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I can't understand people who shrug this off. I was driven just short of insane by boredom. Genuinely: the doodles & OCD-esque mental habits of those years remind me of the repetitive tics wild animals display when suddenly caged. Counting, carving notches, pinching myself hard.https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1144429628196417541 …
There is zero doubt in my mind that school made me an irreparably stupider person than I once had the potential to be just by depriving my brain of any kind of stimulation for most of my waking hours, most days, for more than a decade. How could it possibly be otherwise?
It would be interesting to survey schoolkids on how many of them have caused themselves physical pain (e.g. pinching, scratching, cutting) in the classroom to distract themselves from boredom. But no, I don't think even that would be a sufficient wakeup call.
My eating disorder was one of the most enjoyable aspects of my high school years. I hope some parents who need to sit with that go ahead and do so.
even if it didn't dumb you down on an ~absolute basis (tho I agree it probably did), the opportunity cost of those years is /astronomical/
let’s make Lambda but for middle/high school
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