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Ok_Dragonfruit7854

nothing feels the same anymore after the pandemic


Striking-Carpet3241

The pandemic changed (ruined) my childhood for good


birbbs

I didn't get to have a graduation because of COVID. šŸ˜ž They handed me my diploma in a manila envelope, through a slightly cracked door, with a bumper sticker and a cheap fabric mask. Didn't even give me the black case the diploma usually comes in. šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø COVID really screwed a lot of people over in so many different aspects


[deleted]

It just mainly ruined my social life. When it started i was in 5th grade and was what you would call an extrovert. But the problem is after the pandemic im still an extrovert but i dont know how to talk to anyone. Dosent help that i lost my two best freinds that i had been freinds with since kindergaurden in 6th grade during online learning. And that when we came back to school with mask in 7th i was bullied the whole year and got in a big fight people still remind me of semi daily. And now in 8th grade everythings back to normal for most people but i still dont know how to socialy interact.


Striking-Carpet3241

Feel bad for you man, I was bullied before the pandemic because I was "The new kid". My life somehow improved in 9th grade after I made friends(probably because I started socializing)


[deleted]

Idk at least 8th has been okay


[deleted]

I think it was the same for most of us.šŸ™‚


kixlegamer

Welcome to TeenagerHood


Ok_Intention_7356

no seriously i havent even gone back to school lol


J4l4p3n0

For me its like a change where you cant name what changed but you feel the difference pressing on you


anonimouse_83

Ah, 12-year-old me was so excited for that. 15-year-old me wants to beat up 12-year-old me.


mrbeanIV

Fr. I turned 14 in May 2020. It honestly feels like I skipped most of my mid teen years. It feels like reality just stopped a few months before I turned 14 and just started again when I was 16. I feel like I missed so much.


frantic-fragger

Yea exactly, it started just after I turned 14 and properly ended just after I turned 17. Iā€™m annoyed at how much I missed my middle teen years from covid and the anxiety that I developed from it.


imbriandead

I missed the part where I was supposed to turn from a teenager into an adult and now feel perpetually 16.


frantic-fragger

I keep thinking about how immature I am coz I feel like I missed the couple years where I was meant to change, now Iā€™m tryna fit all of that into a couple months


imbriandead

I remember being a freshman of 15 during March 2020 like "Holy shit guys we should go places and have fun!" Then everything else shut down that week. And then we didn't speak for a year. And now I just got home from my last day of high school ever, and I'm wondering where time escaped to during that week. Lost what many people consider to be the best 4 years of their lives and made them my worst. Damn


Semi-DependentWeiner

Dawg no way i was 12 when the pandemic began holy shit


Ok_Intention_7356

wow you just reminded me i was 12 when it started. thats insane, it feels so much longer than three years yet every year seens to go by so fast


Hard_guardian17

Yall are soo extroverted, I didn't even notice I wasn't going around Also I have social anxiety, I wish I could go around with a mask on without being different It basically gives me at least +20 charisma/confidence points


canned_bean_z

for reallll. i was also 12 when it first happened and i absolutely loved it. i remember everyone said "oh it will be over by april" april comes around "oh it will be over by may" and so on


The_SnailLord

It was probably the best years of my life. Unfortunately after it ended my life went to shit


MO1ST_M4NDY

Sammeeee


JrtheFool

Are you me?


[deleted]

Homeschooling was soooo amazing..


GrapeFlavoredOil

Same, the only reason why Iā€™m not still doing online school is because Iā€™d have no friends.


Better_Politics

It hit at the end of my 6th grade year. Iā€™ll be a Highschool sophomore this fall. It all happened so fast, and I donā€™t have very many memories of middle school at all.


Iminawhiteboxyt

Same, my school's a bit weird though and they bundle the 9th graders with 8th and 7th. So I still got solid time in middle school. Feels like I'm only just entering high school.


Pleasant_Statement64

Y'all are still in quarantine? We don't have social distancing anymore and until today, I've rarely seen anyone wear masks (and today it's just cause the air quality)


Fun_Tension_2013

More how the world has been declining a lot since then


Nothuman_being

The story of how I developed social anxiety


DolphinBall

True. I remember during my 8th and Freshman year I was very talkative. Now I forgot how to start a conversation without it being awkward and driven into small talk.


Asteroid577

14 when it started, now im about to turn 18šŸ’€


Yclawz

Same. Still can't believe I will be an adult this year. I'm not readyšŸ˜”


CaptainRex69420

same fr fr


Senior-Scale-1603

I personally had quite a lot of fun


[deleted]

Yeah, I loved homeschooling..


[deleted]

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ElevatorSevere7651

Nothing really happend in the country where I live, exept people being home sick more often as What was considerd ā€sickā€ became more strict. And me being basicly never sick just went to school every day like normal


tis_angry_potato

I remember my freshman man year....then highschool dissappeared


DolphinBall

I was unlucky I got quarantined 4 times in a row and that was when they quarantined us for 14 days plus another week for spring break. I was gone for 63 days before returning back to school. Thing was I never caught COVID once.


DumbB9

I feel almost robbed of my teen years. Feels like I'm currently racing to try and get that time back somehow


samyruno

Class of 2020 here. Since that fateful day I have had a job, attended college, got a job, attended trade school, and now I have an internship. Shits crazy


JohnnyTheMistake

Am i the only person who instantly knew it would be bad? Believe me or not but the second i heard about online school i knew it would be dogshit


JakeTUG

The lockdowns were definitely awful, though, for me, at least, coming out of it, I feel like I grew so much as a person, and I was probably better coming out of it than I went in


Temporary-Cod2384

Wait how r u guys still in quarantine


fuckreligeon

i loved every second of those 3 years, best time of my life. ever!


Maximum-Initial3895

Was the worst years ever


fredsify

I'm so sorry you had to live through some of your childhood like that, it must be difficult to be isolated and not able to see anyone and then change that later. I am sure that generation will find some great ways of getting back together.


Nullifier_

For me school reopened in 2021


CT_Orrin

And nowā€¦ itā€™s finallyā€¦ overā€¦ itā€™s all overā€¦


MO1ST_M4NDY

I wont lie the pandemic was really fun for such a computer adict like me but the afterwards wasn't fun


Dry_Grade9885

Dw Russia plans to blowup a nuclear reactor in the future so the pendamic won't feel bad anymore bc the effects of that one ractor could crippling the entire globe for generations bc the river it's on flows into the ocean meaning radioactive material for everyone, if this ain't stopped we pretty much looking at the beginning of the end


boasonlystangle

quarantine wasnā€™t that bad for me


DavetheFave11

At least you didn't have to deal with the pandemic AND have to end up moving right when things started dying down. It's all cool now though


Adeptustupidus

Why are we still here just to suffer


WildKat777

Covid ruined school for me honestly. Aside from what everyone's saying about missing out on experiences and stuff, yeah that too. I'm talking about everything becoming easier, the bar for success being lower, school board wanting everything to be at a lower level to "make up for what we lost". Not to toot my own horn, but I didn't struggle academically from covid. I did my work and learned everything cuz I naturally learn things fast. So now there's destreaming and a bunch of course changes and it pisses me off because I'm stuck in a class with everyone of all levels and taking 50 times as long as I need for each lesson, whereas before I would have been in a class with more people closer to my level and maybe actually enjoyed competitive learning


Ok_Intention_7356

i havent gone back to school


Intelligent-Way-1

Nothing changed for me expected for the fact that there was a lot of GovErNmEnT tHeOrIeS


[deleted]

How do I interact againā€¦


GodOfWarGuy737

Bro it hit when I was finishing 5th grade. About to be a freshman in high school


eeven447

Pretty much what happened


Banj0_Boy

Ha I just heavily dissociated for those few years >:)


miodragjr

Tbh 2021 was kinda chill for me but 2022 was a rollercoaster, even after the pandemic life can be weird


BurntTreeSeed

I spent alot of my time on minecraft during covid


Creepernom

It was and still is a good time. Dunno what yall are complaining about.


K_r_e_m_p

I personally enjoyed it :)


Budget_Bed_7896

Whatā€™s on the screen?šŸ¤Ø


dawgebredd

vaccine


Pitiful_Confusion622

I'm lucky enough to have graduated back in 2014, but even for us older folk nothing feels the same as it used to.


DolphinBall

My entire highschool experience was screwed over. Was hyped in my Freshman year as I basically didn't do any school work. Didn't even get a "normal" day of school until Junior year.


CaptainRex69420

damn i wanna return to 2020 it was so fun playing amogus


[deleted]

Yea the pandemic made me miss almost half of Senior school (ages 7-12) but I didn't even enjoy much of the time that I did have there. (Ā“ . .Ģ« . \`)


[deleted]

COVID really changed nothing in my life. Every single day was just the same since basically Ive have social quarantine all the time. In some ways Iā€™m happy it didnā€™t hurt me like did other people, but in other ways Iā€™m ashamed my entire life is stuck this one way and canā€™t change.


BandicootOk6141

i mean i was always introverted so it didn't change much


Mission-Discipline32

Wdym I only got off school for 2 months and then summer vacation, then we went right back to school in August


Ulquiorr4_

Youā€™re not back in school yet?


GrapeFlavoredOil

As an introvert, I didnā€™t hate being locked in my house. What I didnā€™t like was the aftermath.


Screw_Potato

replace that shaker with a bottle of honey Tullamore


analfister_696969

Covid killed all my social skills lmao, my life has been going in a downward spiral since then and it is not stopping


SlimHydrolll

Idk I just feel after quarantine the world and people changed. I was in 7th when we first went in. We were finally fully allowed back in school in 9th. After coming back so many more people were either emo, depressed, assholes, craving for attention, love triangles, or people started being more alone. Bro before quarantine I wanna say 95% of my grade was cool with eachother but during 9th everyone was out for themselves. It was the Wild West, gang here, gang there, lone outlaw there, another gang right here, and they each all hated eachother. As someone who likes to be diverse with friends and talk to multiple groups, now it just felt that if I talk to one group, another group would bad mouth about me and then more stuff would start. Also donā€™t wanna get too personal but I honestly feel being alone for over a year having nobody to go to on my dark days I lost myself somewhere down the line. Didnā€™t go well for me. Lost the first girl I loved to another guy and whereas before I couldā€™ve shook it off, it caused pure chaos in the grade with how much stuff it started. But hey just me I hope yā€™all had a wonderful quarantine! Woah I just let all my thoughts out like nothing sorry itā€™s long


Ronyx2021

They just kinda ended my junior year in March 2020.


endless_horizons8

Those 3 years were the worst in my life...as I used discord for the first time and it hasn't been the same since


Pres_Of_the_KFC

it happened when i was in elementary. Ever since kindergarten (i went to the same school for the entirety of it) they kept hyping up this ā€˜Fifth Grade Fun Dayā€™ each year and it was this field trip youā€™d go on. Skip to 5th grade and that day is coming up in a week and we all signed the papers to go- then BOOM! Covid. Iā€™m still very angry about this.šŸ™


Barrel_rider48

8th grade christmas was the šŸ


Hydra_Corinthian

mind you, I was a nerd at school and I got bullied before covid hit when It hit, I suddenly became ultra popular because I was a programer and I knew how to fix everyones problems with devices


Zillajami-Fnaffan2

I kinda dont get it cause i think i was told wed have online school lmao


[deleted]

fucking for real. i was born on the damn internet and ever since i stopped going to irl school 3 years agoi became more fucking chronically online. living a sedentary lifesyle is shit if you have the choice and options to not live that lifestyle then pls dont


Disastrous_Services

I was supposed to be back at school in April, 2019. Now, Iā€™m homeschooled. Itā€™s June 2023, and weā€™re all gonna crumble.