Field Day is Trash (and really needs to be optional)

     My high school generally is geared around helping neurodivergent kids because we have a large population in there. But even with that, they are absolute shit at it. My prime example is Field Day last year. It was the end of the school year we had a whole week of useless activities. Monday we had all our classes, but short. Tuesday was make-up final day, where I didn't have to go because I am actually an okay student who does her finals. Even when I want to die. But that's most of the time, you can't really disappear from school cause you're a bit suicidal. Then the dreadful day came. 

    Wednesday, AKA Field Day. They took everyone in the high school (on an 85 degree day) to a Field where everyone got to play fun sports. Luckily they were somewhat chill and let people sit in the worst shade possible. It was shade, yes, but the structure we were under trapped heat and didn't really help at all. The shade was just as hot as the field, but with less sunburns. It's like we were a colony of ants and our ant hill was being destroyed by a little kid and everyone was fucking dying. But the introverts escaped and got eaten by an anteater. It's faster and maybe a little better, but still fucking sucks. (Sidenote: You could see the heat rising on the field, that's how fucking hot it was. And they expected us to be happy and be a community. The introverts were fucking miserable.) 

    So my friend and I finally got fed up with the possibility heat stroke and asked the principal if we could walk back to school. And she said no. And then I decided to rip her face off. But just in my mind because I am too scared of jail to commit any crimes. And I feel murder would just make the day worse. Though my friend and I were both very close to yelling at her about everything she has done wrong as a principal. But as the people pleaser I am, I can't yell at anyone. And so we went back to the torture chamber of heat. 

    Until our friend group collectively said "fuck it" and calmly walked to the other side of the field into a nice shaded area with trees. And it was like 15 degrees cooler, it was insane. There was a large log swing, a tire swing, and a weird seesaw that was really just a gigantic piece of wood on top of another, thinner piece of wood. That seesaw was so unbelievably fun. I would jump onto the other side of the wood my short friend was on and launch them into the air. Unfortunately we were not allowed in the woods because why the fuck would we, honestly. But no matter how many teachers told my friend group to leave, we didn't. We were done with the heat and there were physical activities we actually enjoyed in the woods. We had our own Field Day in there, which was super freeing.

    But my best friend and I, as the neurodivergent rebels we are, got restless in the woods. Yeah, we loved it, but we just wanted to go back to school, in a nice cool building. So about 15 minutes before we were supposed to start cleaning up, my friend and I made our way towards the exit. And we heroically went back to school because everyone else was about to leave anyway. Except that's not what happened because we're both funded students and didn't want to get in trouble (Funded students are students who's tuition are paid for by the county. Don't ask me why. If we get in trouble too much we can have our funding pulled). So we just waited at the exit while everyone else cleaned up because it really wasn't our mess. Then after an eternity (15 minutes) we finally got to go back to school. The cool building was beautiful. 

    My friend and I then complained about how stupid our school was. We were both dead from the day so we just started using our electronics and died. Then I opened YouTube and my brain exploded. The Jurassic World: Evolution 3 trailer was leaked a couple hours before it was supposed to be announced. I then lit the school on fire in joy. But again, only in my mind, because I was too tired to do arson. In reality I just nerded out to my friend who was way too tired to listen. But I didn't care, they're my best friend, they don't get a say when I am a nerd or not and they can just deal with it. (Is "nerded" a word? The squiggly red line doesn't seem to think so, but it's a great word. It's the word nerd, but a verb. Honestly I don't know why it's not a word.)

    All in all, Field Day is ableist shit. They took a bunch of neurodivergent kids to somewhere they are going to suffer. And the staff didn't care because they only want to cater to the extroverted sporty kids. They were basically saying "Fuck you, you matter less than the kids who make us look good." to us. Which, rude and you shouldn't be implying that to the suicidal one. That's called just being a bad person. They don't think about the introverts at all, we just deal with the mess. This disappointingly isn't the only example of my school being ableist, but this is the best one.

Anyway this is Da. She was the first cat at my Cat Socializer internship. She was super super sweet and very playful despite her eye being all infected. She didn't really seem to mind her eye, she was just a pretty tortoiseshell. She got adopted and I am so happy that she was. I hope her new humans take care of her and love her well. She is a great cat and a little stupid. But still really sweet. And only a little stupid, like normal cat levels of stupid... maybe a little more.

(Yes there will be a cat in almost every post. Until I run out of cats... Shit.)