I know what PsychoSpunk Means by wishing he was back in high school... I feel the same way. I would love to go back to high school knowing what I knew now.. I would make it my personal goal to make the administrators lives a living hell. I think I would do everything I could to force there hand (without crossing the line) to take action against me. I would wear black, die my hair, or whatever else it took to get my point across. But this would be adding to the problem not helping it.
When I was in High school I was an outcast, I didn't fit in anywhere, until I got to know the "Freaks". I wasn't one of them, I didn't dress differently or stand out in the crowd. I was just different, I didn't fit in. Because of that I was put down, made fun of, and occasional beaten. Now when I got to know the "Freaks" I didn't fit in with them, I wasn't like them accept that I was different. They didn't put me down, beat me up or exclude me. They Welcomed me to there group and treated me like and equal.
I learned from them that there was no need to try and be like everyone else. They liked who they were and wouldn't change that for the world. Be called a "FREAK" was a compliment to them. By acting different and dressing different they made there point, "We are Individuals!" "Freaks" got me through high school, with out them I would have probably ran a way from my pain or ended my life.
If a "FREAK" means that you are proud of who you are and don't want to be like everyone else then, "I AM A FREAK, AND PROUD OF IT!".
Don't punish people that are different, Accept them and understand where they come from. Everyone who goes to high school feels upset, sad, awkward or weird at some point, but that doesn't mean that you have to hurt others to make yourself feel better (And this goes for none freaks and freaks a like).
Let's not place blame on games, parents, school officials or politics, the blame needs to be placed on all of us, Every one of us in some way or another adds to the problem, weather we know it or not. And until we all realize that the problem isn't going to get better!
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I know what PsychoSpunk Means by wishing he was back in high school... I feel the same way. I would love to go back to high school knowing what I knew now.. I would make it my personal goal to make the administrators lives a living hell. I think I would do everything I could to force there hand (without crossing the line) to take action against me. I would wear black, die my hair, or whatever else it took to get my point across. But this would be adding to the problem not helping it.
When I was in High school I was an outcast, I didn't fit in anywhere, until I got to know the "Freaks". I wasn't one of them, I didn't dress differently or stand out in the crowd. I was just different, I didn't fit in. Because of that I was put down, made fun of, and occasional beaten. Now when I got to know the "Freaks" I didn't fit in with them, I wasn't like them accept that I was different. They didn't put me down, beat me up or exclude me. They Welcomed me to there group and treated me like and equal.
I learned from them that there was no need to try and be like everyone else. They liked who they were and wouldn't change that for the world. Be called a "FREAK" was a compliment to them. By acting different and dressing different they made there point, "We are Individuals!" "Freaks" got me through high school, with out them I would have probably ran a way from my pain or ended my life.
If a "FREAK" means that you are proud of who you are and don't want to be like everyone else then, "I AM A FREAK, AND PROUD OF IT!".
Don't punish people that are different, Accept them and understand where they come from. Everyone who goes to high school feels upset, sad, awkward or weird at some point, but that doesn't mean that you have to hurt others to make yourself feel better (And this goes for none freaks and freaks a like).
Let's not place blame on games, parents, school officials or politics, the blame needs to be placed on all of us, Every one of us in some way or another adds to the problem, weather we know it or not. And until we all realize that the problem isn't going to get better!