20 May 2016, 9:50 pm
Joe90 wrote:
I hated bells when I was at school. Those ugly-looking electric things that were fixed to the walls and still worked during power cuts. 
It was so hard to avoid being near a bell without looking really autistic. There were two ways to avoid being too near a bell when it was due to ring; holding your hands over your ears until it rang, or isolating yourself from the rest of your friends in the hallways. Then when you told people that you were just unhappy about the bell, they did not understand at all. In fact they thought it was a joke. Kids at school were so hyperfocused on each other, that they didn't have time to worry or anticipate a bell ringing, whereas that was my worst anxiety during school life. 
It was so hard to avoid being near a bell without looking really autistic. There were two ways to avoid being too near a bell when it was due to ring; holding your hands over your ears until it rang, or isolating yourself from the rest of your friends in the hallways. Then when you told people that you were just unhappy about the bell, they did not understand at all. In fact they thought it was a joke. Kids at school were so hyperfocused on each other, that they didn't have time to worry or anticipate a bell ringing, whereas that was my worst anxiety during school life. My schools just used a tone over the intercom for the bell like the one in this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwfeiF6H1E
They didn't use actual bells. And so I was never afraid of the bell at school.
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