[ahoyhere]

Wow, sounds like me, only more pathological.

I spent almost my entire school career seeing how much I could get away with, writing fake personal essays, falsifying scientific "evidence" (as if 7th grade science fairs matter), manufacturing fake "drafts" which were really my first and final version but deliberately messed up, doing my homework as the teacher came around to collect it. Manufacturing saccharine, bullshit, fake answers that teachers always swallowed. Reusing essays from freshman year of HS for university English class. (Haha.)

I rebelled against being forced to do so many stupid things, that it became a game. Nobody ever noticed, so I realized that I couldn't respect or listen to people I could fool and conquer so easily.

You can do it in non-liberal arts. It's still easy.

The trick is, you have to be smart enough to do the real work to fake it. You don't necessarily have to know the given facts, though.

[darkxanthos]

Sounds more like someone who needs to be special.

I was the same way in highschool. ;)

[ahoyhere]

Honestly, I wanted somebody to catch me so I could find someone I could trust and respect. I needed somebody like that in my life.

But it never happened. Go figure.

[dan_the_welder]

Ouch.

[ahoyhere]

shrug I'm more well-adjusted than almost anyone else, now.

Institutionalized schooling just hobbles anyone who doesn't fit the mold, one way or another.

Taking it seriously is one way. Taking nothing seriously is another.