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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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My introduction
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My introduction

Hi. I would like to introduce myself. I don't really know what to say. I am 14 years old. I live in South Africa. I live with my grandmother, she is probably the only person in my life who encourages me. I have lived with her ever since I was 18 months old, that was when my parents got divorced. I rarely saw my mother after that, I know almost nothing about her besides how she looks. She moved to Australia when I was 9. We haven't seen each other since then. My father visited me, but lately I've stopped caring about him because of his unrealistically high expectations for me in school. I hate school because of how much pressure he puts on me to do well.

I like learning about all kinds of things especially languages (I speak French, Esperanto and Afrikaans at a basic conversational level, I'm currently focusing on improving them. My dad seems to think that learning languages is a waste of time, actually he thinks everything besides school is a waste of time.) I spend a lot of time reading books and stuff I find on the internet. I like rap music that talks about problems, such as Eminem, Tupac and Wu Tang Clan I also like metal, especially Rammstein.

I would really like to one day move to somewhere in western Europe, because I really, really hate living in South Africa.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.
(This post was last modified: 07-19-2013 03:29 AM by Professeur.)
07-19-2013 03:27 AM
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My introduction - Professeur - 07-19-2013 03:27 AM
RE: My introduction - no - 07-19-2013, 04:06 AM
My introduction - SoulRiser - 07-19-2013, 09:52 AM
My introduction - Alistoriv - 07-19-2013, 02:54 PM
My introduction - brainiac3397 - 07-19-2013, 03:31 PM
RE: My introduction - TheCancer - 07-19-2013, 08:36 PM
RE: My introduction - Professeur - 07-19-2013, 10:13 PM
RE: My introduction - Thade_Chan - 07-20-2013, 10:57 PM
RE: My introduction - TheCancer - 07-19-2013, 10:36 PM
RE: My introduction - SoulRiser - 07-20-2013, 07:50 AM
My introduction - Professeur - 07-21-2013, 02:28 AM
RE: My introduction - Thade_Chan - 07-21-2013, 11:57 AM
My introduction - brainiac3397 - 07-21-2013, 04:52 PM
My introduction - Professeur - 07-21-2013, 05:10 PM
RE: My introduction - Thade_Chan - 07-21-2013, 11:26 PM
My introduction - Professeur - 07-22-2013, 04:37 AM
RE: My introduction - Thade_Chan - 07-22-2013, 05:12 AM
My introduction - brainiac3397 - 07-22-2013, 03:16 PM

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