salt world: stories about poop and piss

i had a good education but a horrible life through most of my schooling. high school was alright though because bullies finally left me alone and also i started to finally accept myself. i was a total overachiever though and it majorly stressed me out having my whole life be focused on school, but i can't imagine having done it any other way, and i'm happy with all that i learned and proud of what i accomplished.

elementary and middle school sucked hardcore though. i was homeschooled for a lot of elementary school, but i decided to attend public school for 5th grade. it was hard to adjust, and i had a lot of problems in my life at that time, so kids harassed me a lot-- making fun of me, calling me fat and ugly, pushing me down stairs, putting glue and staples in my hair, etc... very bad school memories. teachers and administrators in the school did nothing about it, too. they all thought i was great because i was such a good student, but they dismissed my problems with others by just telling me "kids will be kids" and that i should just ignore the bullies (as if that was really an option when i was being physically attacked). i got sick of reporting the horrible things that happened and in response only seeing my attackers getting light lectures about the importance of good behavior, after which they promised again and again that they would stop hurting me, even though they never did.

but one time i got back at a bully and it was very satisfying at the time! people used to steal stuff from my locker (which, in elementary school, had no lock), and so i bought a masterlock that i was considering putting on the locker handle. so one time i was getting my stuff out of my locker at the end of the school day, and this one kid who was always bullying me started peering into my locker and questioning me. he saw the lock i bought, which was sitting on the shelf in my locker, and he asked "why do you have that, huh? why do you need a lock? just to be different, ya weirdo? huh?" and stuff like that. just as i was taking my backpack out, he started reaching in to steal the lock, and i slammed the locker closed as i walked away. it closed on his hand, breaking two of his fingers (and assuring that he wouldn't bother me anymore). later on, when he had his hand bandaged up, he wouldn't even tell anyone what happened, probably because he didn't want others to know he got hurt ~by a GIIIRRRL~ (even though at that point in my life i told everyone i was a boy). and even if he had told on me, i'm sure the teachers (who, as i already mentioned, all loved me) wouldn't have done anything about it. having injured that one bully made others back off a bit, although it increased their gossip about me being weird and creepy.

but anyway i'm just glad all my social problems in school ended eventually and i got to enjoy aspects of school later on in life. sounds like a lot of people here had problems with isolation and harassment during school! i guess that is probably to be expected of a bunch of people who spent their school years on forums about making rpg maker games, L.O.L.....

nevermind the fact that I took things way to seriously up to the 7th grade which lead me to be prey to a lot of "bullying."

I would say the absolute worst school memory I've had was getting my ankle broken in a fight over a library book in the 5th grade which I had started.  Because I started the fight and it was on school grounds, both me and the kid I was fighting got sent to a juvenile detainment center for a week.  This was a week before spring break too.

Generally all my school memories kinda suck, no biggies stand out. I wasn't the most bullied kid there, I kept myself to myself mostly, so I didn't have super embarassing situations. It was mostly normal and just super tedious, so I hated it and just dealt with it. Looking back, I wish I'd have been more sociable and whatever, and had more courage to be myself rather than just stereotypical nerd kid. But fuck it, that was years ago now.