[7:45 pm]
CWC:And in an English class, as we were starting to read "Wednesday's Child", a story of an
autisticgirl, 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 useand
homosexualcontent, I wrote with exclamations you'd likely hear from a
blackperson 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.