Stereo(effing)typical... x_X;

[Tekirai offline]

K, alright. I'm just a normal 7th grader who doesn't want to get involved in anything and just wants to move along in life. I like stuff and have my hobbies and special skills, The biggest being, well, I guess you could call me a 'gifted student but not a junior Einstein' or something similar, but...being smart.

I hate it. Hate. Hate. HATE IT. Every time I'm told to go work with other people in groups, regardless of who they are, they always go 'Yo Tess, you're the smart one. Do all that for us, okay? Thanks'. This has happened soso many times, and I've had enough for it. Everyone expects me to know EVERYTHING, but I DON'T. I'm absolutely crap at Technology (the full class name is Technology and Design. Design, yay. Tech, nay.) and everyone in my class sees that and doesn't care. I'm a fast runner, but have the stamina of a lima bean. Everyone sees that too. But everything else everyone says I'm 'brilliant' at, and it bugs me. And I mean, really really bugs me. I only have a handful of flaws in my academic ability, yet everyone sees me as smart, a know-it-all, and a nerd with no life. I've endured being called all of that since November, but I've gotten used to it now and I'm rarely called by it anymore.

ICT is my best subject, and I'm always- ALWAYS asked for help. Actually it's mostly 'I can't be a**ed doing this. Tessa, could you type it out for me?' and that subject is where I'd be most vunerable to having a temper implosion. Teki will never be a teacher with that attitude. Another thing is that I'm being stereotyped way too much. If some guys are talking about a comedy that played the night before that I saw, I try to include myself in the discussion, and I get kicked out like some old broom or something. All of the boys in my class hate me to hell and back. Well, except one, who can really p*** me off sometimes if he does it right.

Him: So, are you going to the School Radio Station club after school?
Me: Nah, it's not my thing. I'd go if it were something like-
Him: A Sci-Fi radio station? HAHAHA!

^ A discussion from yesterday. I'm not a fan of Sci-Fi, but I like it a little. It makes me feel frustrated the way I can socialise with the majority of the girls in my year and some in the year in front of me, but the boys? Kaput. Access denied. One of them actually came up to me and said once: 'Geez, Tessa. You act like you have a grudge against all of us boys. Lighten up and don't be such a geek!' Well, I'm sorry. I thought I already WAS a geek. Stick to what you stay, blockhead! I do NOT have a grudge on ANYTHING. There's also the fact that my friends suspect that I have a crush on someone at school, and I don't, since none of them like me so I have no reason to like them back. At all. Yet they think I'm lying. Every time I say 'I don't fancy anyone' they always take in my facial expression and tone of voice and judge whether I'm lying or not. And it always turns out to be that I'm 'lying'.

Well, I decided to go to an all ability school in the first place, I guess I'll have to live with it. I really like it besides the boys in my class who are all bas-... you know, it's a nice place. The teachers are really nice to me and since my brother is in it too I have good connections with the music teacher. All of this piled up on my conscience makes me act like the way I do today- happy-go-lucky and random with a sense of humour. Why? 'Cause I have all you guys at LF, Fanfiction.net and my own friends and it balances me out and screws all that other stuff to next Tuesday.

I don't actually need help or anything that badly, it's just something I needed to let out after all this time. That and nobody in real life would listen to me talk that long. xD Thanks for reading everyone, it really helps me to think you came and read all of this. ^^

[Darkborn offline]

I've got some Modified Geometry, can ya do it for me? KThx.


It's ok, I got the same problem with me, I am smart and I get all of the freaking attention that I don't want.

[Jeremified offline]

Yep. Join the club. I'm actually a lot like you... I'm great at running for, like, a 15-second span, and then I pass out. (Not really... that would be if I ran for 2 minutes. xD) I sympathize with you! I think a transfer to a smarter school would be the smart idea.

[Zaeryth offline]

Ah, I know how you feel... I get labeled "geek" and "brainiac" a lot because I am on the "Nerd Squad" aka Scholastic Bowl. I also get picked a lot on projects because the other person wants to kick back and relax while I do all of the work because they know I value my grade, and they know I will do all of the work if it means saving it. However, pretty much everyone in my school is super-smart (although it is a public school). And a lot of the boys there are jerks, as well. They just can't get over themselves!

[mooshie offline]

know what yo mean, only I don't get good grades, however people know I'm intelligent (it was found out when I was tested for ADD, ADHD, ect...) so they ask for my help (AKA to do it for them) a lot, my response, while containing lots of colorful vocabulary unacceptable outside BKO, also gets across the point that I'm not being paid so, unless you can pony up some dough it ain't hapenin'

[codeTONY offline]

I'm with you, but for me its a little different. Most of the time, I'm always doing things for other people, so I try to work alone. Math happens to be like my best subject. I'm slow, but I'm alway right.

And my stamina? Zip. I almost threw up after our "mile" run.

However, the only real difference is that I'm lazy cuz I'm so slow. I can't work for like an hour straight without wandering off. What I really hate is a lot of repetive work. Why TF do we have to do 50 problems? I get it!

Just know you're not alone.
ToNy

[Jeremified offline]

Yeah... by the way, on Wednesday, I won 2nd place in the chess club- I lost to some 8th grader who also got a trophy for MVP and had been playing for 9 years in a row at our school. It's official, people, I've joined the geeks. xD;;

[Skipperdee offline]

This must happen everywhere, because it happens to me too. Whenever I'm in class and the teacher asks a question, every one turns and looks at me. Even the teacher. For example, yesterday in history we were discussing the draft, which got us on the subject of the Vietnam war and someone asked how long the Vietnam war was. The teacher said, "hmm. I don't know. Christina, do you know?" Well how am I supposed to know? I don't study the Vietnam war. Even worse is when you get a test or assignment back and the kid next to you gets a higher score than you and he stands up and does a victory dance and says "HA! IN YOUR FACE!!" this has happened to me I don't know how many times. It's extremely annoying.
As for your problem with slackers during group work, what I've always done with them is just not contribute to the group effort, put the shoe on the other foot and all. This might not always work, as sometimes you get paired with apathetic people who don't care about their grade. Sometimes notifying the teacher helps. I did this once when I was working in a group of four and one girl did nothing and I mean NOTHING so the two other girls and I went to the teacher, feeling like horrible snitchers, but it worked out in the end because that girl got taken out of our group and had to work by herself.
Anyway, my point is I know how you feel. I don't know what to tell you about boys- I'm in grade 8, and I can't say they've matured much by them, so what can you do? Hopefully things will improve for you, and best of luck.

[4lpha0mega offline]

It can also be bad when it happens to other people...
My freind/rival gets stereotyped like that a lot, and its quite fraustrating for me, as even if i beat him in math tests and stuff, everyone thinks he's smarter (hopefully that'll change when i get a certificate and he doesn't in assembly next week )

See i have the problem of being undervalued, the opposite of most of you by the sounds of it.
(oh, and the veitnam war went on for 18years, although america wasnt in it for nearly that long)

[Tom Bone offline]

I feel your pain. Everyone calls me Einstein and expects me to do everything! My suggestion is to tell them off.

[lyokodragoness offline]

Wow, I was surprised when I was in the same situation in you, but then I read everyone else's replies....

EVERYONE wants me to do their homework for them. I politely say no, but if they persist, I tell them off. Also, because EVERYONE pretty much hates me / holds a grudge against me because they think I'm better than them at everything. Ooh, so I've never gotten a C on my report card! I was on the Student Council! I was in the Spelling Bee! Look pal, there will always be someone better than you and I, so shut up and leave me alone.

I get good grades because I don't slack off and actually study. I was on the Student Council because... well, everyone liked me for some reason! I never even wanted to be on there in the first place! I was in the spelling bee because I have a good sence of vocabulary, but my oral skills and spelling things out to people SUCK! I always think things over and have diffuculty spelling things, I'm much better writing out words, instead of spelling them out. It just comes to me when writing, talking, not so much. Pressure really gets to me, too. Besides, I PHAILED citywide anyway. [/mini-rant]

And yes, in groups, everyone says "lol ur the smart one so u can do it all, we can watch, lol" (not exactly like that, though ._. ) and I say I won't do anything if they don't all pitch in. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but meh.
My stamina is nonexistant, I hate Physical Edu. and sports, and I love computers and technological stuff. I've been researching them throughly now. I have the geek appearance: Harry Potter - esque glasses, pens sticking out of my pockets, ect. And of course the good grades. Let's face it, I scream GEEK. And who cares? Not me - I AM a geek, and that's who I'll be. (It runs in the family, too.)

So, as a remedy for your problem, politely say you won't do anything in groups without everyone pitching in, and If not in a group and you'd rather not help anyone with a test/homework, just say no. If they keep asking, as Tom Bone said, tell 'em off.

[The BB of C offline]

I read that whole first post. Don't think too highly of what these kids say. Even if it does tick you off, just brush it off. Do you realize the chances of them seriously meaning half of this crap that they say? Deep down, it's all jokes, and none of it is worth getting upset over.