Re: CHAT: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome

At 12:44 25/06/00 +0300, you wrote:
>>
>>I am depressive too (and diagnosed as such) and I know where it comes from
>>(bad experience in a military school, if anyone understands the French word
>>'bizutage'.
>
>    I think that an American English equivalent would be
>"hazing the Freshmen (1st year students)". If so, I experienced
>it, but at my (public, not military) school it was extremely mild:
> mostly amounting to things like selling the new kids tickets
> which they would need in order to take the scool elevators
> from floor to floor (and needless to say,
>there were no elevators of any sort in the school building! :-)  ),
>stupid stuff like that.
>
In France they usually sell toilet paper or things like that. Sometimes
it's even done for a cause. That's intelligent, not what I overcame.

> Actually it was so bad that I still don't remember everything.
>>When I came back from there (after one week in hospital), my parents hardly
>>recognized me).
>
>That's brutality, not hazing or initiation!
Tell that to the Army, not to me. I think they don't really see the
difference you know :/.

>I'm sad to hear that you suffered it.  :-(
>
Now it's okay. It just caused me a deep hatred to any army or military
thing. I think they lost more than I did with what they did. But it's true
that from then I'm now more fragile than I used to be.

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