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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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I was born on January 13th, 1994, to a modest family living in the Chicagoland area. I quickly learned to talk and walk, the former occurring at the age of 1 and the latter at the age of 2 (give or take a few months) At the age of 3, I was enrolled in the Gertrude B. Nielsen preschool, which was, as I recall, really great and nothing like a school at all. At the age of 3, we moved out of our small townhome and into a bigger house in Deerfield, shortly after my father received a promotion. At the age of 5, I was enrolled in Deerfield's South Park Elementary School. Up until 9, I stayed there, until I moved a bit more north, to a more prosperous community that had a better school system (I wouldn't appreciate their schools until high school; I'll explain why later) - we discovered that the school newspaper was being used to slander George Bush around the time of the 2000 election. Kids were being told that George Bush hates black and Jewish people, and that George Bush would, basically, screw over the world (but in different words). I was enrolled in a different elementary school.
Later, I went on to middle school, which was essentially a living hell. Nothing more needs to be said.
And now here I am in high school. The school just underwent its 5th or 6th remodeling, and with the addition of the commons, a new contemporary 2-story library that doesn't ban books, and a new cafeteria, as well as new classrooms, computer labs, technology, and furniture, the place looks like a mall. Plus, the teachers are way better than in elementary and middle school - they're actually motivated and enjoy teaching! Plus there's no bullshit health code like there was in middle school. And we're allowed to say what we want, which was kind of hard getting used to after 14 years of only being allowed to say what other people want me to.
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
I was born on January 13th, 1994, to a modest family living in the Chicagoland area. I quickly learned to talk and walk, the former occurring at the age of 1 and the latter at the age of 2 (give or take a few months) At the age of 3, I was enrolled in the Gertrude B. Nielsen preschool, which was, as I recall, really great and nothing like a school at all. At the age of 3, we moved out of our small townhome and into a bigger house in Deerfield, shortly after my father received a promotion. At the age of 5, I was enrolled in Deerfield's South Park Elementary School. Up until 9, I stayed there, until I moved a bit more north, to a more prosperous community that had a better school system (I wouldn't appreciate their schools until high school; I'll explain why later) - we discovered that the school newspaper was being used to slander George Bush around the time of the 2000 election. Kids were being told that George Bush hates black and Jewish people, and that George Bush would, basically, screw over the world (but in different words). I was enrolled in a different elementary school.
Later, I went on to middle school, which was essentially a living hell. Nothing more needs to be said.
And now here I am in high school. The school just underwent its 5th or 6th remodeling, and with the addition of the commons, a new contemporary 2-story library that doesn't ban books, and a new cafeteria, as well as new classrooms, computer labs, technology, and furniture, the place looks like a mall. Plus, the teachers are way better than in elementary and middle school - they're actually motivated and enjoy teaching! Plus there's no bullshit health code like there was in middle school. And we're allowed to say what we want, which was kind of hard getting used to after 14 years of only being allowed to say what other people want me to.
And that is my life story.
NOT ONLY WAS IT BORING AS HELL, IT WAS ALSO COMPLETLY USELESS!
Hidden stuff:
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
I was born on January 13th, 1994, to a modest family living in the Chicagoland area. I quickly learned to talk and walk, the former occurring at the age of 1 and the latter at the age of 2 (give or take a few months) At the age of 3, I was enrolled in the Gertrude B. Nielsen preschool, which was, as I recall, really great and nothing like a school at all. At the age of 3, we moved out of our small townhome and into a bigger house in Deerfield, shortly after my father received a promotion. At the age of 5, I was enrolled in Deerfield's South Park Elementary School. Up until 9, I stayed there, until I moved a bit more north, to a more prosperous community that had a better school system (I wouldn't appreciate their schools until high school; I'll explain why later) - we discovered that the school newspaper was being used to slander George Bush around the time of the 2000 election. Kids were being told that George Bush hates black and Jewish people, and that George Bush would, basically, screw over the world (but in different words). I was enrolled in a different elementary school.
Later, I went on to middle school, which was essentially a living hell. Nothing more needs to be said.
And now here I am in high school. The school just underwent its 5th or 6th remodeling, and with the addition of the commons, a new contemporary 2-story library that doesn't ban books, and a new cafeteria, as well as new classrooms, computer labs, technology, and furniture, the place looks like a mall. Plus, the teachers are way better than in elementary and middle school - they're actually motivated and enjoy teaching! Plus there's no bullshit health code like there was in middle school. And we're allowed to say what we want, which was kind of hard getting used to after 14 years of only being allowed to say what other people want me to.
And that is my life story.
NOT ONLY WAS IT BORING AS HELL, IT WAS ALSO COMPLETLY USELESS!
I was born on January 13th, 1994, to a modest family living in the Chicagoland area. I quickly learned to talk and walk, the former occurring at the age of 1 and the latter at the age of 2 (give or take a few months) At the age of 3, I was enrolled in the Gertrude B. Nielsen preschool, which was, as I recall, really great and nothing like a school at all. At the age of 3, we moved out of our small townhome and into a bigger house in Deerfield, shortly after my father received a promotion. At the age of 5, I was enrolled in Deerfield's South Park Elementary School. Up until 9, I stayed there, until I moved a bit more north, to a more prosperous community that had a better school system (I wouldn't appreciate their schools until high school; I'll explain why later) - we discovered that the school newspaper was being used to slander George Bush around the time of the 2000 election. Kids were being told that George Bush hates black and Jewish people, and that George Bush would, basically, screw over the world (but in different words). I was enrolled in a different elementary school.
Later, I went on to middle school, which was essentially a living hell. Nothing more needs to be said.
And now here I am in high school. The school just underwent its 5th or 6th remodeling, and with the addition of the commons, a new contemporary 2-story library that doesn't ban books, and a new cafeteria, as well as new classrooms, computer labs, technology, and furniture, the place looks like a mall. Plus, the teachers are way better than in elementary and middle school - they're actually motivated and enjoy teaching! Plus there's no bullshit health code like there was in middle school. And we're allowed to say what we want, which was kind of hard getting used to after 14 years of only being allowed to say what other people want me to.
TRARSH IS A CRAB ABUSING FAGGOT, SHOVE A STICK UP UR COCKHOLE AND DIE!
Hidden stuff:
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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