500 times. Everyone in my middle school thinks they're so mature, but then they argu...
Asphoxia School Talk 28 11,803 04-24-2014, 07:32 AM
  Thread: Tyranny, a dangerous weapon.
Post: Tyranny, a dangerous weapon.

The same thing's happening with me right now. Except slightly less severe. My parents just threatened to take away my computer and change the password. I responded by changing the password before they...
Asphoxia School Talk 16 4,668 04-24-2014, 07:13 AM
  Thread: Umm... Rawr...
Post: Umm... Rawr...

Thanks for all the welcoming posts! In response to the questions... - My favorite music is Vocaloid, which is synthesized artificial voices. -The tv shows I watch are Mythbusters, Doctor Who, and var...
Asphoxia Welcome! 13 2,636 04-01-2014, 11:55 PM
  Thread: Umm... Rawr...
Post: Umm... Rawr...

Yes, I like cookies, they are amazing :) For fun I usually read, write, draw, work on a fort I'm building outside, or attempt to learn computer programming.
Asphoxia Welcome! 13 2,636 04-01-2014, 03:05 AM
  Thread: Umm... Rawr...
Post: Umm... Rawr...

Hi, I'm Asphoxia, and I discovered this site a few weeks ago when I was researching... something, I forgot what it was now. I think it might have been how to survive being bored in school. And yeah. T...
Asphoxia Welcome! 13 2,636 04-01-2014, 01:20 AM

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