Dear Shirley:

It is distressing to you then, that your ap english friend that is good in science is competing against you: too bad. In many of your posts it is clear that friendly cooperation and helping each other calms you and benefit your studies.

AP Physics is very challenging with a quiz every 3 days and a test every 5 days plus the teacher not teaching well enough! Wish there was a physics teacher like your pre calc teacher.

I wish your parents understood that you are a human being, not a machine. You have emotions and needs and get stressed. I wish they were attentive and accommodating of you.

I too wish you spent more time with your special friend. He sound so kind and loving and you do need someone, in person, to care for you. He is worried about you being too stressed and so do I. Your life is very challenging: all that school work, the pressure to get good grades, to get to a good college, to help in the restaurant when your father makes deliveries, to handle competitive friends and critical peers… I wonder how learning to drive is going to fit in with your already busy schedule.

Take care of your special self, keep exercising and attending to your physical health (both sides). Till later-

anita