That well-intentioned but disempowering behaviour is common in disability circles too – actually, any area where the beneficiary of action is assumed to be…

I put my name on the petition, but wheres the debates? could someone kindly link to it.

Me too, but a little more info would be helpful. And I wonder, in the light of steven's comments, how ACC policy on these things has been influenced by the Peter Ellis debacle,…

ACC are trying to drastically reduce funding and access for counselling available to visitims of sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse (Sensitive Claims.)
Please help the counsellors and therapists trying to fight these changes by signing…

I saw my primary school bully on the bus once, he'd just got out of jail ... sometimes the last laugh is a knowing smile out the window

heh.
I had the opposite happen.

Went to school with this real bad bastard.
Leather jacket, smoked, bullied, stole money from the…

High five, lady. That's awesome.

It's not in the least reprehensible to call someone out on their crappy behaviour. And you did it without roundly abusing her, showing more self-restraint that I'd be prepared to attribute to myself in such a situation.

Several times I've been utterly bewildered by running into someone I knew at school and having them greet me with what seems like genuine enthusiasm when all I can think about is how thoroughly unpleasant they were to me at a time when it might have mattered to me.

One…

Hey! I'm sure the word she used a lot was 'slut'.

Heh, you could've been talking 'bout me there then :)

A good school reunion will have lots of different events tailored to different needs and budgets.

Aye, Mine required $80 for one of the events, that put me off quickly. The paperwork that came with the invite showed all those who were dead.I only remembered a few people interesting who…

I think the last I heard was that she was in the halls of residence sharing a room with a complete bitch.

Hey! I'm sure the word she used a lot was 'slut'.

Paul Graham has already done the hard yards on why I won't be attending a high school reunion anytime soon.

I could say the same thing but for totally different reasons I suspect.

I wasn't a fan of childhood, or small towns. There are a few who I would like…

One of the things that contributed to my reluctance was that over the years I've noticed that when I go back 'home', I revert to how I used to be when I lived there.

That is something that gets worse in groups, I've found. They often revert to old mode.…

I enjoyed my school reunion. Partied up with friends I see every few years and gossiped about the ones who weren't there. It was good to catch up with some old friends and…

I just want to pick something up with a reasonable idea of whether it'll fit or not.

That would be nice. It's particularly an issue when you sit on the boundary between the regular and plus sized ranges.

I was surprised (pleasantly, in the first instance) to discover that, in some respects, some people haven't changed.

One of the things that contributed to my reluctance was that over the years I've noticed that when I go back 'home', I revert to how I used to be when I…

To be honest about my slight touch of hypocrisy here, I am sort of organising a university/KAOS reunion for early next year. It'll be twenty years we've all known each other, which just doesn't seem possible.

I can totally relate to this – my tramping friends from UofC days back…

make Emma wear

Good luck with that. :)

And I must have missed the purpose of this dress-up opportunity upthread.

Eventually? Yes. First Megan has to find me a dress, though, as I am clearly lacking one.

I'm on it. And will take advice from the room as to what we should make Emma wear.

As to reunions, I'm fundamentally nosy. So like to see what people are up to.…

It's true that it's easy enough to find…

The worst situation…

Is anyone else mentally adding '... and it feels so good' to the title of this post?

Um... guilty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2vvOPsiVdU

But in at least some cases the reason the nerds don't fit in really is that everyone else is crazy.

s/b: Fans are slans! Fans are slans! Fans are slans!

Glad all appears to be working OK, Emma.

I went to a high school reunion several years ago and I think my main motivation was to see if I'd still think the hot guys were hot and the people I thought were ick were ick…

As for reunions, I just don't really know. I have some very fond memories of school and some very unhappy ones. I wasn't part of the "in crowd" but I wasn't universally hated either (I think).

I'm kind of curious what…

The notion that your teen years are the best ones of your life and that you would want to sit around reminiscing about them is very odd to me

To be honest about my slight touch of hypocrisy here, I am sort of organising a university/KAOS reunion for early next…

Saw headline,...

"Oh, yes. There will be blood."

Frankly, I'd rather go to "Saw 5" than to a high school reunion.

Several times I've been utterly bewildered by running into someone I knew at school and having them greet me with what seems like genuine enthusiasm when all I can think about is how thoroughly unpleasant they were to me at a…

I know of a couple of people from my year at secondary school…

I'm definitely not a reunion person, but I did enjoy collecting reminiscences for the school history I helped compile. (...)

Oooooonssssllloooooooowwwwww!

Can we get signed copies of NSFW?

Eventually? Yes. First Megan has to find me a dress, though, as I am clearly lacking one.

Yay for Emma postage.

Guess she is not a zombie after all...
Can we get signed copies of NSFW?

I'm definitely not a reunion person, but I did enjoy collecting reminiscences for the school history I helped compile. When you've got an alumni that includes Trevor Mallard, Catherine Delahunty,…

This is precisely why I'm not on facebook: the prospect of a long, rolling high school reunion.

Don't friend them. Though you're probably better off without it anyway.

Succumbed to any shopping urges?

heh, I may have enlisted someone else to indulge my shopping urges for me.

Paul, you are a saint, and one of the reasons I've retained any sanity at all.

Best reunion ever: Grosse Point Blank.

Seconded. Real ones would just be a let down.

School reunions: you need that like a hole in the head.

Ahahahahahahahaa.

Best reunion ever: Grosse Point Blank.

the rest suck and I say that as someone who's never been to one.

But given the choice between a school reunion and brain surgery, Sharon was completely right. I will go to great lengths.

Totally. A complete no-brainer.

Kaaboomcha

His/hers, or somebody else's?

Heh. His. The twentieth, the twenty-fifth, the thirtieth *elementary school* reunion, blah blah blah. FFS, I'm nearly 35 years old. I finished school a month after I turned seventeen. I can hardly remember it, and what I can remember mostly sucked. Isn't it just a place…

I have an American friend who's always trotting off to high school reunions. I couldn't think of anything worse.

My mother was a school teacher. She LOVES reunions: if she'd been to fewer than twenty I'd be surprised. She was utterly flummoxed that I wasn't planning to go to mine.…

always trotting off to high school reunions

His/hers, or somebody else's?

There are a bunch of people out there who over the years have tried to make me join all sorts of high school former pupils groups and forcibly include me in their mailing lists – darn Internet. Luckily, living…

I have an American friend who's always trotting off to high school reunions. I couldn't think of anything worse.