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I’m 17 (kinda PIMO) and been in “the truth“ for all my life, but as I get older I start to fall out from this religion and I’m getting tired of it. More specifically, the constant pressure and force from my parents to comment (and overall preform better at the hall).

They always hold me to the standard I apparently set when I was a young child, always commenting at the meetings, being friendly to everyone and greeting them.

But I was as young as 5 when I was like that. And I just find it so stupid how they compare me to when I was just some mindless child and expect me to be the same as I was then.

They say that commenting is an expression of faith and to share what you learn. I make all my comments last minute mid meeting because if I don’t, my dad is gonna glare at me, shake his head, and then when I get home it’s this constant pestering from both my parents about how I need to make comments.

Not only that, but if I don’t have an answer, my mom would send me her answers generated by GPT for me to comment. It’s been like that for a long time too, her sending me over her answers (be it she typed it herself or ripped it out of some FaceBook group) and made me comment it.

I’ve argued countless times to my parents that the whole purpose to commenting is just being defeated by the pressure they put on me and them forcing me to comment answers that aren’t even my words. And they still tell me that I have to comment anyway, “encourage“ other brothers and sisters (with my half assed answers), and that the more I comment the more it’ll “reach my heart.”

I just keep commenting at the end of the day because I just want my peace and I don’t want my parents to bother me about it. But I’m just so done and tired with this unnecessary pressure.

But I just gotta keep putting up with this until I’m stable enough to move out and drop this whole thing. But vent aside, thank you if you read through this whole post. And you’re more than welcome to share if you‘re going through something similar.

I’m about to be a senior this upcoming school year, yet I never took school seriously. But lately, I’ve taken a huge interest in molecular biology, and it’s something I’m seriously considering as a career in the future.

I don’t really know where to start, and I’m not the best when it comes to studying and reading dense text. I feel like I’m pretty behind with trying to catch up again. As of right now, I’ve been planning ways to catch up before and during school.

So far, I have high school biology, chemistry, physics, statistics, algebra 1, precalculus and an intro to Python as my saved courses on Khan Academy to study (I plan to upgrade to the college level courses when I get better). And since I’m a “visual learner”, I did buy a “How Biology Works” book by DK to just help kickstart me into reading as a habit again.

If you do have any advice or suggestions on what I should study or consider, please let me know!

I’ve been wanting to get into reading chapter books for awhile, but I just can’t seem to get myself to read them. Ive always felt incredibly stupid for being this way too. It feels like a lot of people can read chapter books normally yet it’s frustrating and difficult for me. The thing is, I actually love reading, but I can only really read graphic novels. I don’t have a problem with that whatsoever. But it feels like I’m missing out on a lot of good stories. I’ve been very interested in reading Project Hail Mary and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, but the fact that they’re chapter books already intimidate me a little. Has anyone else felt the same way and how did you get over it??

TL;DR — I struggle to read chapter books because they intimidate me and I’d like to know how I can get over this

Title pretty much says it all. I’m just really hesitant because of so many factors. To start off, I’ve been in online school for 5 years. The last time I even went inside a school building was when I was in 5th grade. Ever since then, I’ve stayed online. But I fear that my life is getting too serious now for me to continue practicing my online school habits.

I did cheat almost if not entirely my whole way through middle school and now. And I know I’m very fucked with my future if I don’t do anything about this. And even though I do have a pretty good social life irl without school, a part of me still wants to see if it’s possible to make more friends, or at the VERY least just get some actual experience with other people who aren’t just in my social bubble.

But there’s still some worries that stick with me. Such as if I will even be able to fit in or if I’ll get bullied for how behind or awkward I am. I would consider school threats as another reason for worry, but I just think threats like that are somewhat common anyway (and ultimately no matter where you go there’s always some sort of danger).

And still a part of me wants to try to experience high school once in my life before I don’t get that chance anymore. Or at least just feel fulfilled that I actually did learn and earn my graduation instead of feeling like I just cheated through everything to get here (which I really did, honestly). But I don’t know still. I just thought it would be nice to get a second opinion on this who actually knows how high school is (because a LOT of my irl friends have also just done online school most of their life like me).

TL;DR — I want to go back in person for my last year of high school after staying online for all of middle and most of high school but I’m scared because I’m worried I’m too behind or late for it.

Title pretty much says it all. I’m just really hesitant because of so many factors. To start off, I’ve been in online school for 5 years. The last time I even went inside a school building was when I was in 5th grade. Ever since then, I’ve stayed online. But I fear that my life is getting too serious now for me to continue practicing my online school habits.

I did cheat almost if not entirely my whole way through middle school and now. And I know I’m very fucked with my future if I don’t do anything about this. And even though I do have a pretty good social life irl without school, a part of me still wants to see if it’s possible to make more friends, or at the VERY least just get some actual experience with other people who aren’t just in my social bubble.

But there’s still some worries that stick with me. Such as if I will even be able to fit in or if I’ll get bullied for how behind or awkward I am. I would consider school threats as another reason for worry, but I just think threats like that are somewhat common anyway (and ultimately no matter where you go there’s always some sort of danger).

And still a part of me wants to try to experience high school once in my life before I don’t get that chance anymore. Or at least just feel fulfilled that I actually did learn and earn my graduation instead of feeling like I just cheated through everything to get here (which I really did, honestly). But I don’t know still. I just thought it would be nice to get a second opinion on this who actually knows how high school is (because a LOT of my irl friends have also just done online school most of their life like me).

TL;DR — I want to go back in person for my last year of high school after staying online for all of middle and most of high school but I’m scared because I’m worried I’m too behind or late for it.