I'm in 10th grade now, and over the past 3 or 4 years, I've had three choices. I could act normal, I could be normal, or I could leave. Since I couldn't become "normal", and I couldn't leave, I've had to adopt a sort of second life. With friends, I act like I don't care that much about computers or technology. However, on my own I spend almost 90% of my free time in front of my computer. I've adopted this second life so well that my parents can't tell the difference. They think I act the same at home and school, and they have no idea that it is absolute hell for me to get up in the mornings and go. If the killers were like this as well, it's no surprise that their parents didn't catch anything. Everyone (parents, administrators, and everyone else) needs to pay more attention to kids' lives, and they might be able to prevent something like this from happeneing. It's not the games faults, it is the parents, teachers, and peers.
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I'm in 10th grade now, and over the past 3 or 4 years, I've had three choices. I could act normal, I could be normal, or I could leave. Since I couldn't become "normal", and I couldn't leave, I've had to adopt a sort of second life. With friends, I act like I don't care that much about computers or technology. However, on my own I spend almost 90% of my free time in front of my computer. I've adopted this second life so well that my parents can't tell the difference. They think I act the same at home and school, and they have no idea that it is absolute hell for me to get up in the mornings and go. If the killers were like this as well, it's no surprise that their parents didn't catch anything. Everyone (parents, administrators, and everyone else) needs to pay more attention to kids' lives, and they might be able to prevent something like this from happeneing. It's not the games faults, it is the parents, teachers, and peers.