Hey Pandas, What Troubles Did You Have In Middle School?

I, for one, started using alcohol and smoking cigarettes, got mixed in with a bad crowd, started skipping school, and grades started to drop. It was bad, but I graduated and went to a university. Goes to show that you can still recover, no matter what happens at that sensitive time (7th-8th grade).

In middle school now, and I have several problems. First of all, the kids in gym often run a mile around the track, no biggie, but they aren’t allowed to dress out so a lot of these kids are running in sweatshirts and jeans in 80 degrees. This might be just a Covid thing idk. But most of the kids are walking and/or on their phones and/or chatting with their friends.

Number twi! That kids swear. So. Loud. My ears bleed. There’s this one kid in my bus that threatens people with his drumsticks and stands on seats and crawls over to other seats on the backs of the seats and whacked the ceiling with his drumsticks once too. I try my best to ignore him but he lives nearby so he tried to sell my mom overpriced spray paintings just as we were going to leave for XC (cross country).

Problem 3!
Kids aren’t expected to do enough work anymore. In my French class, we were supposed to research a country that had French as its official language and everyone else wrote a ten page google slideshow. I literally wrote a 15- something page google slideshow and a 7 page essay. I had a lot of anxiety because I was worried I didn’t have enough. I had better get extra credit.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I was overweigh and grew up poor. I was treated so poorly. 30 years later, I keep in touch with no one I went to school with. Screw them all.

Self-confidence. Still struggle with that.

I had a crush on my friend and when I told her about it we started going out-- for a day. then she said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it was just a joke!", and then she acted like nothing happened, except every once and a while she asked me to stop being mad at her.

I was home schooled, both parents gone all the time, had no one to ask for help when I got stuck. If I took a test, I would usually fail it, and get yelled at. I was so glad when I started high school and wasn't doing home school anymore.

I had little confidence in 7th and 8th grade. Also I was bullied

While I now have 22 years of sobriety- when I was in junior high I was a drunk. Carried booze in my book bag - was scared about getting caught. Never did.

Bullying. I am a half Ojibwe Canadian who went to school in a southern US state in which the KKK had their headquarters. I also developed early and generally finished my schoolwork early and got along well with the teachers. That of course made me seem like a brown noser.

Two words: teacher’s pet. All the “popular” girls despise me for it, but I despise them too. I am generally one of the smartest students in the classroom, but I don’t brag about it. However my teachers often refer to me as an example. I speak with them often, such as “hi how are you” or “have a good day”, but usually someone’s always giving me the stink eye. But I have fun. Because it’s middle school. And by God, s**t happens fast. I try to enjoy it as best as I can, but maybe that’s why everyone hates me in the first place.

Still in middle school, so these are the problems I face currently:
- Depression
- Anxiety (mainly Anticipatory Anxiety)
- Procrastination
- Homework/Assignment Overload

I’m in 7th grade and troubles is agriculture

I got Grabage and half full milk cartons thrown at me everyday! I also got called the F-slur so much.

I went to 4 different schools between 6-8 grade. Moved from my home country to the US and then moved from one state to another. Had to learn a new language, was having numerous painful dental surgeries, and my parents got acrimoniously separated. Oh, and puberty.

I’m in eighth grade and my troubles consist of this girl named Trista spreading rumors around to everyone close to my girlfriend that she hit on her (Chase is my girlfriend name)Chase absolutely did not I was there and Trista told Chases girlfriend and Aki (chase ex) broke up with her and then we started dating,I love my girlfriend with gender dyshphoria (she think she trans but not sure) I have gender dyshphoria as well

I didn’t have pocket money to buy snacks as my friends used to do. My mom used to pack me a lunch for school. Also, I was struggling with the way I look and that shattered my whole confidence and till now that inferiority complex haunts me.

Pre-Algebra

Back in 2001, I was barely a 6th grader. Still a full on kid. Mentally and emotionally. I was confused as to why I had to start worrying about shaving my legs as boys would make fun of me O_o. My legs were not even like hairy, hairy, you could barely see the “normal” body hair. So I guess you can say I was forced to “mature” to make the bullying stop.

Sexual abuse at home. When shared with a teacher, she shamed me. This was in the '70's.

Having an identity crisis.
3rd and 4th grade I liked boys then
5th grade I was chasing after my cousin
6th grade I had a crush on who I thought was a boy who might actually be genderfluid.

Wearing a bra that feels so tight but, I can’t prove I need actual cup bras.

Don’t forget acne under a mask. My skin is so irritated it’s peeling off, pls help.