Izuku's guide on how to survive middle school

Step 4

The teachers are lying
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Being alone is never easy. Though, slowly but surely, you start to get used to no one wanting to hang around you. It like an unwritten law: No one must dare to sit with the wierd kid at lunch, or there will be consequences.

I really believe that not all the teens are bad. Many are just scared of what being seen with me might do to them. When you see first hand what being like me brings upon you, you try to stay as far away as possible. And I don't blame them for that. I wouldn't want my bad reputation to bring harm upon the ones that treated me with kindness. Even if they hadn't done so yet.

I just know, that, if they could, they would have helped me when I was in need. Right?

When you get bullied a lot, you start to expect people to treat you the worst way possible. I tend to avoid kids my age or younger, even if I had never met them before, out of pure fear of what they might do to me. My interactions with people in the past few mouths had been limited to my mom and maybe a person or two at the checkout of a store. In all honesty, it hadn't been that difficult to end up this closed off. After all, do you expect anyone to come up to you out of nowhere and start talking? I wouldn't think so.

People meet new people when they are forced on a situation where they see each other repeatedly and are expected to hold some kind of decent interaction. For example, think of a workplace. The employees there, like it or not, have to have some kind of communication between them in order for the company to run smoothly, but also for them to not feel so cut out from the outside world.

School works the same exact way. You talk with people there and get to know them, because you know that, in the future, you might need a helpful hand to remind you of homework. Or rather someone that can support you emotionally and you can be friends with. That's how human interaction work and I admittedly suck at them. But that fine! Who needs friends anyway...

As I was saying, I have lost all trust on teens. Of course, that's not to say adults are trustworthy. No, far from it really. But, when someone is an adult, they have opinions that most of the time they don't show to the outside world. Meaning that me being quirkless generally annoys them to no end, but they don't dare say anything because they know it's not politically correct to express these opinions. Even when they know that everyone around them believes the same exact thing.

Teachers and I always had a complicated relationship. To me, they just kind of simply existed. That's it.

What I mean is that, they are supposed to be this knowledgeable professionals whose only purpose is to pass on their knowledge to the next generation. And yet, most of them don't even know what subject they are teaching. Others just choose not to teach the class for whatever personal reason they might have, leaving only few that care enough to pass on some snippets of whatever the book is saying. And of course, when exams come around, all the same they expect you to have somehow acquired the information needed to pass the grade.

I never quite understood why it worked that way. But, I guess I am not the only one dealing with this here. Everyone is.

Teachers are also the people that students are supposed to put their trust on. After all, who was going to support the students if they didn't. They are supposed to not take sides, always try to help the weak students, the ones that can't deal with the stress of the lessons, the small ones that get bullied. They need to be able to pick you up and put you back in the right way. Push you forward, help make your dream happen. And luckily, in my school they did just that. But, not for me.