I know, it's a big challenge when others make judgements and you know they are not true. shakesphere, for the past 8 years alone I have been through hell with this challenge, often I can't believe how people can actually believe the horrible gossip that has been spread about me from individuals that are very "dysfunctional" and manipulative and toxic. I genuinely don't know how people can live with themselves. However, a lot of people are very shallow and a lot of people go along with because they really don't know how to stand up and fight back. However, I read an article just recently that talked about how there are many individuals who are set up in their brain to "follow" along and I found that very interesting and now I wish I had posted it.

However, it's important to recognize how many children are educated to be this way. Our children are constantly being graded and judged with everything they learn and try to accomplish. Our children are taught to strive for perfection in a world where being perfect is impossible. So, what we teach our children is how to "stress" and develop a sense of unworthiness, and we also teach them to cheat because if one cannot be perfect, they have to learn how to at least look like they are somehow.