What kids wrote in my eighth grade yearbook
Tuskawilla Middle School, 1997
I’ve been working on an essay about being addicted in seventh/eighth grade to a text-based multiplayer online role-playing game called GemStone III. The essay also charts my descent into autism, characterized by severe social anxiety. Part of my research involved looking at the two yearbooks I have from middle school. The seventh grade one has no writing in it from other kids. The eighth grade one had the following.
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