That I have ADHD and was not extremely lazy and difficult.
I can’t pause it, it’s multiplayer!
-or-
If you pick up the phone, I have to start downloading this MP3 I’ve been trying to get for half an hour all over again!
I have to start downloading this MP3 I’ve been trying to get for half an hour all over again!
I started using GetRight, if I recall correctly.
I also exploited the living shit out of my high school’s fast connection and a friend’s Zip drive. Pretty sure they had a T1 and the only reason it was so fast was basically because teachers were only using it for email.
I also exploited the living shit out of my high school’s fast connection and a friend’s Zip drive.
My school had a T1, too, but I didn’t have a zip drive, and MP3s were too big for floppies. However, old cracked games very often came in segmented zips that were floppy sized. I’d bring home games 20 or 30 disks at a time (or as many as I thought I could without drawing attention in the computer lab) over the course of a week or more.
I couldn’t manage to convince my parents that I had piss poor vision until I was 8 years old. When I finally managed to get them to take me to the eye doctor and get prescription glasses, my mom apologized to me repeatedly for like 2 weeks.
In my head:
You: “Mom! Everything looks bad!”
Mom: “I know sweetheart, but even though everything seems hopeless we have to focus on the positive things…”
I never even knew that I actually had bad vision until that first prescription at age age 8. If you’ve never seen clearly before, you don’t even realize your vision is blurry to even tell anyone.
But you’d figure that they might have started getting a clue years earlier when I got lost in my own room, couldn’t see the chalkboard in class, and had to sit super close to the TV…
My dad would get mad at me for sitting too close to the tv or for not recognizing people. They never thought to have my eyes checked until my Kindergarten teacher had the school test my eye sight
In 2nd grade at age 7, they tested us with the basic eye test chart. When they asked me to read the first letter from the chart, I asked “What chart?”
I literally couldn’t even read the huge E on the top of the chart. It was just a huge blurry white rectangle on the door to me.
I got in trouble for ‘acting out and refusing to take the test’ or some shit like that. Ain’t that about fucked up?
I couldn’t explain to them that I wanted the 12 MB Voodoo 2 3d accelerator so they got me the 8 MB version which limited me to 800x600.
That capitalism is exploitation. I simply didn’t have the education to be able to fight back against the bullshit I was being fed.
The same goes for Christianity being more about control of the populace (and women in particular) than about making people become good people.
Come to think of it, even with all my education, I still can’t get through to these stupid fucks.
It’s not me, it’s them.
