• etherphon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I just never considered it, things used to be so much more black and white, to put it bluntly you were normal or retarded basically, so you had so many kids who thought they were just weird/dumb/lazy/unambitious or worse, myself included. I’m so glad things have got so much better though there’s still a long way to go.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah I was high performing, best test taker in our graduating class, highest act score, one of the lowest gpas… I got called lazy a lot. But that never made sense to me because I was incredibly passionate about things and would toil away for weeks on some project, but you couldn’t make me care about homework, you couldn’t make me listen to a lecture, you couldn’t stop me from sleeping in class, and neither could I. It did make me feel very different from my peers.