scott wrote:
>> Just for the record: I have never taken any A-levels. I only took 3 
>> GCSEs. I got a B and two Cs. This are unprecidentedly high grades for 
>> the school I went to. (Remember, I went to a school for mentally 
>> retarded people.)
> 
> OOC why did you go to that school, you don't seem mentally retarded!

Have you heard my voice? I certainly *sound* retarded! (I talk waaaaay 
tooo sloooowllllyyyy...)

Well anyway, the first school I went to was a rough school. Kids could 
beat up other kids just for entertainment. Whoever the weakest kid was, 
he or she got beat the most. Wanna guess who the weakest kid in my class 
was?

Anyway, when I reached the age of 9, I still couldn't read or write. At 
all. I mean, I spent every day at school in a state of absolute terror, 
I wasn't even paying attention to *lessons*! And the school repeatedly 
refused to lift a finger to stop the kids bullying me.

I can vividly remember being chased across the playground screaming blue 
murder begging for somebody to save me. But the staff just stood there 
smoking, not really paying attention. Afterwards I asked one of them 
"why didn't you save me?!" The disinterested individual casually 
responded "uw, I thought they woz just playin widja". Yeah, thanks for that.

So then I got moved to this school for weird kids. And my god, were they 
weird! Some of them couldn't even speak properly, or at all. Almost all 
of them were very obviously strange.

On the plus side, I learned to read and write. (Although it seems some 
people here have nothing better to do than point out my spelling 
mistakes.) On the minus side... I spent 7 years without being able to 
interact with normal humans, and without being able to interact with 
*girls*. As absurd as it seems, I was 21 years old the first time I had 
a real conversation with a girl my age who wasn't my sister.

(Actually, this turned out to be the first time I *touched* a real girl 
too. After weeks of pestering, she did eventually let me kiss her. Most. 
Terrifying. Thing. EVER! But DAMN she was ****ing good at it!! *sigh* 
She's married now. I can't even contact her any more...)

Originally I assumed that I went to this school because I couldn't read 
or write. But now, looking back, it has gradually become clear to me 
that *I* am not normal either. I do things that normal people don't do. 
There clearly *is* something wrong with me. And I know it's incurable. I 
find this extremely upsetting.

>> FWIW, my statements above were about college too. The class I was in 
>> contained a bunch of "lads" who were more interested in getting drunk 
>> and arguing about Cast vs Blur than actually learning stuff.
> 
> That mostly stops when you get to A-levels, because it's optional you 
> only get people there who actually want to be there.

Well, going to college is optional too. People told me it would be 
"different" at college. But from what I can tell, the guys who were 
there were too hopeless to get actual jobs, so they went to college 
instead. Wuh?! o_O

At least at uni the people weren't so *completely* stupid...

> Aww, would have been better if you had some hot girls in your group, 
> then I'm sure you wouldn't have minded completely rewriting their code 
> from scratch :-)

Girls? In a computing course...?

Which part of the world do *you* live in?? o_O

(Actually, in fairness, the full class was 80 people, and IIRC about 6 
of them were female. And 2 of them were my age. The other 4 were married 
with children. The two my age held a deep fascination for me... although 
obviously I was terrified of them. And, apparently, they were both 
spoken for anyway...)

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