[7:45 pm]
CWC: And in an English class, as we were starting to read "Wednesday's Child", a story of an
autistic girl, I told the professor and the class I was H.F.A.; between that, and some misunderstandings, he kicked me out of his class on my 21st
Birthday.
[7:45 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: wait
[7:45 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: what misunderstandings
[7:45 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: ?
[7:47 pm]
CWC: essentially, when it came to critiquing the papers of the others' students, when they started talking about
drug use and
homosexual content, I wrote with exclamations you'd likely hear from a
black person in church. Note, this was back in
2002, and I was not as mature as I am today.
[7:47 pm]
CWC: *not as mature then as I am today.
[7:48 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: so, you were critiquing each others' papers?
[7:48 pm]
CWC: yes
[7:48 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: what kind of exclamations?
[7:48 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: like, did you shout OH LAWDY or something
[7:48 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: thats kind of a stereotypical black church saying
[7:49 pm]
CWC: I don't remember verbatim, but stuff against the smoking and such, and yes, I did go "Hallelujah, Lord" once or twice.
[7:49 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: on paper or vocally?
[7:49 pm]
CWC: on paper
[7:50 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: what part of the paper were you commenting on when you said that?
[7:51 pm]
CWC: I think it was on a homosexual statement that was on that paper.
[7:51 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: what was the assignment for these papers? were they book reports? or editorial pieces?
[7:51 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: something like that
[7:51 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: ?
[7:51 pm]
CWC: story reports
[7:52 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: on the story your class read?
[7:52 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: what was yours about?
[7:52 pm]
CWC: I'm not sure I understand the question
[7:52 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: was the report about the story you read?
[7:53 pm]
CWC: no, it was on a different story we were reading before Wednesday's Child.
[7:53 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: ah, i see
[7:53 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: what was that story? was it about gay people
[7:54 pm]
CWC: I do not remember.
[7:54 pm]
CWC: It may have, or it may have not been.
[7:54 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: i'm just curious why the paper you were critiquing had stuff about homosexuality
[7:54 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: i know you don't remember the words exactly, but what sort of things were you saying about being gay in your critique?
[7:56 pm]
CWC: because of the way the student wrote his paper; he went into details of the story we had read where he saw something about homosexuality, which I did not see myself.
[7:56 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: so, that student saw like an allegory in the story about homosexuality?
[7:56 pm]
CWC: yes
[7:56 pm]
CWC: and I did not.
[7:57 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: what made you say "hallelujah"
[7:58 pm]
CWC: because I was on a roll on the way I was writing against what the student was saying, and I got carried away.
[7:59 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: so did a debate start about it in class?
[7:59 pm]
CWC: no
[7:59 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: no one talked further about it?
[7:59 pm]
CWC: only the professor offered me his input on what I wrote after class.
[8:00 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: maybe he thought your critique wasn't constructive because you were using such strong language?
[8:01 pm]
CWC: I think he felt confused, and wanted to correct me and my misunderstanding of how to critique others' papers.
[8:01 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: yes, thats probably how he felt
[8:01 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: so what was your discussion like?
[8:02 pm]
CWC: I'd say mid-volume; I mostly listened to what he told me, and I told him that I was only expressing how I felt about the subject of the student's statements.
[8:02 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: how did you feel about the student's statement?
[8:02 pm]
CWC: offended.
[8:02 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: offended? how so?
[8:04 pm]
CWC: I understood that homosexuality was wrong, and I was angry at it on that definition mostly; this was before I understood more of the details that I know today.
[8:05 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: so your critique was telling the other student his views on homosexuality offended you?
[8:05 pm]
CWC: Which WHILE I do feel strongly against their doings behind closed doors and whatnot, they are still people, and I respect them as fellow people nowadays.
[8:05 pm]
CWC: yeah.
[8:06 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: so that's why you were kicked out of class that day? because you weren't doing the assignment properly?
[8:06 pm]
CWC: NO, this was BEFORE I was kicked out of class.
[8:06 pm]
CWC: I was kicked out of class LONG after that, and shortly after I told the professor of me being autistic too.
[8:07 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: if your getting kicked out happened long after, what does this critique assignment have to do with getting kicked out?
[8:07 pm]
CWC: I had theorized that he had little understandings of autistic individuals, and was probably afraid of me.
[8:07 pm]
CWC: the statements I wrote in the critique he probably considered a metaphorically loud outburst
[8:07 pm]
CWC: I do not remember ALL of the details, but I understand at least it was between the critique and my autism.
[8:08 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: well it sounds like he just thought you weren't doing the assignment properly
[8:08 pm]
CWC: likely.
[8:08 pm]
CWC: but I don't know.
[8:08 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: how long after that were you kicked out?
[8:09 pm]
CWC: over a month.
[8:09 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: so what happened the day you were kicked out?
[8:11 pm]
CWC: One of my worst Birthdays in my life.
[8:11 pm]
CWC: I'm sorry, my
mother came in.
[8:11 pm]
CWC: anyway,
[8:11 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: no problem
[8:12 pm]
CWC: it was simply, I went into the classroom on time as usual; few minutes later, the professor comes in, and tells me to leave, straight out!
[8:12 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: well something must have happened before that.
[8:12 pm]
CWC: and I tried to find out why, but he was loud and direct about it.
[8:13 pm]
CWC: after leaving the classroom, I spent the remainder of the time I would have spent in the class, sitting at a table crying and feeling depressed.
[8:13 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: you have no idea why?
[8:13 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: none at all?
[8:13 pm]
CWC: I've just told you what had happened beforehand.
[8:13 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: students dont get kicked out of class for no reason
[8:13 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: ok, so it was the critique incident that caused it.
[8:13 pm]
Jacklyn Romy: seems odd that they'd wait a month to do anything
[8:14 pm]
CWC: that And/Or the autism thing.