Was talking about home economics as a school subject in another thread and i realised that for me personally, taking “Food Tech” (cookery gcse) would have impacted me pretty negatively, even though generally speaking GCSEs don’t have much of an effect on the rest of your life or education.
So i wonder if anyone else has similar revelations? My post title is also phrased more openly than that, so it doesn’t have to be school specific, but i am mainly interested in things from the teenage time period.
Another choice i made in HS, for instance: i remember being really glad to have a medium-size group of friends in high school, but in retrospect they were terrible people and i realise that there would have been huge benefits to spending more time alone and in the library - yes, i genuinely look back and wish i studied more, lol. Something which I'm always told never happens.
This one “affects me as an adult” because i ended up entering adulthood with several friends determined to force their personality to be cool, relying on manosphere influencers to determine how they should behave; a lot of these people i didn’t want to know in the first place.
I don’t think getting bullied is a choice. I was bullied for a while until I started wresting, then I beat the shit out of three kids and the same time who continued to try to and no one said a negative word to me again.
Ended up becoming a SpEd teacher for behavior disorder, autism, and emotionally disturbed kids. I know it’s not easy, but you have to just not give a shit about what other people think besides your support group. Like close friends, family, ect. Everyone just wants to tear you down because they’re unhappy so fuck them and their opinions.