My school (an arts school) is working on the end of the year showcase. We were split into groups to make our own plays, and my group has three people (including me). There’s me, another guy (I’ll call him Damien), and a girl (I’ll call her Claire). Claire is the kind of person to want everything to be perfect, but with our group it’s kind of hard. Damien has ADHD, and so do I, and we distract each other way too much. It was becoming a problem, because we hadn’t gotten much work done. This went on for a few weeks, and we had completed the script and had a good idea of what the blocking was going to be. Claire was getting upset more easily, and had started leaving to go to other groups, so we were left on our own. I really did feel bad, because I knew how much it was upsetting her and I still didn’t focus. I was the asshole in this situation, but there’s more. The teachers talked to us about how we need to work together, blah blah blah, and how Claire‘s emotions are stronger than usual. She feels emotions more strongly, so we’re supposed to act accordingly to that. I think that’s understandable, but also, we have stuff that needs to be addressed too? I guess I do kind of sound like an asshole, but thats not even the main story.

Me and Damien had been really trying to focus, and really trying to work harder, but Claire didn’t care. Every time we would split into our groups, she would put her head on the table and not work with us. It was frustrating, because we really were doing our best, and trying. I asked her a question, but she didn’t answer, so I asked it again. And again. She finally answered, but because her head was covered by her arms I couldn’t hear her, so I asked “what?”. She still didn’t move her head, so I yelled “WHAT” louder. I didn’t mean for it to be that loud, but everyone stared at me. I said sorry and how I didn’t mean to, but everyone is calling me an asshole because of it.