Re: Anti-Socialization
Thomas and Nanci Kuykendall
At 09:10 AM 6/4/99 EDT, you wrote:
I can definately identify with your situation. Except that I became
depressed and suicidal LOOOOOONG before 16, unfortunately. I began running
away from home, in a desperate effort to leave my pain behind, at age 5! I
left notes when I was little, saying that no one loved me, because that was
how I 'felt.' In later years I just left.
I always came back however, because most of my problems followed me, of
course. My problems were compounded by my own chemical imbalance that was
never diagnosed/treated as a child, and the fact that my parents never did
seek any help for me, no matter how bad things got. My Fathers ex was a
therapist/counselor, and he loathed and avoided anyone in any profession
related to that like the plague.
My friends came from the city Zoo, where I volunteered for five years
beginnning at age 11. Before that, my best friend was a Russian immigrant
who lived in my neighborhood, (she later moved away) and who's father
worked with mine. School was not a friendly place for me.
Nanci K. in Idaho
>From: Kitchen38@...Mary Ellen,
>I was extremely shy in school and wouldn't talk. I too, had one friend.
>So, the question is: Did school teach me socialization? No, it almost killed
>me.
>The bottom line is: School hurts innocent children. Thirteen years of
>"socialization" and only one friend and I almost killed myself in the
>process...yeah, socialization is the greatest.
>Mary Ellen.
I can definately identify with your situation. Except that I became
depressed and suicidal LOOOOOONG before 16, unfortunately. I began running
away from home, in a desperate effort to leave my pain behind, at age 5! I
left notes when I was little, saying that no one loved me, because that was
how I 'felt.' In later years I just left.
I always came back however, because most of my problems followed me, of
course. My problems were compounded by my own chemical imbalance that was
never diagnosed/treated as a child, and the fact that my parents never did
seek any help for me, no matter how bad things got. My Fathers ex was a
therapist/counselor, and he loathed and avoided anyone in any profession
related to that like the plague.
My friends came from the city Zoo, where I volunteered for five years
beginnning at age 11. Before that, my best friend was a Russian immigrant
who lived in my neighborhood, (she later moved away) and who's father
worked with mine. School was not a friendly place for me.
Nanci K. in Idaho
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In a message dated 6/4/99 8:24:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
tn-k4of5@... writes:
<< I always came back however, because most of my problems followed me, of
course. My problems were compounded by my own chemical imbalance that was
never diagnosed/treated as a child, and the fact that my parents never did
seek any help for me, no matter how bad things got. My Fathers ex was a
therapist/counselor, and he loathed and avoided anyone in any profession
related to that like the plague.
You sound alot like my dh. He is going to be 45 this year and we
(me and the doctors) are still trying to figure out how to help him. He is
very supportive of unschooling because of his years in p.s.
Mary Ellen.
tn-k4of5@... writes:
<< I always came back however, because most of my problems followed me, of
course. My problems were compounded by my own chemical imbalance that was
never diagnosed/treated as a child, and the fact that my parents never did
seek any help for me, no matter how bad things got. My Fathers ex was a
therapist/counselor, and he loathed and avoided anyone in any profession
related to that like the plague.
>>Nanci,
You sound alot like my dh. He is going to be 45 this year and we
(me and the doctors) are still trying to figure out how to help him. He is
very supportive of unschooling because of his years in p.s.
Mary Ellen.