no ones ever been this supportive abt me posting a storytime before but yall were quick with it

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blocked for unnecessary disrespect. 😡😡😡😡😡

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im sorry ;n;

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ima summarize it dw
A month ago, an email mentioned a "fun day" called Challenge Day, where tenth graders spend their day in a gym bonding. The email was met with disapproval from classmates who were not thrilled about the event. A friend invited the narrator and another friend to rock climb, but the narrator couldn't attend. Instead, they decided to rock climb together. The narrator's mom initially didn't want them to go, but after explaining the situation, they agreed to rock climb. The narrator's mom was upset, but the group still went to the event. On a terrifying day at school, the protagonist was locked out of the gym with a crowd of teachers. Suddenly, a grown man screamed at them, and the door flew open, almost hitting them. The teachers were lining up, and everyone was awkwardly laughing. The protagonist was sidelined by everyone, including a potential partner. During guest speakers and ice breakers, the protagonist was dehydrated and had to pee in the bathroom. Despite being a former friend of one of the girls involved, the protagonist was unable to express their religion in school. They went back to the gym for more icebreakers and were supposed to trauma dump in small groups. The protagonist expressed their feelings about not being able to express their religion in school. The text describes a group of students who were forced to cross a line during a challenging activity. The leaders instructed everyone to be mature and present their best selves, leading to a lack of understanding and support. The students were unaware of their own experiences, such as hearing gunshots, experiencing racism, moving from a different country, and experiencing panic attacks or anxiety. They also realized that they were not alone in their struggles, and that they were not alone in their struggles. The students' silence during the activity was appreciated, as they managed to remain respectful and show support for those struggling. The students also played sad music in the background, which helped to create a sense of unity and support.

can u pls stop ur like undermining my entire writing piece in a text that is not even like the main point

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thank you.

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💅💅💅WHEN MY ENTIRE GRADE FINALLY RESPECTED EACH OTHER💅💅💅

💅💅💅💅WWWWEEELECCCOME BACK FOLKS TO ANOTHER DEL STORYTIME!!!!! I cant say much abt other ppl in this storytime because im sorta sworn to confidentiality but i WILL and CAN tell you my perspective on it and what happened with ME

so a month ago, an email was sent out to me and a bunch of classmates. this email mentioned a "fun day" called Challenge Day, which is a full school day where the tenth graders completely devote their day to sitting in a gym bonding. so naturally we were NOT thrilled to hear this. we were ALSO not thrilled to hear from juniors abt last year that apparently all it was was just standing behind a line and they were like "TAKE A STEP FORWARD IF UR DEPRESSED" or something. so we were like OH BOY AN UNHELPFUL GROUP TRAUMA DUMP 😃 and we were TERRIFIED bc yall know my beef. we were also terrified to share and to be made fun of by others.

so a while back my friend who does rock climbing wanted to invite me and another friend to rock climb with her, it was super last minute invite so i ended up not being able to go. so jokingly i was like "hey instead of going to challenge day what if we just rock climb lol" and all my friends were like "omg yes!!!" and so she asked her parents and they ACTUALLY SAID she could go, but only IF other friends go with her. but knowing my parents of COURSE they wouldn't want me to go. but i threw it out there just to confirm, and yep. it kinda blew up in my face because for some reason my mom expected to be mad that she said no and she kept trying to make me mad abt it??? and i was like ermmm and gently explained the situation to her multiple times. but all is good.

so we had to go to challenge day.

today was the day! i came to school absoltuely terrified and had absolutely no idea whats going on. all the sophomores were locked out of the gym with a huge crowd of random teachers inside it, and all we could do was chat with our friends and write name tags. so eventually theyre like hey what is even going on in there so i look in the window of the door and there is A GROWN MAN CHARGING AT ME. so i scream and jump back and the door FLIES OPEN and almost hits me. someone screams "ITS A CULT LEADER" and then hes liek ALRIGHT LOAD HER UP BOYS and we all file in and put our backpacks on. THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE MOST NPC THING EVER GUYS ALL THE TEACHERS WERE LINED UP FORMING A BIG TUNNEL AND APPLAUDING LIKE U JUST FINISHED A ROBLOX GAME 😭😭😭 we were ALL absoltuely flabbergasted and everyone was awkwardly laughing and everyone walked through the tunnel of teachers and sat in a big circle and since everyone is beefing with me we're all sideyeing each other and OF COURSE the guy i MIGHT kinda like is sitting directly across from me and we keep making eye contact (we would never work out due to differences in religion but yk i always be liking guys that would never like me back 💅💅) so anyways guest speakers and stuff and then ice breakers and mind u im literaly abt to pee my pants (if yall know me irl yall know i always have to pee at the WORST times 😭 but im also super dehydrated (as my doctors say)?? so idk how that works out. anyways so me and my friend run up to a random bathroom bc they give us a potty break 🤓 and then we do our business but unfortunately two of the girls i was beefing with were there and i tried to get my friend to go to the middle school bathroom with me but she didnt know what beef we had so she just said its fine. anwyays so we go back and MORE icebreakers and we're supposed to trauma dump to these small groups but im actually former friends with one of them so YALL ARE N O T GONNA CATCH M E trauma dumping in front of HER. but she tells a really inspiring story which i rlly respect her for now. anywyas so i ddint know what to say so i said something abt me not being able to express my religion in school idk something not that big.

then comes the time we have to cross the line. me and my friends were all TERRIFIED once again because we thought it was gonna be bad. but then the leaders told everynoe to be mature and present their most mature selves. and so everyone fell silent. they said "cross the line if" and so many things. I found myself crossing the line SO MANY TIMES for what they said. I never even knew I had it like that. I didn't know i was one of the few people that heard gunshots near my house. I didn't know i was only out of THREE PEOPLE IN MY GRADE that have ever experienced racism. I didn't know that I was only out of four people in my grade that moved from a different country, and part of that being a bit of conflict abt politics. but that's just me being one of a very small group. I also didn't know that I wasn't alone, that almost half of the grade had had panic attacks or struggled with anxiety just like me (bro i literally crossed that line WHILE i was having a panic attack) or that all of us knew someone struggling with a sickness, or that all of us have lost a loved one. I didn't know i wasn't the only one that stayed up late because a friend was considering committing suicide. so many people cried, and i tried to offer silent support through hugs.

I came to a realization: there are so many people in my grade, but did I REALLY take the time to know them? when they said "yeah im fine" did they REALLY mean it? did I take the initiative to help with others who felt alone?

most of the time i crossed that line, I realized i felt sort of embarrassed to be there. A lot of times i was almost completely alone standing there, and all i could do was look at my hands, because if I looked at anyone else I knew I would start crying. I could feel everyone in the room looking at me, and I thought "yeah i should have pretended i didnt struggle with this 💀" when i realized NO. i am not alone up here. if i crossed back over those people would feel alone, and that no one else struggled the same way.

I really appreciate my entire grade's silence during this activity. we're a chaotic bunch, all separated into several groups, but all of them managed to stay silent and respectful, and still show their support for all that were struggling.

THEY WERE PLAYING SAD MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND AND LEMME TELL U THAT WAS N O T HELPING THE TEARS FORMING

ngl i kinda have a bit of hatred now towards your teachers

why 💀

because of the f**king music

Omg yes

like what was that 💀

kinda insensitive istg

bro we were sobbing when suddenly we heard "TONNIGIGIGHTTT WE ARE YOOUNGGG" and that was the senior trio song from last year's dance recital which just made me cry harder 💀

like letting it out is good but cmon man that just deepens the sadness

literally dhar mann music

my school is such a dhar mann video i cant

guh
they should've played "Tonight the World Dies" by A7X if they're gonna play sad music

lol

is everyone in your grade white or something no way only you experienced racism

yes the majority of my grade is white 💀 me and two other asians were the only ones that experienced racism

even southeast asians and black ppl didnt step up

bro this southeast asian in my classes has prolly experienced more racism than the average slave

People keep calling him black and a monkey

thats so horrible to hear

nah hes pretty chill

most of it is satire

thats gotta hurt deep down lowkey though

it isnt even just racism from white ppl i got racism from asians too lol its just my unacceptance from both of my races

me and my friend group are always racist to each other (bc we're young teenage boys) like last year all of our lunch conversations were just about RACIAL SLURS AND NOTHING ELSE

and thats how i got the n word pass

HUH

all of the asians in our group (including me and that southeast asian) collectivelly give and revoke asian slurs to people

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my group has never said anything mildly (jokingly) racist to me until that one time i said "omg im freezing" and my friend said "are u bing chilling" 💀

LMAO

IKR 💀 I COULD NOT CONTAIN MY LAUGHTER

also i just hit 120000

omg ate

okay i did the math there might be just like 10 ppl in my grade (including me) that aren't completely white

like a bunch of us are half white but ofc to the white ppl we arent white

No way☠

I live in EUROPE AND THERE LIKE A FIFITH OF MY SCHOOL IS WHITE

massachusetts is like a super liberal state in the us you'd think they would be more diverse

but ofc the town i go to school in is a 99% white rich ppl town (i live in a town thats kinda low income but i managed to schoolchoice to that school, my schools in my town are diverse though)

there used to be a whole bunch of asians in my school but they all graduated or the asians are in younger grades but theres still abt like 20 of us in our 6-12 grade school (including mixeds)

bro how is my school so diverse

HUH

also its 5 for me so bye

its 12:24 am for me

fr

most of the colored people are at lisbon too

SO HOW IS SOME RANDOM SCHOOL IN THE ALGARVE MORE DIVERSE THAN A TWITTER GIRLS BIO

AHAHAHA

the algarve is the province at the very bottom btw

and its not even close to Faro (the big bohemoth hongalonga city of the province)

oh

WAIT FARO IS THE NINTEENTH POPULATED CITY IN PORTUGAL

I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS NUMBER THREE OR SOMETHING

RLLY

ig its because it has a really big airport

due to tourism n stuf

yeah maybe

and im saying asians because theres like barely any other race besides that like my school is just a bunch of white ppl

when the activity was over, there was a newfound respect or a way of seeing each other. after some more activities (we were barely holding it together, I LITERALLY CRIED TO LET IT GO 💀 THEY WERE PLAYING THE MOST RANDOM MUSIC BUT IT HIT HARD SOMEHOW) they said to raise your hand if u owe someone in the room an apology. INSTANTLY my ex friends hands shot up and i literally saw one of them make eye contact with me and i was like "oh boy." i think its bc i crossed the line when they said "step over the line if youve ever felt ignored in school" or "step over the line if someone IN THIS ROOM has put you down or insulted you" 😭 so random greatest showman music turns on and everyone stands up. i get with my friends we're all sobbing and i give them a hug and literally say "ilysm pookies" 🗿 (yes folks my personality on here is mostly the same as irl, i say mostly bc i dont have the courage to type up big speeches like this for everyone to see irl or tell ppl what i really think irl) and then suddenly the girl that made eye contact RUNS UP TO ME AND LITERALLY APOLOGIZES. only one of my friends knew the beef but eveyrone knew i was beefing with them. I glanced at them and EVERYONES JAWS WERE ON THE F L O O R. she apologized for EVERYTHING SHE DID and had a cute speech and i smiled at her and said like "dw i've already forgiven you a while ago I hope we can put this in the past" or something like that and we hugged and then two other girls pop up and are like "[del] im so sorry" and also hug me and im like "dw i forgive u" (unfortunately the girl that truly hurt me never apologized, idrc though bc she wasnt really friends with me. i forgive her anyways though) they walk away together and it feels like a huge weight is lifted off my shoulders and the feeling of crying is temporarily gone from me. i turn around and i said to my friends "GUYS THAT DID N O T JUST HAPPEN" and everyone was like "OH MY GOSH WHAT WAS THAT" and i was like "THERES ACTUALLY NO WAY" and then we walk to the otoher side of the room and a ton of our friends were there hugging each other. everyone was crying and i gave out SO many hugs. i made sure to say to every one of them "you are so strong. youve made it this far, look at you now! i love you so much. know that you can always talk to me" (obviously worded differently for each person im not an npc) and everyone was actually BAWLING. it was insane 😭

seeing those ppl cross the line was the most moving part of my experience. it showed how much ppl really struggle. for so many of those topics you really never know what theyre going through in that department because no one ever talks about it casually. you need to really look deep into a person to fully understand what theyre going through and to show your support for them if you want them to know they care. I respect my whole grade so much, so i decided to completely forgive everyone (i hope it can last, at least for today) i really hope this respect will continue from this day forward.

I always looked at the grades above me. all the grades in my school (6-12) start out so immature. then around 11th grade they start bonding together as a community, sitting together at lunch, being able to all get along and get to know each other, etc. i always thought it just happened as you got older, but today i realized that maybe because it is from this day. maybe it really happens halfway through sophomore year, and everyone finds a mutual respect for one another.

i really hope we can continue respecting each other, because this was one of the most powerful days ever.

and just like that, it's over. ppl will still gossip abt each other. we're still going to stay up all night crying over the five tests we have on friday. but we do have a newfound respect for each other, I believe.

this day really was a wakeup call. maybe I don't have to be nice, I have to be kind. I need to take that extra step to make someone's day better. maybe when I see someone sitting alone at lunch, I'll ask to sit with them, or if they want to sit with me. maybe if someone doesn't have a partner in a project, i'll be their partner, or they can join my group. i'll always be open to listen to anything someone has to say, no matter who they are or my history with them. like yall dont understand. this day MADE ME wanna do good things. im literally going to go to confession and be free. im gonna do several hours of community service or something. like this is BIG guys.

you all probably wont REALLY take anything away from this. and that's okay. ive heard so many stories abt being movitated and im always like "omg yeah so inspiring!" but seeing that silent but very visual experience really changed something in all of us. you NEED that in person experience.

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honestly that sounds like a you problem...

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im not a very social creature so i would probably never cross the line once even if it was something that's happened to me😭

no the thing was no one was gonna cross the line bc we were all scared to 😭 but once we saw ppl that would NEVER cross that line willignly we did too

for the one abt racism i thought i was the only one abt to go up. so i ran back to my friends, but once i saw I wasn't alone I went back up

I read it all, like I promised! I did take away a little bit, such as the 'fun day' was a ploy. They had their mind in the right place, it was just implemented wrong. You were brave, and I am proud of you!

we knew what was coming for us so at least we were prepared 😭 thank you sm!!