What Does It Mean To Be Disrespectful?

From a very young age, I found company in the offices of various principals and teachers. Before I get ahead of myself, I’d like to say that I was never really the person who was in trouble. Since preschool, children have been taught that there is a sort of “bad kid” to steer clear of. You know the one- rude, disruptive, and insensitive. I was aware of this image, yet I had never seen it in action. People were nice to me, and I returned their kindness. I understood that sometimes my friends made mistakes and did things that were wrong, but I was able to forgive them easily. Thus, I never understood why the teacher felt the need to single them out, to force the “bad kid” label onto them. I quickly made a name for myself as I defended my friends when some figure of authority tried to punish them for something trivial. Sure, Jimmy shouldn’t have taken the crayons away from Shannon, but that was hardly worth forcing him into time-out.
I never meant to be disrespectful towards our teacher; I simply wanted to clear my friend’s name and make the point that he never meant to hurt anyone- he wanted to color. Regardless, my parents received a call home. I never let it discourage me, though, I knew that my friends didn’t deserve
We all experienced it differently. For me, Bruce Wayne was an accurate representation of mental illness. He’s obsessive, and accurately depicts the symptoms of such a disorder, including the social isolation, impulsivity, hypervigilance, nightmares, and feelings of guilt. The importance of this sort of mental health representation that exists in Bruce Wayne is that it’s clear that he is not his disorder. True, it is a significant part of who he is, yet he’s more than it. Bruce Wayne is far more than just a disorder. I look at my brother’s autism, my sister’s depression, my own panic attacks, and acknowledge that we are all more than those few