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Here, you can say whatever's on your chest. There WILL BE NO JUDGMENT HERE, just a few rules and one suggestion.
1. No cussing. The Admins are good at trimming, but please give them a break and replace any bad words with various words that have no negative meaning except when used emphatically.
2. Don't tell anybody off. I don't want to see any 'Nobody cares' or stuff like that.
Suggestion: You don't have to use any anonymous name. If you feel like it, I'm not going to hold you back, but the main point of this thread is so that we can come around you and uplift you, and it's kinda hard to do if we don't know who we're doing this for.
Nihil says 'uwin'. I win what?
submitted by Rogue Wildling
(November 24, 2018 - 7:41 pm)
(November 24, 2018 - 7:41 pm)
Ok, this may not be a rant, but this really, I mean REALLY, bothers me. When people in my classes say that they have a mental illness, even if it isn’t actually diagnosed. From someone who actually suffers from a mental illness that has effected my life in so many ways, and people don’t even know the half of it, but still say that they’re depressed or something, even if they just felt sad that day.
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another thing, which is actually a rant this time, when I came out to my parents, they called it hormones. I kind of believe them, but it also just made me really mad. Like it was saying that it was just a faze.
(December 4, 2018 - 7:27 am)
Ew on both accounts. I get you.
(December 5, 2018 - 8:08 pm)
Sorry if I did the "saying you have a mental illness" thing. I didn't mean to. I hate that kind of thing too. Also, sorry about your parents' reactions to you coming out. Your identity is valid (even though that word is really overused and is starting to kind of annoy me).
(December 6, 2018 - 6:01 pm)
(December 6, 2018 - 5:04 pm)
@Admins, I've been curious about this for a while. Can you tell where a post was made from? For example: if somebody sounded like they had a serious issue, but posted anonymously, would you be able to see their IP address to know who it was? Or at least make a good guess?
Not at all. We only see what the sender types in the Name, Age, Location, and Text boxes.
Admin
(December 16, 2018 - 8:56 pm)
It was bound to happen, some girl goes off talking about crushes I’m sorry I had to be that person.
It just happens that I like, or have fallen in love with, a very close friend. I hate myself for that. They’ve gone through very rough patches and I feel like a burden to them. Now don’t get me wrong, they’ve never targeted me and said I was a bad friend or something along those lines. I honestly think that I’ve become obbsessed with them, not in a creepy way, a caring way. I way were I am willing to do anything to make them happy, I will do anything to to keep them around me. When I do upset them it feels like a big pang in the head. They know too. I have a page in my sketchbook in which I’m venting about liking them and then there a drawing of them. I’m such a creep I know. It's funny, sometimes people ask me if I’m dating them. I don’t want to say no. I don’t want to say yes, I don’t want to act disgusted. I don’t want to say I wish, I want to do whatever I can to keep it a secret but it doesn’t help that my friends are persuasive and are bad at keeping secrets.
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Thank you Roge for making this thread, I think it’s helped a lot of people.
Sorry for writing such stupid stuff.
(December 8, 2018 - 2:06 am)
Hey that's okay! All things that can be labeled as 'I don't know what to do with my life spots' are totally valid here. Now, I don't think I've ever had a crush, but what your going through does sound like a serious "problem", if you follow me. If you're that close to them and you really adore them that much, I think you should tell them! In your own time, but I think you really should.
Of course, you don't have to listen to a word I say. XP
(December 8, 2018 - 11:44 am)
Rogue, you are really cool. Thanks for the advice
(December 8, 2018 - 6:14 pm)
Aw, shucks. Thanks! You're cool too. :)
(December 8, 2018 - 7:32 pm)
@HoodedMidnight-
Maybe your crush just, feels overwhelmed. By the way your describing it, they seem like they already have a lot to deal with on their own, and they probably appreciate you trying to help. But... they may want some time to stop and think about how much stuff is happening to them at once. Maybe they’ve been stuck in their head for so long, they don’t know what to think. They maybe wish to forget about it, because they think it could ruin an amazing friendship. Maybe they’re trying. Maybe they have so many things swirling around in their head at once, they wish they could forget all of it for once. Maybe they wish to vent to someone, in person, but don’t think they could. Maybe because they don’t even understand. Maybe their trying to flush it out by entertaining themselves, but it just keeps coming back to them.
(December 9, 2018 - 8:41 pm)
I know this isn't as serious as a lot of what you guys are going through, but I feel the need to blow off some steam and rant for a minute.
Finals are coming up. I know some of you are homeschooled and might not have them in the same way, so let me just tell you, they suck.
I'm nervous about my French speaking final. We have to speak about our neighborhoods for a whole minute and talk about whether there are cafes or lots of cars or what. I don't really know how to study for it since we're not allowed to have a script or anything.
And my English final is a creative essay, an analytical essay, AND a written quiz all in one period. My grade is currently an A-, and I really want to bring myself back up to an A with the final. (Though I think I did well on our last creative essay and poetry project, so hopefully that'll help some...) My teacher is a super-harsh grader and on our last essay, the highest grade in the class was a B+, so THAT doesn't bode well.
My Geometry final! It's on everything we've covered in the past 3 months and it's in less than a week. I just don't feel like I'm ready. And my teacher is so bad at time management, we're supposed to have a double review period next week and I can already tell she's gonna blow it talking about the Pythagorean theorem or something and none of us will get anything out of it.
Plus, Biology. I have a 100 in the class and yet have no idea what is going on because my teacher can't teach and doesn't grade. I barely know what osmosis is. When did we learn about antibiotics?! Never, that's when!
Thankfully, my World Civ final isn't a formal test, but I still have to write a five-page paper analyzing how the definition of a state as formed in the pre-agricultural era effects modern-day attitudes towards immigration...
... On top of studying for Geometry, revising my English essay, practicing for French, creating a 15-minute presentation for PE (PE!! Can you believe that?!), teaching myself the Biology concepts for this year, and redoing half of my infographic on osmosis because Chrome crashed and I lost all my progress.
It's nothing I can't handle, I know, but sometimes I just... don't want to have to handle it.
(December 8, 2018 - 2:47 pm)
Ahh, Abi, I feel. I've never had to take finals before - January will be my first - but I had to go through my first midterms a month ago and THEY. SUCKED. (what do you mean I was a completely nonfunctional human being because I had to spend all my time memorizing the three chapters of vocabulary, four conjugations, and two declensions plus genders that I hadn't learned in Latin yet?)
For your French final - my advice upon looking at that would not be to try to memorize a script (unless you can memorize long things quickly, in which case, that would be the best, but if you can't, don't try to). Instead, be sure you know all the words that you'll probably need to know in your speech - not just cafe (haha that one's easy) and house and whatever else you need, but also all your prepositions and adverbs and whatnot, because I put no stress on those and then have no idea what they mean. Having the vocabulary and ad-libbing is better than not knowing the vocabulary and only half-remembering what you tried to memorize the night before. Also, maybe alot a little time to just standing up and reciting, for a minute, what you can on where you live, and do it multiple times, varying what you say every time. That way, you'll have more idea on what to do during your final, and it may be easier to make things up, too.
Geometryyy. I'm so bad at geometry. Do you know what helped me? Sitting down with my dad (who actually knows what he's doing) and doing Khan Academy. Khan Academy can be really stressful if it's for a grade, but as long as you keep in mind that it's for practice and there are no stakes, it should be fine. If there's someone who understands what you're doing and can help you out, even better.
My lit teacher is also a super harsh essay grader. Essays are 50% of our grade. We get at most 4. (I'm DYING.) I don't know what your teacher expects from your essays or how much information you have on what you'll be writing, but if you can, try to formulate a couple theses beforehand, and go through your reading and find evidence you can use to support them.
And what Alta said is also very good advice!
Good luck, don't die, and I'm sure you'll do great! <3
(December 9, 2018 - 12:57 pm)
@Abigail
Oh my goodness, I completely understand what you are going through. These next two weeks are going to be (and have been) sooooooooo crazy for me because of midterms. I'm not going to go into the long list of things that I have to do, but I understand.
Here are some things that I've found helpful whenever I have a hundred and one things to do. I'm sorry because I know that you've probably already heard stuff like this a million times, but I want to try and help.
First, make a schedule. If you allot certain time for certain things it will reduce the amount of procrastination stress. When you're done with it, physically check it off (I don't know about you but it gives me a crazy sense of satisfaction to do that).
Second, don't procrastinate. This kinda goes along with the first one, but often times stress isn't caused by all the things you have to do but by putting them off.
Third, go to the teachers that you don't understand the material in and talk to them about it. For your bio teacher, see if they can meet with you sometime and talk about the things that you need help on.
Finally, be ok with failure. I'm not gonna tell you all of the things that no one ever believes (at least I don't) that getting good grades doesn't define you and that you are more important than a number. True, your value does not decrease one bit if you don't get a good grade, but I do know that often times getting good grades is more important to me than surviving. Even then, if you don't want to do it, then don't do it. It won't be the end of the world if you don't get an A.
(December 8, 2018 - 5:22 pm)
By the way guys, I’m very strange feelings.
You know what bothers me?
The wrong use of your and you’re. Okay bye
(December 8, 2018 - 6:18 pm)
Your so right. XD XD XD I'm sorry I had to.
But yes, that is very annoying. It pained me a bit to type that on purpose.
(December 8, 2018 - 7:31 pm)