PluMGMK wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2026 11:40 pm
< should prob record it for you guys someday!
< thinks it would be interesting.
PluMGMK wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2026 11:40 pm
You know something, <'s first 3~4 years in school were very similar to that. < thanks God < was lucky enough that <'s mother was a teacher working at the same school. She never taught <, and wouldn't have done < any favours if she had - but her presence in the staff room every day helped assure the other teachers that < wasn't in fact dumb!
< shudders to think how <'s life could have turned out if it wasn't for that...
Kinda like how < is also grateful to have grown up in the dial-up era, as
alluded to previously. < was able to entertain <'sself for hours and hours reading articles online about science and technology, with little risk of coming across dodgy images / videos, and of course there were no toxic algorithmic rabbit holes back then...
It's interesting how it can be that way. < still remembers people saying < is "stupid" when < was in later classes in primary school, only for <'s friend to say "he's not stupid, he just acts stupid". < thinks he meant to say that < is just hyper, giddy, probably even a little clumsy at times, but < knew stuff aside from this. < also remembers one morning having a maths test in 6th class. The teacher was correcting them and then tricked < by saying "who's test is this". When < said "that's mine", she said "come up here, this is absolutely awful, just look at this!", only for it to turn out that < got 100%.
< just really didn't get motivated especially in secondary school to really care, but maybe it's partially the teachers and the methods too, < just didn't feel compatible at all, and most of them were narky. Suppose that's probably likely when dealing with a bunch of adolescents. < does think it's interesting that it seemed that way for ^ though, aside from ^'s mother speaking to the other teachers. It's funny what people can think by how one looks on the surface, it's as simple as "judging a book by its cover", and it's very common.
It is true though that while < can be good at certain things, and even some hands on things regarding using tools etc., < still can come off as a bit hyper, even jumping from one thing to another like "wait this, no, that, actually maybe it's this". Same with sometimes doing the odd clumsy thing at times in terms of hurting <'s self (such as falling off the e-scooter around a year and a half ago). < just always did seem like < was a bit of an eejit on the surface though upon first glance, it just surprised a few teachers and even some classmates when < did actually focus, when they realised < can do things when < wants to. A similar thing happened where several people were trying to lift something into place and failing. < went up and fixed it on <'s own while being like "move, <'ll do it". Another case of what, he doesn't even look big, how did he do that. Suppose it just makes sense though how people think by looking at a person and some exterior behaviour, they can't know how one thinks or what they can do until they see them actually doing it.
< really does miss some stuff regarding the old internet and just the old days in general. < has even gone back to just doing crosswords in a literal book with a pencil lately. < thinks it's just too easy to get sidetracked any other way, but also it just seems like it makes more sense to <, even if it's "old fashioned".
< took a break from the community for a few weeks...
Best of luck with the retake!
