Count to a million

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171718

 

See, I have a sort of double opinion on that. I can see the logic behind wanting parents to monitor their kids and keep them safe. But mine didn't monitor me too much. And I'm honestly glad they didn't, because the thought of what I probably would have been like if they had scares me.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

171718

You also have the schools that worsen it. No one is ever told they are wrong. Everyone is a special snowflake.

[Overdrive 5,366]

171720

 

I was teased a hell of a lot throughout school, for all sorts of things. I got into fist fights because of it, spent plenty of times suspended or in detention, as well as the principal's office. It sucks, it really does.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171721

 

I was just a really strange kid. Nobody ever really liked me or stuck around too often.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

171722

I grew up as one of the few white kids in a all latino poor neighborhood.

 

So near constant fights and suspensions.

[Overdrive 5,366]

171723

 

I was the kid that always attracted bullying, without any reason. I joke sometimes that they should have installed a revolving door on the principal's office for how many times I was in it.

Edited September 19, 2014 by Smash N Dash

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171724

 

The bullies always liked me too. Or rather liked to torment me.

 

 I didn't really understand people though. I still really don't. I was scared of the other kids, and I was scared of the adults too.

[Overdrive 5,366]

171725

 

I usually just tried to mind my own business, but if someone got in my face, they got it right back.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171726

 

I really didn't like violence in real life. So I usually didn't try to fight back. Well, until I sort of developed anger problems...

 

 Gah. I really need to vent about this stuff...

[Overdrive 5,366]

171727

 

To this day, I usually have a no nonsense demeanor with people, unless they're friends or family, or something along those lines. 

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

171728

After afghanistan I just gave up on people mostly.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171729

 

I hated my school days...

 

 To this day I don't feel very comfortable around anyone in real life. Not even my family.

Edited September 19, 2014 by PrincessBase

[Overdrive 5,366]

171730

 

I know. It feels weird that my mom knows I'm a brony. I feel awkward when she asks me about it. I hate it.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

171731

My family knows because I have pony stuffs just laying around my apartment.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171732

 

Yeah. But I just meant in general. Not just with pony stuff.

[Overdrive 5,366]

171733

 

It's still all relevant, no matter how you look at it. It's just a shame that people have to be called out just because they're different.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171734

 

Nobody has to be called out for being different. It's just that other people can't seem to help themselves.

 

 Everyone's different anyway. Just some people are better at hiding it.

[Overdrive 5,366]

171735

 

You're really helping the cause, Base.

 

Regardless, people should be respectful no matter what, instead of acting like brainless apes.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171736

 

I just think people need to start trying to be more accepting of others quirks/oddities/other strange things. I hate how people constantly get upset over things that have literally no effect on them, or hate people for things like that.

 

 I'm not perfect. I get upset over silly things, I can be a bit difficult to deal with at times, I don't always react in a manner that's easy for others to understand. But I tend to try and be nice to others and understand that the things they do that aren't harmful to me or others aren't wrong just because I might find them strange, or uncomfortable.

[Overdrive 5,366]

171737

 

That is what SHOULD happen, yet the majority of the time, it's just preaching to the choir.

[BastementSparkle 20,328]

171738

 

I have plenty of things I don't like about other people. Though admittedly most of them are just in relation to how they react to me in particular and some of my weird traits. I don't tend to get uncomfortable by most things. What makes me uncomfortable most of the time is just how others can react to me.

[Overdrive 5,366]

171739

 

Why do you think I say "I don't have anger issues, I have people problems?" I can't stand people most of the time.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

171738

Unfortunately however that behavior is never going to change, as it occurs due to base sociological survival mechanisms present in all humans.

 

 

It wasn't all that long ago that having someone act weird in your tribe could infact cause you all to starve when winter came, so it is only expected that it takes a while for society to mature, as we have only just reached the technological threshold to be safe enough to do so.

[Overdrive 5,366]

171741

 

I don't think that technological threshold is really helping. I think it's making it worse, if anything.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

171742

There are always going to be issues when trying to change the sociopolitical zeitgeist, and it's due to miss use of the new technology.

 

it will sort itself out soon enough, once we move past the rather pointless social issues and begin actually working on re-structuring our society to accommodate our passing of the technological threshold.