Hi everybody!

[Pashupati]

Hi,
I'm 16 and unschooled. I have a pinscher dog.
Three days from now, I pass the épreuves anticipées du baccalauréat en candidat libre as I live in France, and next year the baccalauréat. Baccalauréat is a bit like the SAT, or the A-level. I'm passing bac S (scientific section).

I stopped school in 2009, I think, because I was in depression, and I can say I was in depression because of school. Only since this year beginning I feel better, but I still have panic attacks when I'm tired or under a lot of stress.
I first took distance learning courses, but only a year because CNED course are shitty and I have no money.
I also stopped school because, in the beginning, I wanted to go do an apprentissage, which is a kind of quick formation. They didn't want to let me because I was "too smart for that", although my grades were average damn it, so I should have gone do a bac L (litterature section of high school, sort of), also because there was more girls in bac L. So, I got even worse grades, and they wanted to send me do a CAP Secrétariat, because there were a lot of girls in these classes, and as I was a girl then it'd be easy for me! Note: they also wanted to send me do L partly because I was a girl, and the only reason there is so much girls in CAP Secrétariat is because they send all the girls there and all the boys in BEP Bâtiment, or something like that. The teacher even took my pen and formular out of my hands to strike my first choice formation and write shit about me wanting to do bac L!!! Note, too, that at the time I wanted to do a fashion-related formation, isn't that what our culture think of as "for girls"? What the hell was their reasoning?

I'm interested in youth liberation, chiropteras, watching TV and movies, programming, physical computing, torture instruments (you can't have stupid hobbies) and fashion (DIYing clothes). I also like playing a game from time to time, online games (now really rarely), retrogaming, chess, or Zombie Flux and Gloom. I just found Game & Watch and a Multi-Game in a flea market but have no button battery that would fit.
Next month I'll go to Free Software Meeting for what it is worth.
I don't know how to end presentations, anyway I wish I had knew of a website similar to School Survival when I was still in school. Most of those I knew were for parents who made the choice to homeschool their kids, and one said to me it was a bad thing if it wasn't the parents' idea.

[Faby]

I'm having my Bacalaureat exam (Romanian end-of-high-school tests) starting on the 27th. Heh.

Anyway, welcome to SS, I hope you enjoy it here =)

I've gone through a pretty huge stint of panic attacks myself, so I know where you're coming from. I really hope it'll get better for you soon.

What kind of programming language do you enjoy? PHP, C++, ...?

[Pashupati]

Thanks! And good luck on your exams.
I know a bit of C, but I'm mainly programming in Ada. I'd like to learn ASM when I've more time and am more calm (not around exams).

[UnschoolShqiponjë]

Si jeni?

Welcome Pashu... I've met you at NYRA haha

[SoulRiser]

Hello there

This site is currently hosted in France...

Quote:torture instruments (you can't have stupid hobbies)

That sounds... fun. Ever used any of 'em on someone?

[Pashupati]

UnschoolShqiponjë: yes, and I learnt about School Survival by a link you posted there! Thanks!
SoulRiser: I wonder why you made the choice to host it in France? Has it anything to do with legislation? (said I, trying to look smart)
I had the occasion to use some on a mannequin (real working strappado, breaking wheel and a rack; but they weren't from the era they were used, only reproductions.) during a fair, and to get stuck in a pillory. I'm translating words while writing that, strappado sounds more spanish. There was an animation with boot supplice, how the fuck is this plastic personnage healing himself, also a "show" of dismemberment, with another mannequin or more of a puppet, cords and plastic horses... That was a bit kitsch.
Last year I had the idea of making a sort-of electric chair using an old car battery. A "fake" one, enough to hurt but not kill or damage you too much. Well, I made some research and it seemed too complicated, plus even old car batteries are too expensive for me. I even had a consenting victim to test it, damn; don't know what I would have done had I killed him by mistake. So I dropped the idea for its dangerosity. Maybe he'll be okay for waterboarding if I ask, now that I think of it.
Uh, and I have no skill to make anything using wood. I need to work on that. On the other hand, it needs to be functional, not beautiful, but so does your car and why then do you own a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost???
What am I saying. I must say I'm really tired. (but I really think, seeing my lack of skills, it won't be too functional either.) (also, no money to buy materials.)

[UltraRobot]

Bienvenue à bord, Pashupati !

[The Desert Fox]

I said come in! Don't stand there!

[Blobthe15]

SoulRiser: I wonder why you made the choice to host it in France? Has it anything to do with legislation? (said I, trying to look smart)

Nah it's because this bitch Carla Franklin tried to take down SS because of Signatures calling her a whore so Soul had to move the server really quickly.

Anyways, Nice to meet you.