17/05/2026
If you graduated in the 90s or earlier, you probably remember schools separating students by learning levels. Some students learned at grade level while others were placed in CDC classes (Comprehensive Development Classes) or resource classes because they needed additional academic, behavioral, emotional, or developmental support.
There were also Level 1, 2, and 3 classifications that often reflected how much support a student needed:
Level 1 = mild support,
Level 2 = moderate support,
Level 3 = more intensive assistance and supervision.
Then came the major push for inclusion in the early 2000s where everybody became integrated into the same environments more broadly. Now before people twist my words, I’m not saying inclusion is bad. I’m saying society stopped being honest about emotional intelligence, accountability, impulse control, psychological health, and behavioral dysfunction.
Sometimes we glorify “gangster” behavior without realizing we are really looking at untreated trauma, emotional instability, psychopathy, manipulation, impulsiveness, or people operating with very low emotional intelligence. And because society normalized blending everybody together without teaching people how to recognize unhealthy behavior patterns, many emotionally healthy people end up bonding, dating, reproducing, and building lives with deeply unstable individuals because they appear “normal enough” on the surface.
You find yourself pouring your heart out trying to communicate with someone who genuinely lacks the emotional capacity, empathy, comprehension skills, accountability, or psychological stability to process healthy communication. Then society labels everything “toxic” when in reality some people are dealing with serious dysfunction that goes far beyond ordinary relationship conflict.
Pay attention. Everybody is not wired the same emotionally, mentally, or psychologically.
