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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-04-28 12:09 am

[ SECRET POST #4496 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4496 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2019-04-28 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Same for me. My mother almost did when I was in middle school because of how badly I was being bullied and how shitty the school system was-- I had grown up in the Fairfax Country school system in Washington D.C. which was not only really educationally driven but also broken up into focused schools for particular studies depending on how students leaned, then moved for my dad's work to a much smaller city in Colorado. So I not only had "new kid" going against me in a school system where most of these kids had known each other since kindergarten, but because it wasn't anywhere near as academic of a system as I was used to, the fact that I could read out loud from a book with inflection and without stuttering over a word made me a target for being a "teacher's pet" type.

My mother would have been a great teacher. My dad was torn, though, because he thought I'd regret missing out on the social aspect (I did have a couple of friends, and I was in choir), so they shelved the idea. I regret that still. Any benefit I got from those trauma-bond friendships was completely negated by the horrible anxiety and self-consciousness, and the damage to my academic curiosity because I got so fucked up over the idea that being smart and trying hard was bad. I failed out of college because I couldn't get over that mental block.