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To Never Belong
Nearly a decade later, I haven’t been able to process high school.
These days I’ve seen several families move towards home-schooling their children — -and I couldn’t agree more.
There might be issues with socialization, considering it’s a smaller dynamic. However, I find that to be one of the less alarming issues on that list.
I grew up very isolated, and high school was where I never belonged. I always sat alone, ate alone, and did everything alone.
Students used to wonder why that was — it was more or less because of the fact that I was far more experienced for my age and they thought that I wasn’t present in front of them — -but it was the parents they were trying to flee from.
They didn’t like my mature outlook in any way, but aside from my characteristics — I often noticed they lacked basic maturity and acceptance.
They were supercritical and quick to point out what was wrong in the other rather than themselves.
I would have been one of the kindest friends they had — and still got shit for it. They also came from families with many hard biases they operated from (i.e. Pakistanis who weren’t tolerant of Indians, fitting in with the white popular group, wealth bias, and how Indians were supposed to be the smartest —…
