Reply #13: Easy for you to say. [View All]

[coloradodem2005]

I would rather be anybody else. Anybody else has something going for them. Anybody else has a job. A future. They actually have love in their lives. They are not so depressed that they cannot even fill out a job application. Watching their friends move forward and get married, making them feel more and more isolated. I'm not them I know. But I would rather be them.

You know what bothers me? There is such rhetoric about how everybody is different and that things move at different paces and how people learn differently and different things make them tick. But there is either a said or unsaid way of doing things that accommodates a certain group of people. If you are not in that group. Tough shit. Nobody ever wants to change the system. I get short-changed because I am an introvert. I get short changed because I was in special ed. once upon a time. I get told I have my work cut out for me because I don't always like the way things are done in school, because it does not work for my learining style. And anybody else gets hired for jobs because they are deemed good enough, while I am deemed not good enough. Everyone else gets a girlfriend/wife because they are deemed good enough, while I simply get patronized with an "I'll bet that you'll find someone soon" bull shit. If there is anything I have been taught, it is that I am not okay being me.