Im trying, but i dont think it works. My brother and sister have set too high a standard. Im going to keep at it though.

Thanks :) I'm really trying, I've just felt so down for the past week and a bit, and I'm waiting for it to improve again.

ANYWAY:

WGMG: Summer. I fucking hate the heat. Working in a warehouse with no air circulation in 35+ degrees is horrible :lol: My body's heat regulation systems are terrible.

Dw I'm not telling you to harden up and that you'll get over it - I've been in the same place as you and I sympathise.

Just talk to them again, and make sure you specify EXACTLY what needs to change, and how it needs to change. Write it down for them if it helps. If your family mean that much to you, then you'll be able to work through it, and I bet they'd prefer having you around rather than not.

Yes, I'm 18. I know, I've got my whole life ahead of me, things get better, one day I'll look back and realise how silly all of this is, blah, blah, blah. I've heard it all before, but it's of little comfort in the moment.

WGMG: I had a good long chat the other day with my family and we left there thinking we worked through the issues. I swear i would throw myself infront of a train for my family, id do anything for them, but it seems nothing changed. I feel so ostracised, perhaps theyd be better off without me and i should go back to zims or something.

What are you, 18, yea? In the 2 years since I was 18 my life has changed so drastically that I'm basically a new person. Friends come and go and you as a person will continue to evolve constantly

I highly doubt it, I don't think I'll survive in the "real world".

A few members have had this happen. Once you get out in the 'real world' you make better friends.

My "close friends" all ditched me pretty quickly.

The whole point of school holidays is to get the fuck away from those people anyway :lol:

Everyone always says that after school, i dont even bother with people when they used to tell me. I knew who my close friends were and i stuck with them, thats all that mattered to me.

I wouldn't even mind that, because then I could pretend that someone actually cared. I got the whole "Babe I'll miss you so much! We have to hang out heaps in the holidays, it's going to be so much fun!" when school was ending. Yeah, apparently not.

They always notice. But it's only ever after they want you to do something #-o

or because you're a kiwi ;)

Maybe because I'm really not that smart?

For a smart girl,you say some daft things sometimes.

WGMG: I swear I could actually just disappear and no one would notice.

Neither is keeping an animal designed for hunting as a house pet.

Yes, but thats hardly comparable with a house pet.

There's heaps of stories of lion attacks, tiger attacks. Hell, the MGM lion killed its trainer.

I've never been attacked by a dog before, but I have been scratched by a cat.

But they dont.

How many cats have you heard of killing people and how many dog attacks have you heard of.

If more people kept pet Ocelots you'd probably be terrified of cats too.

Ive had too many dog attacks to know that i am not a big fan of dogs. Only some dogs are ok, but bloody hell, walking down the street and if i see a dog outside i kind of go in to panic.

Dogs who do that just haven't been trained properly :lol: My mate's dog will see you come in. Sit down and wait for you to beckon him over before he jumps up and greets you.

That said, the dog we had when I was a kid had to be greeted outside because otherwise he lost control of his bladder :lol:

I like that cats are much more realistic pets, sometimes they want to chill with you, sometimes they want some time to themselves, sometimes they want to eat like all hell, and sometimes that want to run about like a crazy bastard. I respect indiviudality and variation in non humans personally.

Also, what Fredsta said.

:lol: Pretty much.

To be honest I really don't have much time for dogs, my cousins have a pretty cool dog but I couldn't stand the full on bursts of shit like having it jump all over you for for the first five minutes you enter the house, or having it force you to throw things for it to fetch while you're trying to eat or watch TV for example. We all like different things, I enjoy the fact my cat can entertain herself but still seek attention in much less in your face manner.

So your ideal pet is something you don't have to entertain and that you can lounge around with.

Your ideal pet is a sofa.