danpascooch said:
Jaeriko said:
nobodies opinion of me matters except my own
First off, let me say that is a bad lesson to learn, it's important to care about what other people think of you to some degree, it's that motivation that keeps us from being complete assholes who never shower, and spit on the floor.
Secondly, you left out the reason everyone treated you like crap, teachers aren't going to go out of their way to lie to get you into trouble unless the have a reason. It may happen once, but not as much as you're describing. The reason they have might not be a good one, but the fact that you're not telling us what that reason is makes me think it might be something that paints you in a negative light.
Firstly, I'd like to point out that that's not the whole quote,nor the point. That point being that I won't allow people with baseless negativity to bother me. While I won't go as far to say I ignore it, I will not allow it to hurt me or damage my self-respect if I believe it was intended to hurt me. Essentially, it's "S, ticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me" taken to heart. I may have not conveyed my point well enough for you to understand this, and I apologize for that, but I am critical of myself and I won't simply disregard something says about me if I believe that they are correct.
Secondly, I'll admit that it's hard to believe that I would receive such abuse for no reason and that my story seems unbelievable. It is, nonetheless, true. The only thing I left out was that I have ADHD (Irrelevant, really, considering I was no worse than anyone else in terms of behavior when the treatment started). It was no excuse for the way I was treated as I was on medication for it at the time and I was no worse than my peers in terms of attention span or academic achievement. In fact, I behaved better than some. I will however admit that when I received the unfair punishments (AFTER receiving them, not before), I was often angry and sarcastic towards the one that issued the punishment. You are essentially in the same position as my mother in regards to that, she often didn't believe that I was being truthful because it just sounded so incredible. She typically contacted a 3rd party (and a 4th/5th/6th) whose story matched near exactly with mine.
I won't say that I never caused trouble, because I did. However, I only became a trouble maker because I was being blamed anyway and through that I gained a complete disdain for my teachers.....most of them anyway, my grade 7/8 home-room teachers were rather understanding so I did not give them trouble. I dropped that lack of respect when I reached high school and was no longer being targeted, and since have not gotten in trouble (Besides an action of self-defence during a fight that I did not start. That was later solved by police through video evidence and I received no punishment)
Wooooooah....that was long winded. I hope you actually read through all that but I understand if you don't. Feel free to PM if you have more questions or need something clarified.
