adhighdefinition:

as someone who grew up neurodivergent, can i just say “kids will be kids” is not good enough to excuse the years of peer abuse i had to go through because you couldn’t teach little johnny how to behave like a decent fucking person. both teachers and parents didn’t do jack shit but to hold on to their own agenda which was to get me to erase parts of myself so that i could please them. the problem was always on my side. it was my fault. but i’m an adult now and sick of it. so i sincerely hope you unlearn that ableism or get out of my sight.

It’s weird too in that I’m friends on facebook with adults now who, while they weren’t bullying me in Middle and Elementary school per se, never really cared that I was being bullied and a few of them have liked posts about my Middle and Elementary school friendships with other “weird” kids and/or my anti-bullying posts. I feel uncomfortable when they do thos things but I never quite know how to explain why.