Cupcakes Are Mainstream

I’m a teenager why does my back hurt I’m not 70 years old

I had this girl in my class and she was considered to be like really dumb. She’d ask a ton of doubts and questions in class, which everybody would consider to be “stupid"and “silly” and even the teachers would often taunt her but she’d never stop asking. But the thing was that she’d almost always top the class examinations and everyone was like???? They all thought she was cheating and stuff and obviously even the teachers were very biased because she wasn’t so ‘smart’ in class, and she was regularly accused of cheating. But nobody could prove that she was actually cheating but the whole class and teachers totally believed that she did. I’m pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her, but she was leaving school this year and I was genuinely curious about how she was so good during exams and how she didn’t let everyone’s remarks affect her. She always used to sit and hang out with only one girl, and she told me that that friend of hers was severely socially anxious and she’d lag in studies because she couldn’t bring herself to ask doubts in class or ask for help from others. So they had this system where during lectures her friend would write down any question she had, and she would ask them for her. And I was just so touched??? Idk but it really changed the way I looked at people?? This girl endured taunts and jeers and borderline bullying for being “stupid” when she was actually really smart and could easily have refused to ask such doubts for her friend but she did?? And brushed off everything others would throw at her for her friend?? I was just, idk it just really changed me in some way.

This is also a commentary on ableism and how hurtful it is. One girl was so afraid of being seen as “stupid” that it stopped her from learning. And, judging by how her friend was treated for asking those questions, she was right to be afraid.

So my elementary school and middle school ALWAYS wanted us to ask questions and I was really good at it and I never got nervous etc so I’m kinda conditioned to clarify everything I’m the slightest bit confused on and when I started doing that in high school people will sigh or teachers will say they just said that etc i hate it

*wakes up, runs to the nearest river and starts strangling exotic fish*

no longer going to pursue a career! id like to be a rock. thanks

“I’ve been letting stray raccoons into the house each night and they have finally started establishing a vivilization in our downstairs closet- and I sometimes hear them plotting. I fear they may soon attempt to raid our kitchen of strictly blue themed items and trash-“

hnn I WANT IT SO BAD

Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?

OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement

There’s more!

job interviews: did you mean, advanced lying

small talk: did you mean, normal lying

the concept of the self: did you mean, secret lying

90% of my day is me being nervous

I just re-watched the Selfishness vs Selflessness video and honestly Virgil looks like he wants to beat Deceit with a shoe.