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Originally posted by Teneo
I remember when Camilla and I met in HS back some time ago. I was a couple years older than her and we only saw eachother during one or two subject classes, 3 hours a week max. She was pretty shy, always in the back row, never let anyone interact with her. I remember that we had to do a presentation about different kinds of social issues and when the teacher approached her because it was Camilla's turn, she simply said "I won't do it, and I'll leave it at that". The teacher seemed comprehensive, so we all just assumed that the girl had already talked with him about skipping the presentation. She sat there for the rest of the class, taking notes.
I wasn't until April-May of that year that we got assigned groups to do a research project. Since I was older than the rest of the class, I had trouble finding classmates to work with. The outcasts (in which I included myself) basically formed a group and Camilla, who was also left alone with no class group, joined in. She did pretty much all of the research, came up with the whole project and stuff. We would tell her "Camilla, do you need help with something?", "Camilla, is there anything the rest of us can do?". She would just shrug it off, not looking into our eyes. "I can handle it myself". The week before the deadline, we did a group meeting to review our work and prepare things to the final draft. She did not show up, didn't answer any messages.
The day we had to show the project to the jury, Camilla broke down crying as we walked to the stage, silently, as if she wasn't trying to make any noise. The professor took her out of the theatre. Next thing we know is that Camilla had told him that we didn't collaborate in our group sessions and that she felt so forced to do the work herself that her heatlh had deteriorated for two weeks.
We didn't pass the subject and I had to repeat a whole year in HS because of this incident.
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