I feel like schools are the reason why i hesitate at times to turn in work on time even though I MAY have gotten the prompt down just fine for points like my zine.... it's that anxiety i get that makes me think what I've written is not enough.

As a student myself, I also find it quite intimidating at times when it comes to writing because I'm an Overthinker; and as an overthinker I see the texts of other professional writers and I think to myself "Geez, I'll probably won't meet the class expectations or the expectations of the assignment at hand" and it's this "being compared" part that seems to get a lot of students today and even in the past.

sometimes when people have the want or at times the need to write, their psyche doesn't let them at times especially when they see professionally published and written pieces of text. even I get that intimidation of looking at those other texts and books and I end up thinking to myself "i'll never reach that level of professional writing"

i feel a resonance to this part of the text since my little brother at 15 years old is still pretty illiterate and has to ask someone else what something says, this is most partly due to the fact that the education system doesn't give a rat's ass about it's future workforce, politicians, and service members. and the fact that during the pandemic in 2020 my little brother did nothing but break MY xbox controllers while raging on fortnite.

Here, Alexie explains how he started to learn to read by saying the words he believed to be there out loud. it was through this that he became verbal in his reading and learned to comprehend these words.

it was similar to how i learned to read and write, my mother bought the little Einstein DVDs and played them on the TV, it was through these DVDs that i learned more than just words, but comprehension further more.