16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School

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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.

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.

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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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16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School

Nice. Reminds me what I was like at the start of 6th or so; seeing that, while school pitches itself as a place of learning, very little learning goes on there.

Don't play chess with pigeons-they'll just knock over the pieces, shit on the board and strut about like they won anyway.
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Quote:May the days and months of flowing bitterness be rewarded...
To forget!?

Unforgivable!!

06-23-2016 05:12 PM

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16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School - Miller0700 - 06-22-2016, 09:34 AM

16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School - Rule_BreakerXVIII - 06-23-2016 05:12 PM

RE: 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School - the Analogist - 06-23-2016, 06:46 PM

16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School - schoolsux - 06-23-2016, 07:14 PM

16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School - UnicornLionWolf - 06-24-2016, 04:05 PM

RE: 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School - gone - 06-24-2016, 11:20 PM

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