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Originally Posted by InTherapy
Well, it sounds really horrible when you put it like that. It's not like they took the books away forever or said we weren't allowed to read them. They just wanted to encourage us to socialize and develop social skills. It would be kind of remiss of them to not encourage students to branch out and work on their areas of trouble. Sure, I hated it at the time, and I never did fit in, but I bet that I get along better today than I would have if they didn't sometimes take away my books.
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This is where I became quite obdurate. They could take the books away and they could make me stand there with other children near me and they could make me jump the stupid rope or what ever and they could do those sorts of things, but they could not make me agree to it or do it internally. They could get my body but not my mind. I was not going to fall for their machinations. I finally started getting friends around high school.
And elementary and junior high were horrible. I threw up almost every day. No one bullied me or anything - I was too weird for that. Or perhaps they tried and I just did not notice.