Criticisms in my Yearbook

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Just something to share. In my 8th grade yearbook (one of the years I went to Catholic School). I had a good amount of people in my class sign it even though a good number of them gave me a hard time.

Alot of them had the same things to say: I need to talk more. I need to smile more. I need to do this. I need to do that. Blah blah blah.

I guess it would've killed some of these people to say "Hey Mary, have a good time in high school" or "Hey Mary have a nice summer."

And you know where most of these criticisms in my yearbook came from?...the people who were closer to me..friends or associates rather than the more distant peers in my class.

Just a peak into the hell I endured before my AS diagnosis. I swear I have a right mind to find these people on Facebook and just tear the living stuffing out of them if only there was any benefit to it.

It sucks to have to look back into this book and find that everyone is to focused on how to fix you instead of treating you like a human being.

I guess they meant well, since they where your friends/associates and all..

But I do agree that a positive note could have been nice.

In my middle school yearbook someone wrote along with their signature:

"I don't understand you"

I wish I were kidding.

Someone wrote in mine 'I have no idea who you are ... but good luck?'

I didnt want people to sign mine in HS but some classmates/friends found it when i left to the bathroom and signed it/wrote things. Very random things but nothing like those.

I didn't do the yearbook thing.

I was goth before goth was the name. I wasn't going to spend $25 for a book full of pictures of people I didn't care about. High school is still the only time in my life where I can't remember a single name of anyone I went to school with. I'm friends with people from Elementary School, Junior High (Middle School) and then College. No High School.

in my experience and memory of it, the yearbook signing was only cool in junior high. and the junior high signatures were all in good fun or just random s**t from even the cool kids. too bad they all turned into complete a**holes for four years. the greatest one was "15 years from now, you will wonder who the hell is jim shores?" i remember him, vaguely. but in high school, i didnt give a s**t to get autographs.and i cant remember it being a big thing with my class either. not that i even had friends from my class, so f**k them.

The only time I ever did the yearbook thing someone wrote, " You suck," I could never figure out if they were joking or not.

I know what you mean. I was too shy to ask for signatures in my yearbook, and didn't really want them anyway. Then when I started singing in choirs more often in high school, people really wanted to sign the old book. I would be walking down the hall with it, and I would feel the YB yanked from my hands, turn, and find some random and attractive girl signing it while looking afraid to be caught signing it. Every single girl that signed it left something like this: "You have an amazing voice! I am so sorry I was mean to you and wish that I had taken a chance and gone out with you like I wanted to. Keep singing and remember me (cute quiet guy with the nice voice)." The funny thing is this: I don't remember a single one of them because they were so cruel throughout high school. Others would sign it, "You are too quiet and need more stage presence for that voice. Best of luck..." I eventually got tired of it, and threw the damned thing away. Most of the girls that signed it like that (that I remember being so hot) are now ugly as sin, and so big they need two seats on an airplane. Karma is a cruel b***h.

I never bought a yearbook. I didn't understand why anyone would want one.

I never got criticism in my year book and I didn't have many sigs anyway. Only my freshman and senior year had sigs. My other two have none.

What's funny is one girl who signed my yearbook who hadn't been nice to me off and on wrote nice things and said it was great getting to know me all these past years. Now she is on my facebook.

Another girl wrote she never thought I was going to stay to graduate but she was glad I did.

Another funny story, this one girl who tried messing with me by trying to convince me she has a twin sister and she doesn't live with her also wrote how she enjoyed getting to know me the last couple of years and that I am a great person and I put a smile on her face.

I think some people do actually grow up right when they graduate.