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I think the education system is awful. Whenever I was in school, particularly my final years of secondary school, school made my life a living hell, honestly. It was bad enough having to deal with the stress from exams, from my parents, from teachers, or the boring routine that I had to follow every day there, and how I was basically sleep-deprived every single day because of course, whenever I was younger, I maximised the dopamine whenever I got home from school so that would end up with me staying up late with my friends, whatever, and the cycle repeats. But particularly school was absolutely horrendous in my final few months because, you see, in secondary school, on my final year, I had this friend I would talk to in my class in my year group and that was fine but he unfortunately left midway through. After that I had no choice but to go to this group of "friends" but I would quickly realise that they were not my friends, "friends", and instead they just used me as a source of entertainment, honestly, and it started off small… They would joke here and there but it got progressively worse and worse and it hurt me more each time. Whenever it first started, sure, I can take a joke. There's nothing wrong with that but it progressively got worse and worse and it was like I was their source of entertainment because they would just push my buttons until I just lost it, which was, very honestly, about two times actually. I did get seriously angry but most of the time I was just jokingly angry, if you know what I mean. I already did not like school but now I had to worry about: having zero friends in my classes and at lunch and break times I had to deal with these fake horrible "friends". That made my life absolutely horrendous and I wouldn't wish that on anyone because it was traumatic. It was so bad and I don't think I've ever felt as tired as those evenings whenever I would come home from school after a day like that. I'm really grateful I'm not at school now.

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