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August 2001 - June 2017
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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
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Teacher: "You are almost an adult. I expect you.."
To get your work done, etc. However, they don't act like we are adults.
In college, you could check your phone. The professor doesn't care, it's your money and time.
We can't speak in class, not even if we are doing the busywork.
We can't listen to music, like adults.
They want us to act like adults, yet we can't do the things that adults are 'allowed' to do.
RE: Teacher: "You are almost an adult. I expect you.."
(01-31-2014 03:10 AM)..V.. Wrote: To get your work done, etc. However, they don't act like we are adults.
In college, you could check your phone. The professor doesn't care, it's your money and time.
We can't speak in class, not even if we are doing the busywork.
We can't listen to music, like adults.
They want us to act like adults, yet we can't do the things that adults are 'allowed' to do.
The greatest irony of the school system. They even try to pass off school as "like work", or my personal favorite, "a mini-version of the real world". They try to prepare you to "become an adult" even though they suppress every human right an adult citizen will have.
School officials seem to treat students as if they lack any kind of competence. I actually think the reason many teenagers act in the stereotype way (let's be honest, we are shooting ourselves in the foot) is because of popular media norms enforced on them, but also because they're given little independence in the first place anyway. This is why I hope one day we're able to create some kind of School-Survival "network", some kind of media platform which is able to broadcast our own opinions.
Teacher: "You are almost an adult. I expect you.."
^Real work, you can quit anytime.
"When will the world listen to reason? I have a feeling it'll be a long time." --Dexter Holland
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows as government grows, liberty decreases. " --Thomas Jefferson
RE: Teacher: "You are almost an adult. I expect you.."
The miniature version of the 'Real Worldtm' is one of the terms that teachers use that angers me the most. The real world is not a world of paperwork, of orders, of structure. The real world is a world of chaos, fluctuation, life, love, death, sorrow, and every human emotion ever conceived. School propagates the lie that the real world is completely safe and structured, a solid world, a world of little boxes on the hillside. Sadly, to 98% of the world, this is completely believable. They want to live like ants, like worker drones, in their safe little world of routine. And those that do not want to live the same life every day? They are considered miscreants, for piercing a veil drawn over society's eyes. Alas, such is life.
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