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[โ€“] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

lol. same upbringing. nobody understands how common this is in most of small town america. probably because they only 'small towns' they are familiar with are all the tourist spots, which are not really small town at all because they are full of city people.

i went from being suicidal everyday to actually being happy and feeling good... because i got out. I was in tears i was so happy my first week in college, of being free from all that horrible ignorant bullshit. people really do not get how utterly provincial these places are.

god my primary/secondary education was so AWFUL too. nobody in the entire system had any legit knowledge. it was all just deadbeat losers whose biggest goal and achievement in was going to a pro sports game and being bitter about life that other people actually did something with theirs.

sadly a lot of my friends dropped out of college because it was 'too hard' to think for themselves and they ended up moving home, getting shitty local jobs usually working for their dad, and just popping out 2-3 kids by 24 and just repeating the cycle.

[โ€“] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

god my primary/secondary education was so AWFUL too. nobody in the entire system had any legit knowledge

lol i know that feeling. that's why i studied so much, to bring the knowledge into the world.