Everyone from fourth to seventh grades who (because of my long hair) asked "are you a boy or a girl?"
Then I'd say "*** off..." and they'd come back with something like "no thanks" or "I know you want to" or some dumb *** like that and then giggle about it with their friends.
"Oh my god! I can't believe you just picked up that [scorpion/snake/frog/tarantula/vole/cockroach/any other animal people generally don't like]!"
Me: "I have Asperger's Syndrome."
Person: "What the hell is that?"
Me: "It's a type of autism."
Person: "Wait, so you're ***?"
I'm sure I'm going to think of more later... The world is chock full of ignorance.
When I was in the third grade we were told to bring a bok from home or the library that we would like to read at school. I was about a third of the way through "Gulliver's Travels" at the time so I brought that.
My teacher said the book was unacceptable, and I was not to bring it again. I asked why and she said, "Because third-graders can't understand that book." I said, "It's okay. I understand it. I like it." She got angry and took the book from me and started flipping through the pages, asking me random questions. She got angrier and angrier as I asnswered them.
Finally, she flipped to the end of the book and asked me another question. Of course I couldn't answer it -- I had not read that far. "See!" she said triumphantly and threw the book down on my desk," I told you you didn't understand it."
***.
"Person: 'Wait, so you're ***?'"
Well, Natalie -- he was almost right. There was definitely some retardation involved... but it wasn't yours.
When someone sees me writing, drawing, whatever:
- You're left-handed!
That's annoying.
"Oh, because my IQ is 165, and I have autism..."
When I first started teaching, the principal at our school (former football coach) was a real moron and very touchy about that fact.
Once, quite angrily, he shouted at me, "You think you're smarter than I am just because you're more intelligent!"
A science teacher who was sitting nearby laughed and said, "Well, if he didn't, I'm sure he does now."
My English teacher when I was 12 told the whole class that I was 'unintelligent and immature' because I fidgetted all the time and couldn't look him in the eye. He was very dumb and so was his comment. it sticks with me though.
I saw him once some years after I left school at the station. He was wearing the same jacket and trousors he wore the day he said that thing. I wanted to go over and say something to him but I couldn't. Not sure why.
When I was in the third grade we were told to bring a bok from home or the library that we would like to read at school. I was about a third of the way through "Gulliver's Travels" at the time so I brought that.
My teacher said the book was unacceptable, and I was not to bring it again. I asked why and she said, "Because third-graders can't understand that book." I said, "It's okay. I understand it. I like it." She got angry and took the book from me and started flipping through the pages, asking me random questions. She got angrier and angrier as I asnswered them.
Finally, she flipped to the end of the book and asked me another question. Of course I couldn't answer it -- I had not read that far. "See!" she said triumphantly and threw the book down on my desk," I told you you didn't understand it."
***.
That happened to me once.
I wanted a pretty big book, and they said it was too advanced for me, and said "pick out one word in it and read it" so i did. Then they said "oh that word you picked out wasn't that hard, this book must be too advanced" because that random word happened to be easy for me.
I didn't understand the task correctly. I thought they just meant for me to pick a random word, not that it had to be a hard one.
I probably could have read the first paragraph and then told them in my own words what it meant.
Or if I had been as much of an *** as I am now, could have just flipped through the book and been all "hmm, this one? naw too easy...this one? naw... Oh well, it seems there aren't any words in this book that I don't understand. Can I have it now?"
When I was in the third grade we were told to bring a bok from home or the library that we would like to read at school. I was about a third of the way through "Gulliver's Travels" at the time so I brought that.
Yeah, I got the same remarks when I wanted to read that book as a freshman in high school. Although I must say, if in third grade you knew enough about 18th-century English society to truly understand Swift's twisted, satirical sense of humor, that's pretty damn impressive.
I really hate the way Gulliver's Travels has, over time, been "recreated" into a story for children. I'd like to see those people try that with A Modest Proposal...
Man what the hell is up with teachers stifling kids? That reminds me of when I was in 2nd grade and we were learning handwriting. We spent a lesson on each letter, and whenever we started a new letter, the teacher would ask us if we knew words that started with that letter. So when we got to X, I said xylophone.
The teacher brushed me off because xylophone "doesn't start with the X sound." Well ***. I still don't think I know any words that actually start out with the sound "ks."
Then there were all those kids in fifth grade. That was when I started listening to Marilyn Manson, back in fall 1997, which is relevant because that was the height of Manson's infamy. So these kids kept asking me dumbass questions like "Do you believe in God?" and I said yeah, I believed in God. then:
"Do you believe in the devil?"
"Yeah"
"You're a devil-worshipper."
And the DARE officer even put me down in front of the entire class, me specifically, because I listened to Marilyn Manson. I don't remember what he said, but whenever someone starts blathering about how I'm going to hell for listening to Marilyn Manson, it's pretty much the same unintelligent drivel.
Sometimes when I've got my big overcoat on, to keep warm, someone will say 'are you cold'. I reply 'not know I've got my coat on'. Why do they even say anything?
He was very dumb and so was his comment.
And that's not "unintelligent and immature" of you to say?
Forgive me if I'm being rude by asking this but maybe he said what he said for different reasons, and you've made false associations?
(Usually, assholes have reasons for being assholes, and usually these reasons are not apparent at first sight - hence why they're considered to be assholes.)
Then maybe I was unintelligent and immature. This incident took place about eighteen years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday, he I suspect as no memory of that day at all. So maybe he was right after all?
The dumbest comments I've ever received were last year when other students at college used to ask me "what program are you taking?" and it was always really hard to bite my tongue and not scream "I'M NOT IN A ****ING PROGRAM YOU ****ING MORON!" It just felt patronising, everyone assuming that I'm in a program like everyone else, without even bothering to ask if I'm just taking random courses until I figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life.
It wasn't until October that I realized I wanted to go into Mechanical Engineering Technology.
It's their fault a lot of the time for not making themselves clearer.
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