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[psychomitten]

My parents are ignorant as fuck.
My school is ignorant as fuck.
Everything sucks because of that.
Very little would suck in my life if I could do what I fucking want.

We are not the same person.
Do you understand?

Obviously you do not.

Comments

[herkyjerkydance]

Is there some equivalent to the Evergreen School (in Hallowell, or at least it used to be) in Portland? I feel like there should be.

Good luck with the parentals. I ended up sticking out high school because I was too directionless for self-education but I was totally miserable by the time it ended, and I also had a lot of fights about what my parents wanted to do with my life vs. what I wanted to do with it. Even now, when I'm in college (and this college is VAST improvement on my high school) sometimes I run into so many dunderheads I just want to up and quit, and it is only my hopes for library school keeping me going. I don't think you need school for a fulfilling existence - it's not like you want to quit so you can smoke pot and play video games all day, I know you do stuff like FnB and you totally seem motivated enough to educate yourself. I think parents are just paranoid about this kind of thing. Like when I moved to Portland after graduating high school, my mom was absolutely certain I would end up homeless after a few months and blow all my savings and not go to college. And shit, look at me now.

[psychomitten]

Parents think the worst of their children, mostly, I think, and it's really not fair. Being looked down on because school's no good for you and because you have new/different ideas is not okay. And the only thing they've got to say to me is "Do you think all the other kids like school!?"

No. No, I don't. But I care enough to want to do something about it and they obviously are too brainwashed into thinking they need to finish. Rrrg. I hope things work out. Thank you.