WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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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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Re: WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gorebell Wrote:They do in fact, believe it is for our own good. Whether they're right or not is another subject entirely, but their heart is in the right place.

good intentions don't justify unlawful imprisonment, saddism, mental soddism. Just cause it might 'feel right' doesn't mean it is.

Quote:Do you honestly think they sit in their offices cackling evilly and wondering how to make our lives more miserable?

sometimes i wonder.

SoulRiser Wrote:I think it varies. Some teachers really do care and really do believe that what they're doing is for the best, others just don't care at all either way or they just do what they do because it's their job, and you do get some evil sadistic ones that enjoy causing pain. In my case, I think most of them were the middle group, a reasonable amount of the first group, and one or two sadistic ones. I had the sadistic ones for grade 1 and grade 3. The grade 1 bitch eventually got fired, luckily. The grade 3 one didn't cause enough physical injury or bleeding to get fired, though. There was one other teacher that had a few sadistic tendencies occasionally, but he was tame compared to those other 2.

very true, there are deffinately a few great teachers.

and then there are those who make every attempt to make you fail if you think a little differently than they do.

Summer School would suck. you might have to play their game for a while to get your Grades looking good, otherwise your out of luck. Sometimes you just gotta do what they say :( (just be sure to let them know you hate every second of it).

I believe strongly in finishing what i

one of the most interesting differences between school and prison, is that prior entering the second, you are read your rights. The less you know the better.

'Why is it that every time you open your mouth, you say something to annoy me?'
'With all do respect sir, i could ask you the same question.'

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