Aspie Distra's Page

I used to think peer pressure only existed where there were "cool kids." Because in high school, the only peer pressure you notice is the sort that makes you wear short skirts, drink, wear heaps of eyeliner, and get a boyfriend who's all muscles and no brains.But now that I've hit Year 13, all the cool kids, who want to party instead of work, have left school. Now, only the knowledgeable nerds and power-mad prefects are left. My first though was, YAY! NO MORE PEER PRESSURE! But I was way…

When I was 7 years old, my Mum got a new job at a teeny weeny, girls only, Christian boarding school in the freezing town of Stratford. I remember walking round the school grounds during the holidays and peeking in the windows. I remember being fascinated by the fake skeleton in the science lab, and wondering whether it was real. When I was 7 it was the year 2001, when if I recall correctly, the first Harry Potter movie was released. So as you can imagine, my first year in the little town of…

Every year my school has a competition called "House Music", where each house has to choose a theme and put on a performance based on that theme. My school has the traditional four houses, yellow, blue, green and red. The houses are named after four previous Head Mistresses, but to protect the privacy of my school I'm going to call them Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and... Gryffindork.…