Get Off My Lawn Podcast #71 | I Was in the Special Class When I Was 12

Get Off My Lawn Podcast w/ Gavin McInnes

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Getoffmylawn, Comedy, Podcast, Society & Culture, Gavinmcinnes

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🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Initially my teachers thought I was gifted but after doing a few tests, they realized I was borderline “special needs” and put me in a class with the dumbest kids in the school. The strange thing about this class was it also included kids who teachers just didn’t want to look at. There was an autistic kid, a hemophiliac, and some random chick dying of cancer. They all had good grades but they made teachers uncomfortable so off to the Special Class they went.

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0:00.0	I was in the special class when I was 12.
0:03.4	You know, the class four,
0:05.3	mentally slow people.
0:07.5	But this was different.
0:08.8	This was 1982,
0:11.4	when they could get away with stuff.
0:13.3	So it wasn't just for dumb kids.
0:16.3	Though I'd good 70 to 80% were real, real stupid.
0:21.3	But they also treated it as sort of a,
0:25.5	sorry, I just ran up the stairs.
0:26.8	They treated it as a garbage heap
0:29.3	for anyone that they didn't like or didn't want around.
0:33.2	So there was 80% dumb kids,
0:36.9	but then just a bunch of weird kids,
0:39.6	and then also sick kids.
0:42.2	Like there was this girl in our class,
0:43.8	this was Mr. Guns class,
0:46.3	Diabri Moody, 1982.
0:49.7	And she was dying of cancer.
0:52.4	Or she, you know, actually one good thing
0:55.0	about kids with cancer, there's not a lot,
0:56.9	but one of them is their bodies are pretty tough.
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