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This is the only comment I am going to address in this thread with firm disapproval, because it is the only one that is ignorant, lacks information, and seeks not to assist with my questions, but to be injurious.
While in high school, at age 16, I took custody and guardianship over my sisters, 4 and 6. We were a family together, and I raised them. I was a teenager, and I raised two children.
Three months after an unsuccessful suicide attempt in high school, I was the first woman to achieve our high school’s academic triple-crown- be awarded the top individual prize (Top Attorney, Top Advocate, Top Competitor) in our three academic activities- Quiz Bowl, Moot Court, and Mock Trial.
I am the proud owner of 13 Top Attorney awards from undergrad and law school, winning between one and five per year. I graduated my top-50 private undergraduate university with the highest GPA of any graduating student (though the school does not recognize rankings/valedictorian status- a shame). I received six full-ride scholarships to top-50 law schools, plus two offering actual payment of what amounts to a salary if I were to attend.
I am a registered tutor in CivPro, Contracts, and ConLaw I given my grades. I declined offers to tutor Torts and Property (because who the hell likes those?).
I am a published and paid author, a recognized speaker on disability awareness (before law school, because goodness knows you have to be perfectly neurotypical to be a lawyer), and a first place award owner at more than one legal theory academic research symposium, in more than one country.
Psychosis is a burden, no doubt. It is not fun. It is a backpack of rocks that has been strapped to me as I have to run with to keep up with others.
But I know I can surpass even the most stressed-out, pissed-off, college/law school student. Because although I am different, I have some beautiful gifts, despite my curses: an introspective understanding of who I am as a person that most people have no need to develop, memory skills so precise that in exams, I can pull up images of my textbook before my own eyes to look for answers, self-awareness that lets me seek help the instant I need it, planning that allows me to succeed in the worst of conditions. Bosses that will attest to my perfect attention to detail, professors that will attest to my impeccable cold calls, supervisors at non-law jobs who will say, they've never met someone quite like me.
I promise you: I know I am good. I know I am successful. I know who and what I am.
Now who the hell are you.
EDIT: Yes, I know, buddy. Downvotes, whatever. Recitation of my accomplishments has made you uncomfortable and calling you out on your ableism has, because you're a good person, made you feel unsettled, and somehow you're unaware that 1 in 3 law students suffers from a mental illness. Are they ALL unqualified to practice law? For goodness' sakes. Be the impartial, intelligent, fact-based person that you know you are, that makes YOU a successful lawyer. Don't sell yourself short by being poorly educated on mental health issues and attacking people asking for legitimate advice. I don't know you, but I know that sort of fallacious thinking and needless needling isn't you- you're a smart man/lady. Jump back on that train.
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1 SnapshillBot 2017-10-26
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1 the_black_panther_ 2017-10-26
This is the only comment I am going to address in this thread with firm disapproval, because it is the only one that is ignorant, lacks information, and seeks not to assist with my questions, but to be injurious.
While in high school, at age 16, I took custody and guardianship over my sisters, 4 and 6. We were a family together, and I raised them. I was a teenager, and I raised two children.
Three months after an unsuccessful suicide attempt in high school, I was the first woman to achieve our high school’s academic triple-crown- be awarded the top individual prize (Top Attorney, Top Advocate, Top Competitor) in our three academic activities- Quiz Bowl, Moot Court, and Mock Trial.
I am the proud owner of 13 Top Attorney awards from undergrad and law school, winning between one and five per year. I graduated my top-50 private undergraduate university with the highest GPA of any graduating student (though the school does not recognize rankings/valedictorian status- a shame). I received six full-ride scholarships to top-50 law schools, plus two offering actual payment of what amounts to a salary if I were to attend.
I am a registered tutor in CivPro, Contracts, and ConLaw I given my grades. I declined offers to tutor Torts and Property (because who the hell likes those?).
I am a published and paid author, a recognized speaker on disability awareness (before law school, because goodness knows you have to be perfectly neurotypical to be a lawyer), and a first place award owner at more than one legal theory academic research symposium, in more than one country.
Psychosis is a burden, no doubt. It is not fun. It is a backpack of rocks that has been strapped to me as I have to run with to keep up with others.
But I know I can surpass even the most stressed-out, pissed-off, college/law school student. Because although I am different, I have some beautiful gifts, despite my curses: an introspective understanding of who I am as a person that most people have no need to develop, memory skills so precise that in exams, I can pull up images of my textbook before my own eyes to look for answers, self-awareness that lets me seek help the instant I need it, planning that allows me to succeed in the worst of conditions. Bosses that will attest to my perfect attention to detail, professors that will attest to my impeccable cold calls, supervisors at non-law jobs who will say, they've never met someone quite like me.
I promise you: I know I am good. I know I am successful. I know who and what I am.
Now who the hell are you.
EDIT: Yes, I know, buddy. Downvotes, whatever. Recitation of my accomplishments has made you uncomfortable and calling you out on your ableism has, because you're a good person, made you feel unsettled, and somehow you're unaware that 1 in 3 law students suffers from a mental illness. Are they ALL unqualified to practice law? For goodness' sakes. Be the impartial, intelligent, fact-based person that you know you are, that makes YOU a successful lawyer. Don't sell yourself short by being poorly educated on mental health issues and attacking people asking for legitimate advice. I don't know you, but I know that sort of fallacious thinking and needless needling isn't you- you're a smart man/lady. Jump back on that train.
1 Ennui2778 2017-10-26
It's like legal /u/Darqwolf
1 Sigecaps23 2017-10-26
Probable severe personality disorder. Not a whole lot of effective medication for that
1 Mayocide_Now 2017-10-26
Thats most lawyers.
1 wwyzzerdd 2017-10-26
A psychotic alcoholic would make a great Lawyer TV Show. Someone contact Dick Wolf.
1 Senator_Chickpea 2017-10-26
I thought it was spelled Darq Wolff?
1 MooseHeckler 2017-10-26
So a show about regular lawyers?
1 pepperouchau 2017-10-26
Huh, I'm starting to think law school may have been my true calling