Girl Brilliantly Shuts Down Every Teacher, Classmate And Parent Who Ever Called Her Stupid
With the odds stacked against you and everyone bringing you down, giving up seems tempting. But not for Phoebe. This Australian has been going through a lot while chasing her academic dreams, and she refused to let them go, embracing every difficulty life threw at her.
“Unfortunately I was bullied relentlessly for years,” Phoebe writes. “I just try use it as motivation.” She was shamed for being “too stupid” and being diagnosed with Dyslexia (a reading disorder), Dyscalculia (a difficulty in understanding numbers), dysgraphia (a deficiency in the ability to write), and ADHD (problems paying attention) surely didn’t help either. “Sadly, due to the harassment at school, I was too nervous to ever put people on blast or stand up for myself.”
Today, however, she doesn’t have to. The results of her persistent hard work are speaking for themselves. But don’t take my word for it. Scroll down to read Phoebe’s inspiring story she wrote herself!
One Australian girl has decided to shut down her bullies with hard work and here’s how it turned out
Mandatory selfie with the diploma for the books
Celebrating Phoebe’s achievement, people were relating to her heartwarming story
I don't understand the thinking behind "not letting a child sit beside her ". I will sit beside a hardworking and motivated person any day over someone who breezes through on intelligence and little work . It instills good work ethics motivation to work hard.
Some people think anything is contagious. My mother once got screamed at for being in a mall with cancer (no hair and an amputated leg). That kid was more likely to catch stupidity from her own parents than this girl.
I get ya! Same happened to us: some ignorant woman got all rude to my lil' sis, who is autistic. We were at the supermarket, and my sister just wanted to see this woman's purse, and she went all crazy yelling "no, no! don't touch me! go away!". Ugh... even the cashiers didn't like the way that woman acted.
Screamed by an adult ?? Wow! Can "ignorance is a bliss", be used in court as a valid defense against stupidity.
Royal_Eperor, yea, it was an adult and she had a child with her. The little girl smiled at my mom and the woman lost her mind. She screamed at my mom for coming to the mall "like that" and yelled, "You should be ashamed of yourself!!" as she snatched up the kid and ran away. I was a kid myself at the time and figured I would understand when I got older. I'm all grown up with kids of my own now and I still don't get it.
I'm not sure, I'm not a parent and I cannot speak for those people, but what comes to my mind is that since nobody knew about her dyslexia and all, maybe those parents thought she was "just a lazy, irresponsible girl who didn't take school seriously and just wants to waste her time". So, they thought that if their kid got sit next to her, she wouldn't let their child concentrate and pay attention in class. Maybe?
It is a possibility.Children cannot understand their own problems and their behaviour (symptoms) may vary, thus making it look like she is not concentrating. She does say she was diagnosed in college, so nobody actually knew in school.Blaming other parents won't be fair.So, yes maybe your hypothesis is valid. BTW fair warning, your comment may get downvoted, people are more interested in political correctness rather than factual.
Royal_Emperor : Yeah, I am aware of it. I've been downvoted some times just for expressing my honest, direct opinion or sarcastic comments. I don't like to sugar coat things. Thanks anyway for the warning! =)
the point was that she was not hardworking .... as somebody who loved math i can attest to the fact that sitting next to somebody who does not give a shit it's completely different to havening somebody that shares you passion next to you , not to mention that incapable people somehow always manage to be capable of making others feel bad they are not also stupid
I agree with Cassie and would only add some people (read: Parents) are just stupid and elitist. Instead of encouraging their child to be supportive and help the struggling student, they demand their little precious NOT TO sit near a person who struggles. And then w (in the USA anyway) wonder why younger generations and early to mid aged adults are so selfish and self-centric....it's just sad.
I have a friend who spent her entire life growing up in special ed classes. In high school, she asked her teacher where she should go to college so she could be a teacher, too. That teacher laughed at her and told her she would never go to college. I met her in college, she became a teacher, and now she owns and operates her own business. Don't let ignorant, judgemental people stand in your way.
plus she's in the cast of Game of Thrones....
she is? where? :O
It's a joke, as she looks a bit like Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa.
I don't understand the thinking behind "not letting a child sit beside her ". I will sit beside a hardworking and motivated person any day over someone who breezes through on intelligence and little work . It instills good work ethics motivation to work hard.
Some people think anything is contagious. My mother once got screamed at for being in a mall with cancer (no hair and an amputated leg). That kid was more likely to catch stupidity from her own parents than this girl.
I get ya! Same happened to us: some ignorant woman got all rude to my lil' sis, who is autistic. We were at the supermarket, and my sister just wanted to see this woman's purse, and she went all crazy yelling "no, no! don't touch me! go away!". Ugh... even the cashiers didn't like the way that woman acted.
Screamed by an adult ?? Wow! Can "ignorance is a bliss", be used in court as a valid defense against stupidity.
Royal_Eperor, yea, it was an adult and she had a child with her. The little girl smiled at my mom and the woman lost her mind. She screamed at my mom for coming to the mall "like that" and yelled, "You should be ashamed of yourself!!" as she snatched up the kid and ran away. I was a kid myself at the time and figured I would understand when I got older. I'm all grown up with kids of my own now and I still don't get it.
I'm not sure, I'm not a parent and I cannot speak for those people, but what comes to my mind is that since nobody knew about her dyslexia and all, maybe those parents thought she was "just a lazy, irresponsible girl who didn't take school seriously and just wants to waste her time". So, they thought that if their kid got sit next to her, she wouldn't let their child concentrate and pay attention in class. Maybe?
It is a possibility.Children cannot understand their own problems and their behaviour (symptoms) may vary, thus making it look like she is not concentrating. She does say she was diagnosed in college, so nobody actually knew in school.Blaming other parents won't be fair.So, yes maybe your hypothesis is valid. BTW fair warning, your comment may get downvoted, people are more interested in political correctness rather than factual.
Royal_Emperor : Yeah, I am aware of it. I've been downvoted some times just for expressing my honest, direct opinion or sarcastic comments. I don't like to sugar coat things. Thanks anyway for the warning! =)
the point was that she was not hardworking .... as somebody who loved math i can attest to the fact that sitting next to somebody who does not give a shit it's completely different to havening somebody that shares you passion next to you , not to mention that incapable people somehow always manage to be capable of making others feel bad they are not also stupid
I agree with Cassie and would only add some people (read: Parents) are just stupid and elitist. Instead of encouraging their child to be supportive and help the struggling student, they demand their little precious NOT TO sit near a person who struggles. And then w (in the USA anyway) wonder why younger generations and early to mid aged adults are so selfish and self-centric....it's just sad.
I have a friend who spent her entire life growing up in special ed classes. In high school, she asked her teacher where she should go to college so she could be a teacher, too. That teacher laughed at her and told her she would never go to college. I met her in college, she became a teacher, and now she owns and operates her own business. Don't let ignorant, judgemental people stand in your way.
plus she's in the cast of Game of Thrones....
she is? where? :O
It's a joke, as she looks a bit like Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa.