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title: 'Eighth-Grader Syndrome and How I Got Over It'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=JSTcJ13oyLk'
video_id: 'JSTcJ13oyLk'
date: 2026-07-22
duration_sec: 485
channel: 'Милшу'
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# Eighth-Grader Syndrome and How I Got Over It

> Source: [Eighth-Grader Syndrome and How I Got Over It](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JSTcJ13oyLk)

## Summary

The speaker shares personal experiences with 'eighth-grader syndrome' (a phase of adolescent fantasy and self-importance), recounting childhood games of being a witch, forming a girls' group at summer camp, and later cosplaying as magical girls with friends. She reflects on how these fantasies evolved into adult ambitions and a belief in personal luck.

### Key Points

- **Childhood Fantasies** [00:02] — The speaker dreamed of a magical cat giving powers, but dismissed it as bedtime fantasy.
- **Discovery of Magical Girl Media** [00:17] — Watching 'Charodeika' (Winx Club) resonated deeply because magical girls faced ordinary teenage problems.
- **Comics and Books** [00:45] — She sought out comics and books about witches, noting that now 'Comme il faut' publishes thick volumes of Guardian adventures.
- **Two Episodes of Syndrome** [01:52] — She suffered from eighth-grader syndrome twice: at age 10 and in 10th grade, noting it can happen at any age.
- **Summer Camp Experience** [02:06] — Sent to an educational summer camp with English, origami, dancing, and nature hikes; felt like a separate little life.
- **Forming a Girls' Group** [03:27] — At age 10-12, girls separate from boys; she formed 'Mega' to protect girls from aggressive boys.
- **Playing Witches** [04:08] — The group played witches in the forest, assigned elemental forces, made amulets, and believed they controlled the weather.
- **Return of the Witches in 10th Grade** [05:06] — With friends Tanya and Lena, she cosplayed as Charmed Ones, performed rituals for exams, and swore blood oath of friendship.
- **Adult Manifestation** [06:27] — She still imagines herself as an animator, blogger, streamer, or traveler, believing her superpower is getting what she wants.

### Conclusion

The speaker embraces her inner fantasy as a driving force, believing her 'superpower' of luck and resilience helps her move forward.

## Transcript

wanted to meet a magical cat who would give me powers, but those were just fantasies before bed. And so, I didn’t worry about those around me until one day an event occurred that led to that very
series of cringe stories. Then you started broadcasting the material of Charodeika. There, magical girls not only fought evil but also solved their ordinary teenage problems that absolutely everyone faces. Right in my soul and
heart, life responded. In general, and I was so imbued with this cartoon about look for comics about witches at all the stalls and even read books about the Universe of the little. Not all issues of magazines about sorceresses reached my
backwater. She borrowed from friends for a long time, it was not comme il faut. But now Comme il faut publishes comics with the adventures of the Guardians, immediately plump ones.  houses in first volume of the third arc of HIV Enchantress will be released a crisis of two worlds it seems
new trials await the girls Around every corner and failing nerves destroy the team from within there is no peace even in ordinary life especially Now that after so many years the father of the villa has appeared will the Enchantresses be able to pull themselves together before
facing a new enemy the events of this from the following volumes tell stories that were never included in the film adaptation and this means that new intrigues new heroes and new impressions await you it's time to plunge into nostalgia or discover a
completely new world of magic and adventures returning to Meridian gift a wonderful postcard with the guards You can Follow the links in the description in
imagines himself as the main character of a fictional world and has you want to know more, you can watch the recently released video from the new section the neural network answers here in the corner I will leave a hint this
syndrome did not pass me by either and I suffered from it twice and both in  ten, first at age 10, and then in tenth grade. Yes, this thing can happen at any age, and some have this condition permanently.
Weather charmers, every summer, our parents tried to push us off somewhere because Mom sister and I could just mess around with our own affairs. During the summer holidays, we were first learning English, and then to a full-fledged children's camp with accommodation
for a whole shift. Well, from the age of 14, we were already regularly sent to summer becomes very envious when people tell how, as children, they simply got stuck in a game for days or slept until lunch. In fact, it was a
wonderful time of freedom. Summer was always perceived as a separate little life where you can be a completely different person. You could start everything from scratch and be who you yourself created. With such thoughts, I
went to an educational summer camp where We continued to study, but without oppressive thoughts that failing some subject will ruin  For the rest of our lives, the camp itself was really cool. They gave us a huge building where we could run around endlessly, go crazy, and
imagine that we were wandering around Hogwarts. Well, it nature hikes for us in the Botanical Garden, where they cooked the most delicious soup in a giant cauldron. And for lunch, they took us to a beautiful
restaurant with panoramic windows. I'm telling you, they don't understand where they got the funding from, since it wasn't that expensive a camp. Most of the time, you did English origami and dancing, but it felt like we always
had plenty of time to play and have fun with each other. At the usual age of 10-12, girls begin to separate themselves from the company of boys, gathering in some groups. And the boys, in turn, actively bullied the girls, drawing
attention to themselves, sometimes even too aggressively, and not because boys at that age are so nasty, but because they simply don't know how to establish contact at that age. In general, it's a difficult time for children, and to
protect the girls, I decided to put together Mega  A bunch of the most authoritative ladies on our shift. Apparently, I sounded convincing, as it was easy for me. Our Mighty threatened overly insolent boys so that they would not offend or beat the little ones, in the
representatives of the men. Well, that's all. And of course, we also arrange dates and were actively involved in matchmaking, but it seems we were so filled with our feminine energy that our fervor was enough to even
play little witches in a clearing in the forest. We organized get-togethers, exchanged various esoteric information, and at some point truly believed that we had some kind of powers. In our group, we
which elemental force, made magic amulets for each other, and controlled the weather. Yes, you heard right. We could control the weather. We did this by directing our thinking about the desired weather for tomorrow, looking at the sky.  And the funniest thing is that it
beat regarding our wishes. Now I remember it and it's even a little shocking. We probably always ordered warm, sunny weather, and the summer was mild and pleasant that year. But that's where it all ended.
The shift at the camp came to an end, we all went home and never went home and never talked again. The Return of the Witches. So, 10th grade. I'm already a grown girl. Sailor Moon. Sorceresses have been watched to death. And on TV, here and there,
series about witches, magical girls, and other Supernatural flicker. Maybe you remember my Tanya, the tank, the Soviet atomic bomb, and Lena, just a bomb. The three of us decided to cosplay as Charmed Ones from the
ignored the Harry Potter universe, but then we decided to concentrate on the idea of ​​​​female friendship. All means and sparrows were devoted to most of our sorcerers, especially to studying.  They used a love spell on a man or a spell to make
breasts grow back then. We had very tough exams and we prepared for them together, wrote out tickets, looked for information and drank Cola mixed with coffee to stay awake and performed various rituals for passing exams successfully. Once we even
swore on Blood to keep our friendship. For many years, by the way, not a single animal or Virgo was harmed in our rituals. Tell me, the story is dry and doesn't smell like eighth-grader syndrome at all, but we believed in our strength back then, and we truly passed the
exams successfully. And we are still friends, even though many years have passed. What's interesting is that in no case have I experienced eighth-grader syndrome alone. I always had accomplices and I don't know whether it was bragging or a
clinic. But usually it was I who acted as the instigator of these strange games of witches and age and ending up with such fantasies? Well, maybe I still have this condition. The setting and goals just change. I imagine myself as an
animator, seriously.  Considering myself a blogger, I imagine that I could be a YouTuber and a full-fledged streamer. Perhaps even comics artists and sometimes travelers, explorers. I always find myself in a certain fantasy that I am always
incredibly lucky and my exceptional feature is to get exactly what I want, and if suddenly I am unlucky, I get into trouble or get rejected, then I just take it for granted, as if life is preparing something cooler and more
important, because my superpower never fails me. I believe in it. And even if I am unlucky, then that’s how it should be. Maybe my goal is in a completely different direction. That’s why I continue to move forward in life, and my inner
fire of true heaven does not give me the right to give up. Thank you all for watching. Thank you to my friends for your support, especially the Mixonic franchise guys really helped me during the previous season of streams. Thanks to them, I can
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