If someone says, "I've missed my mom a lot, she never played favorites. She was really great" does that imply the dad plays favorites?

That's normal. You arent supposed to feel comfortable at school. School is war zone where the competition for social status is so serious that everyone is stressed out constantly and everything you say and do comes under scrutiny from everyone who is trying to establish their rank above you.

Your problem is fear. When you experience fear or anxiety in a situation you run from it and avoid it because you think fear is a bad thing. Change your relationship with fear.

Embrace your fear. When something makes you nervous, make a point to do it just so you know you can regardless of the consequences. Let kids laugh at you.

Just let go and stop trying to avoid everything.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.