My own experience with guidance counselors meant that it took me a minute to recognize that as a compliment! They were at best useless to me.
A friend who doesn't have an lj wrote to me on this topic, and one of the things I'm putting in my e-mail back to her is that I was thinking of her as one of the people who successfully didn't get very personally invested in high school, but that I wasn't sure how to make what worked for her general: she has a very close-knit family with many interests in common, and I've always thought that she identified strongly to primarily with them. Which is great, but it's not something you can make happen if it isn't already happening by that point.
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Date: 2008-04-12 05:00 pm (UTC)A friend who doesn't have an lj wrote to me on this topic, and one of the things I'm putting in my e-mail back to her is that I was thinking of her as one of the people who successfully didn't get very personally invested in high school, but that I wasn't sure how to make what worked for her general: she has a very close-knit family with many interests in common, and I've always thought that she identified strongly to primarily with them. Which is great, but it's not something you can make happen if it isn't already happening by that point.