16 Elementary School Memories Anyone Who Has An Anxiety Disorder And/Or Was Called "A Pleasure To Have In Class" Is Definitely Suppressing

Fourth grade you is crying and throwing up rn.

1. First and foremost, this specific Math Minute worksheet:

Anyone have these math problems in elementary shool? We only had a minute to complete it. from nostalgia

Crying and throwing up at the pure sight of it.

2. Staring at this very alarm clock at 6:59 a.m. and mentally and emotionally preparing for it to wake you up in exactly one minute:

These alarm clocks. from nostalgia

3. Being absolutely shaken to your CORE whenever one of your classmates did this as a bit:

Needle in skin: Who usually did this as a kid? I can't be the only one from nostalgia

4. Having to walk into this specific classroom and ask to borrow something:

90s high school science classroom from nostalgia

Or WORSE: Having to do this, but all the students in the classroom are in the year above you.

5. Fearing judgment from both your peers and your gym teacher when you did hideously bad on the sit-and-reach test:

Torture device known as the "sit and reach" test from nostalgia

6. Getting on this bus for a field trip and having to make a quick decision on where you're gonna sit and who you're gonna sit with:

Going on long field trips in a charter bus from nostalgia

7. Playing Brain Quest against people and always losing, so you never wanted to play it, but your parents/teachers always made you, so:

Who else used “Brain Quest” to play school/teacher as kid? from nostalgia

8. Whenever these mats were pulled out in gym class and your pre-secondhand embarrassment kicked in because you knew you were going have to do something labor-intensive in front of your peers:

Anyone remember those mats that didnt even soften the fall when you landed on them? from nostalgia

9. Having to cover your textbooks in this brown paper and just KNOWING you're gonna fuck it up:

Covering your text books with brown paper. from nostalgia

10. The deep frustration and panic you felt when learning to write a — shivers — cursive G:

Learning to write. from nostalgia

11. And getting this stuff on your hand while writing and just being like "UGH, great, now I have to deal with this":

Getting the side of your hand stained by graphite in school from nostalgia

12. When your teacher pulled down one of these maps and you waited — with bated breath — for it to SLAM BACK UP and scare the living sh*z out of you:

The teacher's pull down maps from nostalgia

13. Bringing home your monthly cafeteria menu and meticulously planning which meals you were gonna get:

Bringing home your monthly cafeteria menu. from nostalgia

14. The sheer anxiety of waiting your turn in Four Square during recess:

Foursquare from nostalgia

15. Spending hours upon hours in this liminal space:

Spending hours in the library from nostalgia

16. And lastly, the one thing that ever gave us any relief in elementary school:

Scholastic Book Fairs were the best. from nostalgia

H/T r/nostalgia