Thinking back, the first thing that started my spiral in highschool and eventually snowballed into me dropping out was a mandatory public speaking assignment in a fucking health class during sophomore year. I was a pretty decent student up until then.
I had really bad social anxiety that no amount of “suck it up and get over it” would have fixed. I wasn’t able to confront and remedy it until years later.
But yeah, forced to give an oral exam in front of a class of 30+, just skipped the entire class, took the F, my grades tanked to the point it was impossible to recover without repeating years and summer school. My mom already barely had enough money as it was, forget going to summer school. So I just dropped out.
The teacher was completely indifferent when I told her in private and gave me the whole “you either do it or fail” so yeah. A year later I dropped out. Life didn’t really turn out much different had I graduated, though so there’s that. Maybe I would’ve struggled less in my 20s, idk.
AOC feels like if a bunch of tiktok discourse and therapy language was a sentient person.
“It’ll be easier to organize under Harris”…but like, you’re not organizing now? It’s basically the same administration. Big “I’ll start eating healthier on this arbitrary date instead of doing it right now” kind of energy.
Organizing under trump: damn I’m being beaten up by police and arrested
Organizing under Harris: damn I’m being beaten up and arrested and liberals are telling me that now is not the time and to go about the proper channels and wait for small incremental changes