Social Skills

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Tags:

• junior
• high
• school
• bullies
• social
• dynamics
• alienation
• maladjustment
• life
• lessons

[gobblegobblechew]

off subject

The quality of your video is amazing. Picture quality.

I see you are using a Mac. Is that the major factor? Could you help me to understand your video settings?

[MetaBob]

My setup:

I don't have a webcam. I use my Canon GL2 camcorder, recording at 30 fps progressive in NTSC DV (720x480 pixels). I do all my editing at that resolution, using Final Cut Pro. Then, before uploading, I downcovert to 320x240 MP4, two-pass H264 compression, using VisualHub, which is great and you can buy off the web for $23 bucks.

Whatever your camera, though, one simple way to make your vids look better is to shoot with as much light as possible.

[johnsmdm]

your story is a story of probably millions..

[flam3srock]

Oh my fucking god... this is basically my junior high story. From the creepy looking kid, to the pseudo-friends in grade 7, to no friend in 8.. to the weight loss.. to being 'scary', to people thinking I was a stoner. The whole self-conscious/healthy person dichotomy. The high school 'coming out of isolation wish'. The main differences between us are age and height.

[GetTheHook]

Thanks for sharing your story. This takes a lot of balls. 

[jaihu420]

WOW Great video I know where you`r coming from.

Keep up the videos

[electromikey]

I somehow watched all of that even though i didn't plan to, nice video. I like the bit where you say that the bully, the day after being beaten up by you, wanted to be friends with you. I find it so hard to make friends, i guess i should try this tactic (it's one of the few i haven't tried xD

[jessymgm]

it breaks my heart to hear your story, probably because i relate to it, buy hey check Abraham Hicks, great life perspective....

[MrMathieuLucas]

The 3rd experience that formes you has isolated itself and now seak you to come closer to this 3rd thing, but it evoids your reaching out ...

It's time to exept the bully as your equel.

[zowni25]

@zowni25 people and because of that we always were in the mindset that things would be better.. to this day i wondered why i always was so much happier back then i still have no idea why. perhaps it was cause we didnt know how everyone viewed us or cause we didnt know we were exactly that different from others.. still i know at some point ill have to force myself to start talking to others more outward.. I mean i have a group of 10 really close friends but i want to expand to others hopefully

[zowni25]

Its so odd isnt it... I'm Listening to Your video so far im 9 minutes in and from what you say it reminds me exactly of what junior high/middle school was for me 6 years ago was like.. me and my only friend basicly were in our own little world . I think we even gave many of the kids who treated us badly just as much crap as they gave us, even though we didnt even know what was going on.. It hurts flash forwarding eight years ahead knowing now how hard it was cause i couldnt socialize with most

[smo1765]

lol man Im right back in grade school myself

[FleshMob]

And then I deciced to do something about it, becasue I looked skinny, I started going to gym, wokring out. Nothing, maybe 1-2 pounds. I forgot about the whole thing. Then, after moving in other flat, I decided that I was going to sleep less, I forced my self to sleep maximum 10 hours, I really slept less then before. And, I measured my self....I gained 15 pounds. It really struck me, that story of yours, maybe sleep is somehow connected to diet, weight... weird, really weird.

[FleshMob]

It is interesting story that lost 20 pounds over short period of time, while sleeping 12 hours a day. I had a similar experience. I started sleeping 10-12 hours a day when I moved to Belgrade, and I lost about 10 pounds. I continued sleeping that much for about 7-8 months, weight stayed the same.