Love the subtle shade.
Yeah, almost like some shit is boring and some shit isnāt. Iām angry for your 6th grade self!!
Yeah but tolerating the boring shit allows me to have enough money to devote to my special interests. Got to pay the bills somehow. š¤·āāļø
Ahaha yep. āAt great lengthā got me! My family still has a running joke that I ādid a projectā on everything because I loved researching and writing about stuff I cared about at school and used to proudly announce facts that I had learned because āI did a project on itā. Iām 39 now and work in a museum and occasionally my siblings will still tease me about a āprojectā Iām obsessing over!
"Project" is my favorite word, unless it's preceded by the word "group."
Oof, hard same!
I got a lot of comments like that. As well as 'a pleasure to have in class, but sometimes talks too much and distracts the other students'. I also got a lot of 'daydreams frequently' and 'does not always finish or hand in home work'.
I used to be great at homework but when my youngest sibling was born it became too chaotic at my home for homework. And one time my dog literally did eat my homework. Luckily I had what was left of the sheet to show my teacher as proof.
Once homework became an important part of my grade, I was constantly in trouble for not doing homework. I would never do it. I can't say why...I was always told it was because I was lazy and careless. But I am not a lazy and careless person in general.
I think it was partly anxiety, and it was partly the fact that I never was able to take school or the authority of teachers seriously. But I can't quite pinpoint what made it impossible for me to do homework.
It was very stressful to show up at school knowing I'd get in trouble for not having something done. I just couldn't get myself to do it though.
I was exactly like that too. I could never explain it when I was younger. I was even diagnosed as possibly having Oppositional Defiant Disorder when I was 8 because I was that bad. It was weird, I was a really well behaved kid, but sometimes I'd refuse to do things and I didn't know why. I just couldn't force myself to do them if I was asked to/had to.
Have you heard about 'pathological demand avoidance'? PDA oftens pops up in autistic people and I'm pretty sure I have it. I've been assessed multiple times as an adult and each time they've agreed that I definitely don't t have ODD. PDA definitely describes me better.
I'm still the same. I can be just about to vacuum or something but if my husband mentions that it needs doing I suddenly lose all impetus to start the task. It's insane.
Luckily I'm not like this in the workplace. I don't know why but work-mode-me is able to follow requests without feeling like I'm dragging 1000kgs of rock attached to my mind.
Oh yeah that's true. I do identify with the PDA. I guess that's why.
One manifestation of PDA for me is that my brain always thinks of the opposite whenever someone gives me a command. Even if they say "have a good day!", I think "no I'm going to have a bad day". It doesn't even mean anything. I don't actually decide to have a bad day, but it's a conscious thought that occurs whenever someone gives me a command of any type.
The up side to this is that sometimes the opposite of things is a pretty funny joke, and because I always have a running stream of opposition going through my head, I am known for making funny witticisms. I just say the funny ones aloud lol.
I have to stop myself from saying these thoughts most of the time though. And sometimes when they're funny, I realize a the last second that it would be inappropriate to make a joke and so I stop myself.
Or sometimes I don't catch myself in time. Lol
Take this quarter and get a rat to gnaw that thing off your face.
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Oh that's a scene from Uncle Buck. It's a scene where a nasty kindergarten teacher scolds a young kid for daydreaming. It was my weird movie quote way of throwing shade on the teachers who wrote those comments about you.
Oh, nor worries, thanks for explaining. I don't think I ever had a teacher that understood me, and I went to 13 schools so I had a lot of teachers.
I only had one really nasty teacher though. I don't think I have the report card from her though, as it was so mean. I remember crying for hours after I got it in grade 4.
That's so awful
Yeah she was a terrible teacher. But luckily I only had her for half a year. The teacher I had after her, for grades 5 and 6, was lovely though and even if she didn't get me she was still kind and tried to understand me as best she could.
What a flash back, I got this so much growing up too !
oh wow we were all the same as kids huh lol
Reminds me of my kindergarten assignment I found. We were supposed to draw a picture and write 3 words to describe it. I drew the itsy bitsy spider and wrote an entire verse of the song. Teacher was so upset that she wrote āthis was not the assignment. you were supposed to write 3 words! >:(ā yes, she used an emoji to express her anger. Lady, I went above and beyond. WTF. In fifth grade we were supposed to write and draw a picture story book. I came in with my written draft, pages of paragraphs, and the teacher looked at me with shock and said āthis is a novelā. There wasnāt very much room for pictures in the end. That teacher was super nice, though. Ā
This is hilarious, almost identical to what I used to get!
Holy shittt this is literally me!! I used to write all the way off the page if it was something I was interested in
I had an English teacher who told me "What a waste of talent!" when she wasn't impressed by my oral exam. I answered "Yeah", but I wasn't agreeing with her.