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maybe that notification bell too. Let's crack on with today's first story. Now today's first story comes from admirable Emu-9628 and says, am I the A-hole for walking out

of my STEM family's New Year party and ignoring them.

And I'm sure everyone knows, but just in case it's science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

I-25 male and part of a large STEM family. My entire family is Ivy League educated. My parents, five siblings, etc. They're all doctors,

scientists and mathematicians. I'm the only one who isn't. Growing up, I was always the black sheep.

School just didn't come easy to me.

They even had me tested for learning disabilities at one point.

I had nothing, but I just wasn't good at school.

I spent my entire childhood crying over math textbooks, wondering why I don't get it.

Why it's so easy for them and not for me.

Art came easy, literature came easy, but to my family that was just trash and not worth focusing

on. It didn't help that they kept sending me to the same academic schools my siblings went to.

Those schools were brutal. The competition there was fierce and kids

were literally snorting Adderall to get through the exam week. That environment didn't help.

Things didn't improve until I moved out at 18 and got a job at a tattoo parlour. I was able to get an

art degree. I started writing, going to therapy and got a boyfriend.

My life just got better because for the first time I could just be me. My family couldn't accept

this and contact with them became less and less. Every time I meet them, they never make an effort

to talk to me about the things I like. They just talk among themselves

about stem subjects I don't understand. I try to engage with them but things they discuss I just

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