Kinda Fucked Up That We All Coo And Sympathize With "former Gifted Kids" But Never Talk About The Students

Kinda fucked up that we all coo and sympathize with "former gifted kids" but never talk about the students who had to stay late after school or over the summer for remedial classes/clubs, who struggled to get above a C, who were given up on or punished. Who tried so hard to understand or just couldn't. Who were grouped with the "stupid kids" (a classmate called us that in remedial math btw)

Autistic kids and adhders who can't relate to their gifted peers and are constantly alienated by them. Kids who struggled in school due to dealing with a chronic or mental illness or physical/learning/developmental disability. Those of us who have had to drop out of highschool or college. Kids who worked so hard and wanted to be seen as smart, but never were. Who watched as their peers seem to fly by them in school, while they were left behind. Who were bullied and put down by those in the gifted and honors classes. Whose confidence was absolutely destroyed by education.

I love you all and I'm so sorry the school system failed you. I'm sorry you weren't properly accommodated and given the education you deserved. I'm sorry people put you down for something that they never had to fight for.

old gods are waking

YEP

Does anyone else with POTS get a really upset stomach when you’re having an episode? Also when it’s hot/too warm (probably related to episode-having)? Like it’s so fuckin embarrassing to be shitting into the nth dimension and also being on the brink of passing out, like nah I won’t call for help actually lol I will simply die in this toilet stall

But yeah is this a common experience with POTSy people?

he did it again

Well that friend and I are officially over with. She successfully got me to be the one to end it. So she doesn't feel in the wrong.

I'm over it. I'm over being on the recieving end of purposeful miscommunication. I'm done feeling like my pots and audhd are character flaws.

I'm done BEGGING to be spoken with clearly and effectively whenever there's been a tiff. I'm just done. I'm done. I wish you and your family the best. But we cannot be friends anymore.

I'm going to grieve for a while, for sure. But. It has to be done for my peace. (And clearly for yours too)

My kids are still young enough that they'll get over the loss of friendship with your kids pretty quickly. For that I am thankful.

I just want peace and respect from my future friendships to come. As I'm still hopeful there are more to come.

You're never to old to lose a friend. You're also never to old to make new ones either. Despite how it feels or seems sometimes.

We deserve this. We really do. When someone is having a mental health crisis the situation needs to be deescalated and remain calm. Scared disoriented individuals do not deserve to be taken to jail or to be shot and killed. We can have this guys, we really can.