lol. I really wish I had the same mentality. Unique/unfortunate circumstances made me an outsider to this. Ie for one I don’t go 2 my home skool with like 2000 kids which I’ve known since like 1st grade. I go to this small smart kids magnet skool with only like 70kids in the grade that is defiantly less open and fun. Some of the kids OCD about skool and are boring. A select few of them r wannabe mean/tough ppl b/c they probably feel helpless? If they try to boss me around I just laugh. The other group that do stuff is closed off to most kids of outsider status for various reasons. I am of outsider status even though I try not too...The other group just play video games. When I was a kid like 8, I won an x box in a raffle but my parents took it. I bought in to the propoganda about video games being bad, and I don’t really regret much as I am now 2 busy with welding and what not, but just shows some of the lack of freedom imposed. Hell my mom doesn’t even like me building stuff, thinks it’s a distraction. But I still do it during the day when she is out of the house. I garuntee if I didn’t build stuff as my hobby, I would have became one of those suicidal mental cases. I knew a kid in middle skool who never talked....Overall makes me pretty dam sad. Luckily I hack the system by copying hw during class and by finding out tests so I don’t have to do much work. I wouldn’t be able 2 handle the work crap they give us and the lack of friends simultaneously. Unfortunately never really interacted much in middle skool, so don’t really have those existing connections. The only reason I know most of this math stuff is b/c one thing going 4 me is whenever I see a big building like an airport or bridge I want to know why the architect and engineers made these choices. Like when I was 10, I would stare at the giant gausset plates in the big airports and wonder about the truss structures and what not. I kinda feel like I wasted a chunk of time at this new skool, Better luck next time... the only thing going 4 me is I have a few really good ideas for small biz/entrepreneurship Which would if I want allow me to retire really young like at 30 something. Overall though I feel like this was inevitable and somehow necessary in a crazy way 4 me to be what I’m supposed to be, whatever that is. At least it helps me sleep at night....