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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.
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Iconic
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Hey.
Hi there school survival forum members 
I've been lurking around here for a month or so, but i just got an account, so I though I should introduce myself.
I'm 14, and a freshman in high school.
I came to school survival by searching something like "i hate school"
Anyways, I pretty much agree with everything on this website and i've printed off a bunch of articles and am currently passing them around with my friends.
I have a history of doing insanely well in school, i had a 98 average through middle school and a 96 average this year. My parents are insane about my grades. If i got so much as a B, they would freak, probably ground me, and take away my computer, so i have pretty much no options other than doing really well in school. 
My dad wants me to follow his career path to becoming a doctor, which I don't want to do. I want to do something different with my life.
Anyway, just thought i should introduce myself.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Ceiling Cat
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Re: Hey.
Welcome.
Grow a pair, and stop being their little bitch. It sure will take some grounding, and a few years of war but you need to let them know you don't want to take that path.
Since you're overachieving, you may have better luck asking them to let you get schooled online or anything similiar.
Problem, officer?
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Re: Hey.
Are you Asian? I'm South Indian.
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Iconic
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Re: Hey.
Ceiling Cat, you're probably right. They won't let me get schooled online, because they say I need to go to school to develop social skills. 
I've asked continually in the past. I'm gonna keep trying to get them to let me go. As for overacheiving, I don't study for tests and generally do everything pretty half-assed, yet I get good marks. That's my point of view though, I probably try way too hard. The only thing that I do that could be viewed as overachieving is that I actually do all my homework (usually copying off a friend).
And denied, I'm caucasian.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Re: Hey.
Fuck, you just ratted out the Asian philosophy. Cheat, and we kick ass. You sure you didn't get plastic surgery?
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Iconic Wrote:Ceiling Cat, you're probably right. They won't let me get schooled online, because they say I need to go to school to develop social skills.
I've asked continually in the past. I'm gonna keep trying to get them to let me go.
If you ask too often, they'll get used to it and say no every time without even thinking.
My parents let me take online classes when I refused to go to school anymore, but even though it worked I felt like a little kid throwing a tantrum. And it probably wouldn't work a lot of the time, so that's probably not really the best way to go about it.
I don't know your parents, so this may or may not work, but you should generally have everything planned out beforehand, up to possibly getting into college. (It's fine if you actually don't intend to go, but your parents will probably take it better if you at least could go.) I realize it doesn't seem to make any sense to make plans before you get permission, but it should make your parents more likely to agree. Depending on what your parents are like, you might also pretend like you're asking as a formality and that you already assume they're going to say yes. Then if they say no, they'll feel like assholes for refusing what you're presenting as a perfectly reasonable and uncontentious thing. On the other hand, depending on their personalities, they might get pissed at you for "disrespecting their authority" or something.
Also, online classes sort of suck unless your only problem with school is the people there.
"Do we treat straight public sex differently than we do gay public sex? Of course. Straight people are so proud of their public sex that they named a cocktail after it."
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Re: Hey.
Yeah, the people at my school aren't the problem (unless you mean teachers, etc.), I have lots of good friends there and stuff.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Wow, you're gonna fit right in - first thread and you got mildly insulted already. Nice to have you on SS - if you ignore... well, most of us, actually, it's a very nice place. Nice backgrounds...
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Some good dramalama occasionally, I suppose. Too bad you weren't around for Justin or the purge.
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I don't really see anything wrong with getting good grades. It typically gets you more respect and if you ever do want to go to college or whatever it helps. I mean, if getting good grades gets in the way of other things you want to accomplish, then yes it is a problem. If you just naturally get good grades, I don't see a reason to start flunking on purpose. Besides, being anti-school and getting good grades at the same time will probably help out when trying to convince others of the downfalls of the education system.
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Greeting to thee; well hast thou come; from that mortal world hast thou come to this pure, bright place.
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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Good fortune follows upon disaster;
Disaster lurks within good fortune;
Who can say how things will end?
Perhaps there is no end.
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Faby Wrote:Greeting to thee; well hast thou come; from that moral world hast thou come to this evil, corrupted shithole.
Fix'd.
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Re: Hey.
Isn't that what I just said? Except the shithole part. This forum is awesome.
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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Good fortune follows upon disaster;
Disaster lurks within good fortune;
Who can say how things will end?
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Meh. It's funny, I guess.
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Hihiiiii! I'm Moriko, call me Moriko!
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Re: Hey.
MorikoMisa Wrote:Hihiiiii! I'm Moriko, call me Moriko!
Or Sexy, she likes that too. *runs and hides*
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AWOL Wrote:MorikoMisa Wrote:Hihiiiii! I'm Moriko, call me Moriko!
Or Sexy, she likes that too. *runs, but it too slow and gets a book to the face*
Fix'd. But anyways, I lol'd.
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Yay, free book!
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*Book reads 'How to spot a pedo' across the front* i thought it was best you learn what to avoid as not to cause suspicion.
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But I already know how to spot pedos!
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*Laughs* I should have known. *Throws some manga instead*
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*Intercepts and catches*
*hops into un-hittable un-chasable Awesome Cycle*
*looks at manga and sees a hentai title*
*throws it back to AWOL*
*rides off to boil eyes*
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*starts fapping to hentai*
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*Waves to Rai*
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Re: Hey.
These people are posting random shit on your thread to gain postcount.
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Denied Wrote:These people are posting random shit on your thread to gain postcount.
Thanks, i was getting confused
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Captain Obvious Wrote:These people are posting random shit on your thread to gain postcount.
No shit.
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