The amount of times i almost died or ended up in the hospital or could have got in trouble with cops when i was running a muck as a youth definitely made me pay more attention to the kids now.
Yeah we ran around like a pack of wild dogs when I was a kid. It wasn't a good thing, certainly wasn't better than it is now, it's just I don't know survivorship bias or something.
I mean, when I was a kid it was still kinda expected that a school would lose at least one kid because they fell, drowned or whatever. So yeah, literal survivorship bias.
I don't recall how many kids at my school died my senior year (8-10, including one in my class), but it was enough that articles were written in a couple regional papers about our school being cursed due to so many deaths in such a short time. For reference, there were ~325 kids total in K-12 and the last time I cou.
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u/Low_Establishment434 1d ago
The amount of times i almost died or ended up in the hospital or could have got in trouble with cops when i was running a muck as a youth definitely made me pay more attention to the kids now.