Aspies For Freedom

Who thinks high school sucks?

Everybody in the world.

We all think high school sucks/sucked.

Me too! You can't make me go!!




Because I'm fifty...

I did, so I found an alternative school!   Now I'm 18 and 7 classes away from an Associate's Degree, thanks to the wonderful education my alternative school gave me!  (I also graduated in May, at 2nd in my class)

Yeah, high school sucked.  So did primary school.  And Uni.  And work.  Life in general, really.

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Even the teachers?

High school sucked, but home sucked worse. HS was an escape to something better, such as it was.

My son is very much looking forward to HS this fall. He speaks as though it is Shangri La. Unfortunately, I expect that opinion to change once he's been there a few weeks .

We don't have 'high schools' 'round here.

Oh god, been there, and it is so awful.  As recently as last October, I remember having panic attacks on the way to school, because it was so bad, and thinking to myself, "Should I stay home?" and then breaking down completely because thinking about home was even worse.

And Alternative Schools are not magic bullets.  I go to an alternative school, and I thank my lucky stars I'm here, because here at least I'm still alive.  I've taken one class at the normal high school- and I know, without a doubt, I would have committed suicide if I'd had a full day of classes there.
Not that I didn't almost do so anyway during the worst times at this school....
Next year I'll be in 11th grade.  Then over the summer I'll be doing extra credit work so in my senior year I'll be able to relax more.  I'm spending this summer working on my Graduation Project.  

I agree; home sucked much more than high school. Granted, I had no friends; but except for a few incidents (notably, the dildo that got left on my desk for some reason), I wasn't badly bullied either--that happened mostly in middle school and before. What helped was that it was a very small private school, and I wasn't the only weird person there; we had a guy with dwarfism, a couple of mentally *** people, three or four with ADHD, an anorexic girl, and a girl with congenital heart problems, a guy who was probably an Aspie... Total school population was something like twenty people, so weird was pretty normal there. Also, I didn't want to make friends (except with the Aspie guy, who had really interesting ideas involving sound waves, but it didn't work out because people would have said we were boyfriend and girlfriend, which I didn't want). If you aren't desperate to make friends, if you keep to yourself, generally you tend to get left alone. Also, I got it much worse at home, so school was a break, especially since my teacher (one of the two we had) figured I was some kind of genius and held me up to a pretty high standard, while actually removing some of the busywork. School's the one thing I've always been good at.

..Um. Not counting college. I failed a lot in college.

Yeah, I missed the bus once. My step-mother, in a drunken rage, gave me a concussion.

Things got so bad, between home and school, that I did attempt suicide. Wound up attending 11th grade in the hospital I was confined in.

See, my parents don't go in for the physical torment as much.  They prefer mental anguish.  When I missed the bus, they made me walk home, which took two hours, in the boiling heat and intense sun.  I'm not a very physical person, I don't exercise much.  By the end I was so weak I was shaking and had to rest every ten yards or so; I was dizzy; I was in sensory overload; etc.  When I arrived at home, I was met with more admonishment and yelling about how stupid it was of me to have missed the bus, and how if I felt sick it was my own damn fault; I wouldn't have had to walk if it weren't for my own stupidity, besides which, if I weren't so lazy I'd be in better shape so I would feel fine, etc.  Making it out to be MY fault.
(and I had only missed the bus one other time this year, at that point, so it's not like I'm making habit of this).

It would have been nice to have a high school inside of a high school without the trouble makers around, the ones who had to attend until they were 16.

Well I thought it was crap, much better in College mark my words.