All these things that we just shrugged off when Obama was POTUS? No more of that.

For example, when someone tells a cop they have no right to search or question them, you are on their side even if you think they own bitcoins and were into Ron Paul.

There’s a YouTube somewhere of a guy just refusing to show isn’t at one of these and asking “Are you gonna arrest me? Ami free to go?” and after a few minutes of arguing they let him go.

Yeah, they're not as common near the Canadian border, but they're so frequent near Mexico that there are huge, permanent border check facilities on I-10 and I-5. First time I went through one was way back in 1993.

Which is it?

wow thats a really good story i dont have odd. MY story is different when i was 13 I was 5'6" had sever skin problems and braces and like at lunch there was the table order of popular kids, the other popular kids, the cool nerds, the jocks , the other jocks, then the average kids for like 4 tables then the stoners and castaways , then the so called freaks, the the disabled kids, then the stunted then an empty table and in the very corner was me. I would eat alone and make an imaginary world to escape into. I had trouble talking to anyone.
But I did have two really good friends from egypt. one was an egyptian kid and the other was my friend pete who lived in egypt for 5 years because his father was a military commander of some sort. He was a major. I would go home and yell the entire time at my parents all sorts of nonsensical things and then me and pete would smoke cigarettes and talk about stuff in the woods. There was a really cool fort there and a swing and I sat on that swing an average of 48 hours per day. I also liked rollerblading. and magic the gathering of which i was a top ten player out of 200-300 registered players in the state. I never went to parties except parties thrown by my egyptian friend in the woods. No one would talk to me because I looked kind of scary with my scratched up face and because i never looked at anyone.
One of the reasons I said in that thread one time looks are more important than
confidence is I had a dramatic change in looks over the course of a few months
and that caused things to come together at 15-16. I grew from 5'6" to 5'9" and a half , lost my braces and my skin problem disappeared. When i walked down the hallways I didnt expect anyone to talk to me.
I became very attractive. So one day I was walking down the hall and a very attractive girl was like hey how are you? are you new? I turned around expecting to see a guy who looks like cory monteith. but no one was behind me. I didn't know what to say since no one talks to me. After school that day I went into a subway and overheard some girls nervously deciding on how to introduce themselves to me. MY social skills in a normal context had deteriorated from years of being not allowed to eat at home, constantly treated as a ****** and being isolated. So the things I said got interpreted much better than they would have before and I gained a reputation as a reserved cool guy who did his own thing and at that time as a bit of a jerk. The jerk part was basically because I didn't know what to say, realized what not to say by then and so I often came across as uncaring. I went to a lot of parties and became fairly popular and made a decent amount of friends. and girlfriends. After that things got really weird. my dad became the ceo of a company with hundreds of employees. my cousin inherited several million dollars and a number of sportscars. I became involved in a gay sex orgy group. For a brief period of time I was living a kind of wasp fantasy lifestyle. This didnt last. I spent way too much money, did some extremely stupid stuff, got excommunicated from my family. I got straight fs a few semesters and basically kansas state was the only college i could go to. At kansas stater I became a severe alcoholic, skpped finals , slowly lost all my friends. I would drink for days straight. my dorm roomate left and I didnt even notice. when i got kicked out I was sent to a psychiatrist and my dorm room was full of bugs.

I decided I didnt need any of those things and built my own life from scratch. That didnt go so well either. I work in a grocery store.

Sheesh.

How do you deprogram people like this?

you dont, you just shame and dismiss her all the way to her grave

I was hacked obv.


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i dont wanna derail this thread too much (probably too late), but...

those teenage/adolescent years are awkward for basically everyone, sorry to hear you had such a rough go of it. the sort of aimless wandering that you describe from your teen/early adult years sounds a lot like my experiences [ minus the gay sex orgies, i wasnt so lucky ]- just a general lack of focus and direction.

serious question- have you ever gone to see a psychiatrist? i've had undiagnosed/unmanaged mental illness for years and i feel like you might be in the same boat. just judging by your tone and the (in)frequency of your posts, you seem to oscillate between manic and depressive phases, very similar to some of my friends who are bipolar (which they manage very well with meds nowadays. in the past, not so much).

Therapy is great. In a perfect society we should all have mandatory therapy when we're in high school.

Looking back I’m always surprised that my public high school with 2k students didn’t have an in-house therapist that you could talk to confidentially about anixiety, depression etc.

This

The constant mistake is thinking time should be spent winning these people over instead of abandoning them, outnumbering them, and never giving them a seat back at the table until the end of time

If after all this time you are a 99%er and a hardline rump supporter you’re unsalvagable human garbage

The same applies for the 1% rump supporters but at least the financial reasons can be rationalized

Yes. I have seen a number of psychiatrist, social workers and therapists over the years. In fact I was all set to be shipped off to the mental institution. But I have never been in an mental institution or stuck there. Im far from undiagnosed.

Even as a kid I knew that was a really stupid idea and it's only gotten worse since. Schools only care about saving their own asses.

At best, prescribe some drug the kid doesn't actually need and none of the issues ever get addressed.

I'm as emotional as a rock so I'll never understand bi-polar and that realm. Gl with it is all I got I guess :/

I don’t have a good link on my phone plus I’m lazy. But Allison ettel, a white lady that called the police on an 8yr old black child selling water outside the SF ballpark has been crushed on Twitter all day today. It’s been great.

IDK, but to me, you seem just fine and someone who is bored as hell and is looking for guidance. "the secret to happiness is progress."

TBH, I don't see any ****ing way how someone can post 15x a day on a touchy subject and start or maintain any degree of direction towards something new. I'm pretty sure that there is something out there outside of this habitual disaster that suits your fancy.

This would be illegal, since mental/medical treatment generally can't be provided to minors without their parents' consent.

They have a therapist at my kids private school. They have to get parents permission to talk to kids 1 on 1. Not sure if it has to be different in public schools.

Lol a little bit at a time. By this time next year they will be doing stories like: Should Cross Burning On Private Property Be Allowed? Our Panel Weighs In Next...

One of the perks of being in athletics at USC, even if not on a scholarship, is access to a sports psychologist. The kids I knew on the rowing team all thought that having someone to unload their problems on once a week was gigantic.

Wait what? The white woman who called the cops on the little kid selling water sells edibles for cats? Simulation confirmed insisting upon itself at this point.

A+

The funniest part to me is the whole permit thing. Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where homer forms a vigilante police force and harasseds underage kids drinking beer WITHOUT A PERMIT!

A pothead who worked with me fed his cats some kind of cbd or cbn product. He was sure that cbwhatever cured absolutely everything.