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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.

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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.

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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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Day of Silence
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Day of Silence

Apparently, you could not 'participate' unless you registered to. We had two weeks. I was going to join, but I forgot about the registry at school.
Anyway, I asked the teacher in charge and she said I had two weeks to register and I couldn't. I couldn't get a thing for my shirt or anything.
I'm still doing it, because it is a national thing, just not for my school.
So if somebody wants to do it without registering at school, they should be able to and I am doing so.
Opinions?

04-20-2013 04:30 AM
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You should do it even if you can't register.
04-20-2013 04:33 AM
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