...was obsessed with how we wrote, not penmanship but the position of the paper. We had to write with the paper completely sideways, and with huge letters (my writing has always been small, but American students are typically taught with huge block letters).
...demanded students ask for a bathroom pass in German, and wrote daily schedules in German, but the school was English language with no foreign language program. Also she kept repeating that bullshit 'fact' that the US official language was decided via a single vote.
...yelled at us when we were doing an art project about MLK, and we were colouring the clothes colours that she claimed 'never existed' in the 1960s.
...made fun of student's grades. When she was laughing at me, I asked, 'Why is that funny? I don't see how it is', and she gave me detention and called my mom.
...refused to believe that it was causing me pain to sit rigid upright at all times because I'd just fractured two vertebrae falling off a horse.
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I have a "friend" who's got alot in common with Chris chan. He doesn't have a job (outside being payed to program a videogame), he doesn't take care of himself, expects other people to do shit for him but doesn't do shit for others, lives at home (then again he's 22 and that may be too young?), and he's a manipulative butthole.
And recently he's been claiming that the reason why he can't do anything in real life and why everything is easier for him on the internet is because he thinks he is undiagnosed autistic. (it wouldn't surprise me) He's started playing the supposed autistic card even when I ask him to do simple things like play animal crossing with me or to do anything with me or his best friend.
And I have a question. I know people with autism struggle, but when is it like...not cool to play the autism card..OH! What can autism excuse/ not excuse?
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And I have a question. I know people with autism struggle, but when is it like...not cool to play the autism card..OH! What can autism excuse/ not excuse?
It's debatable, depending on the severity, I would imagine. Generally parents and therapists, such as mine tried to help me work around my disability, and I don't recall ever using it as a crutch because I had it drilled into my head at a young age that it doesn't define who I am. It may be a reason why someone with ASD acts the way he does, but that doesn't mean it's an excuse.
Not all people on the spectrum are rude, and who knows, some of the ones who use autism as an excuse to be an asshole are probably just assholes who don't even have any disorders on the spectrum.
It's debatable, depending on the severity, I would imagine. Generally parents and therapists, such as mine tried to help me work around my disability, and I don't recall ever using it as a crutch because I had it drilled into my head at a young age that it doesn't define who I am. It may be a reason why someone with ASD acts the way he does, but that doesn't mean it's an excuse.
Not all people on the spectrum are rude, and who knows, some of the ones who use autism as an excuse to be an asshole are probably just assholes who don't even have any disorders on the spectrum.
I gotcha! I was sorta figuring it may be just people being assholes, because one of my closest friends has aspergers (or is it high functioning autism now..I dunno) and she never uses it as a crutch. She tries to be awesome and not let shit hold her back, and I admire her.
As for my "friend". What if the dude wasn't diagnosed or taken to a doctor but has taken online tests and thinks he has it? (self diagnosed) He claims it is because his parents didnt want him to know or couldnt afford to go to doctor.
Sometimes I feel like people simply claim they are "autistic" or have a disability just so they can justify their stupidity and failures. Then again people are more cynical on the Internet.
It sounds like people here have had a lot ofc**nts for teachers. It is good you worked hard and triumphd even against them.
Ill bet many of them had persoality disorders tho. They remind me of Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter.
The best way to deal with authority figures who impose stupid, petty, arbitrary rules is just to "go with the flow." You have no power over them, none at all, and insultng them or antagozing them will make your life harder. Be quit, polite and courteous, and try to get on their good sides.
If they are asking the truly unreaonble or impossbe, familiarize yoursef with scool rules. Even hire a lawyer perhaps.
In fourth grade, I had a teacher who was a megabitch. Let's call her Mrs. Cumstain.
The worst thing she did was when we had a vocabulary test. After studying hard, I took the test. I thought we were supposed to just write down the definitions of the word. Mrs. Cumstain read the instructions, but I was a little too eager to prove that I knew what I was doing, so I didn't listen. I was nine--give me a break. Not much stimulated me.
Apparently, we were supposed to use the word in a sentence instead of writing the definition. Now, a normal, nice teacher would pull the student aside and explain to them what they did wrong--but not Mrs Cumstain, oh no!
A week later, she hands back the tests. And she said, "Everyone did well on the exam, except darkhorse816 who GOT A ZERO BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS!" Yes, let's publicly shame our students in front of the whole fucking class. Everyone teased me because of that. And for a while, I felt like shit. Like for two weeks, I felt like shit.
I guess she might be a lolcow because she knew better, but decided that shaming a child would get the point across better. I tend to think people like that, bullies in a way, are lolcows, because they know better, and know they are supposed to be setting an example for children.
I kind of hope my kids don't have teachers like that, mostly because I have poor impulse control and a bitch will end up doing their best Clark Kent impression out a window.
Since we're on the subject of bad teachers, I'll share one.
Ms. Wolf, the worst teacher I've ever had. And it was only 4th grade.
Ms. Wolf was relatively new to teaching. Before my class, she had only taught kindergarten. First off, she was a horribly disorganized teacher. We would spend a lot of time on math, but hardly any on English. And then she would yell at our class when we got low test scores. She had very little patience with some of the trouble makers in our class, getting in their face and screaming at them. One time during our American History section, we spent the entire class time learning about racial slurs. And this wasn't on the lesson plan, it was all because some little redneck shit said "Towel heads" and lied saying that's the only way he knew how to identify Middle Eastern people. So she felt it was her duty to teach us all these racial slurs and then not to use them.
It sounds like people here have had a lot ofc**nts for teachers. It is good you worked hard and triumphd even against them.
Ill bet many of them had persoality disorders tho. They remind me of Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter.
The best way to deal with authority figures who impose stupid, petty, arbitrary rules is just to "go with the flow." You have no power over them, none at all, and insultng them or antagozing them will make your life harder. Be quit, polite and courteous, and try to get on their good sides.
If they are asking the truly unreaonble or impossbe, familiarize yoursef with scool rules. Even hire a lawyer perhaps.
See, I can't do that. I'm sort of reflexively insubordinate. When I hear rules that have no immediately apparent reasons, I want to break them--not even overtly. Just to show myself I can. I've done so much shit (some of which was actually a federal crime) that I got away with but felt AWESOME about because I stuck it to 'The Man'. I blame Roald Dahl. Reading his books where kids get one over on the adult world left me with an ineradicable desire to shake shit up. Other people have normal legal hobbies, but you can't exactly brag about breaking rules if you wanna keep breaking them.
@Axiom. Lol "Matilda" ftw!!
I hope you pulled some pranks on those rotten teachers such as putting a toad/ thumbtack on their chair, or putting laxatives in their coffee!
Can you tell us the legal ( and perhaps illegal stuff) you've done just for lulz sake?
@Axiom. Lol "Matilda" ftw!!
I hope you pulled some pranks on those rotten teachers such as putting a toad/ thumbtack on their chair, or putting laxatives in their coffee!
Can you tell us the legal ( and perhaps illegal stuff) you've done just for lulz sake?
I was never one for pranks. I just really want to be able to be incredibly sneaky and cunning and clever... But yeah, Matilda totally was my idol. The girl who played her is my age, that totally weirds me out for some reason.
Most of what I did was pretty mundane. I'm really good at eating food and chewing gum without getting caught. I can swallow nearly anything whole and, if necessary, regurgitate it. (Not so great a reason for this: my parents drugged the hell out of me so I learned how to swallow really big pills. I hated taking them and have a crazy sensitive gag reflex, so I learned how to carefully throw them back up.)
I can get into sealed containers without breaking the seal.
I can palm change and hide money and other things on myself or in my belongings in plain sight in ways my professional magician boyfriend thinks is actally impressive.
I can pick locks. I smuggled a lock pick through airport security and into a psych hospital in the lining of my shoe.
And I casually committed mail fraud for years. It's illegal to open other people's mail but I did when I wanted to see what was in it. Not steal it. Just see. I hate surprises, I'm the sort of person who looks spoilers up on purpose so I know what's coming. But the statute of limitations expires on that in five years and I haven't done it for at least that long, and in any case I never stole anything. But it is shockingly easy to do it. Steaming open letters is simple enough and resealing them just needs a gluestick. The trick is making it not stand out, for which you can iron it through a pillowcase or flannel shirt, or wet all the other mail and claim it was dropped in a puddle. Opening packages is even easier: flip it upside down and cut the tape from the bottom. Reseal with the same type of tape. It's possible to see this, but only if yo already know exactly what to look for. Which most people don't.
Like I said, I've mostly done small and harmless things solely because I want to prove I can. I could probably be a decently skilled criminal, but really all I am is a Roald Dahl character masquerading as a grownup.
A teacher at college once put everyone's grades on a big electronic whiteboard system. When I said one day that he shouldn't have done that as grades are supposed to be private, he bitched at me and said it was because I was slipping in class (I wasn't, I was actually quite high on the "list") and called my mum in. He stopped doing it eventually, but spent every form time we had talking about how we should be more like the girl who was on top of said list, which made everyone feel like complete shit (and we later found out she got A LOT of outside and inside help and she did very little of the work herself, still got top grades but yeah.)
I had an electronics teacher who would spend the first 15 minutes of the class lecturing us on the importance of not wasting time and getting on with out work. And God help anybody who tried to do anything other than listen to him during said lecture.
While we're on teachers, I'm going to talk about a Spanish teacher who taught at my high school. I never had her myself (I took German because it was the closest to English), but the stories I heard about her...were weird to say the least. Apparently, she (in her mid-40's or 50's, I couldn't really tell) still lived with her twin sister and her parents. Not only that, she would apparently eat Vick's vapor rub, bite her own toenails and only watch Monk while the TV was on mute. So, maybe she had OCD? If that's the case, that would explain a lot as I know a guy who has OCD who's always thinking that I'm plotting to steal his girlfriend and that his friends are plotting against him.
Back in my junior year in high school, I remember hearing from a classmate of mine about a substitute teacher who went in to sub for her IB art class (for those who don't know what IB is, it's basically an academic program). The substitute barely did anything in that class, then suddenly she went on to say how nobody in the class will amount to anything in life (keep in mind, these are students who achieved awesome grades and were pretty intelligent as well). Her ass got fired pretty quickly after that.
There's a girl at my school. She's basically the real-life equivelant of Meg Griffin. She's fat, ugly, and annoying. She's basically the butt of all of our jokes. I know how mean it is, and everyone'd be fine with her being fat and ugly if she wasn't so damn annoying. All she does in art class last year is draw shitty pictures and in my Study Hall class, all she did was go on damn news sites and look at dresses for some strange reason. She was obsessed with celeberties and she literally nearly cried when i said i loathed country music (Which is true, can't stand that shit!) and she has a crush on nearly every boy in the school. Including me. She kept following me around like a retard last year and when i finally flipped the switch and told her to (politely) go away, she acted like i killed her mother. She likes boys so fucking much that it's a running joke that people tell their friends that she has a crush on them even if she dosen't really. I would feel sorry for her, if she wasn't so damn annoying. She also treated me like her little brother, which really pissed me off.
We had a guy at my recruiter course that was lactose intolerant, and yet insisted on having milkshakes, creamer, and cheese every day...he also had a loose definition as to what a shower consisted of. He was Mormon (not that it had anything to do with his behavior, so he would constantly make comments in class about how he loved each of us in a creepy way.
We had a class rule that instead of writing negative paperwork against you (you could only get two before they kick you out of the course), our teacher would make us sing songs. This lolcow would sing hymns in front of the entire class. He was just...awkward.
Oh boy, do I have a long, crazy story to tell. I knew a guy who was probably the closest I'll ever get to seeing someone like the interesting people we've discussed in the past in person. I'll call him Gilbert. Anyways, I met Gilbert when I was 11, and at that time, I was able to get along with him because I was an awkward kid with somewhat strange interests. Even back then, however, I could tell he was a little weird.
Gilbert was absolutely obsessed with cartoons and children's shows, talked about them all the time every single hour of the fucking day, and it was rare for him to start conversations that didn't have something to do with cartoons. He wrote crossover fanfics on fanfiction.net, and would sometimes ask me to help him out with them. It was usually stupid shit like the Rugrats becoming spies and meeting Disney characters and Bugs Bunny. I politely told him that I thought these were dumb and had no interest them, although did not intend to offend him. Surprisingly enough, he took this well, but still talked about his crossover fics from time to time, although slightly less.
Gilbert often obsessed over specific shows, characters, and movies for a certain amount of time as well. For awhile, he was completely obsessed with Rugrats, yet at the same time, had no idea what the fuck it was even about. He would make silly shit up off the top of his head and decide it was real. He would tell us that Rugrats was a show about Angelica, who he would always call "Angie" and insist people call her that. In his twisted version of the show, Angelica was a super smart girl with a Southern accent who knew karate and was a spy, who also sometimes babysat dimwitted children. He also inserted himself (The character was even named after him) in there as a toddler and said that his character was Angelica's boyfriend, and said his favorite characters had to be "Angelica, Gilbert" and some other stupid character I forgot the name of. Oh yeah and he also said that the show contained a lot of swearing.
Of course, I kindly told him I had no idea what the hell he was talking about and that the actual show was nothing like that. He still insisted it was exactly that, and was beginning to get extremely upset. He eventually told me that what I saw was probably a robot chicken skit, and at this point, he seemed like he was on the verge of a mental breakdown. For a little bit he even tried to get me to "accept" that the show was like that, or to "give it a try", as if I somehow personally insulted him. It was the most autistic situation I've ever witnessed.
He also obsessed over Thomas The Tank Engine, and would get really defensive when I said that I thought he might be a little too old to be watching that show. I guess one time when I really offended him, he took some markers and poorly drew two pictures that made Sonichu look like the Mona Lisa. One was of me about to be run over by Thomas with an evil grin on his face, and the other of "Angie" in a generic white karate robe about to deliver a flying kick into my face. I thought it was retarded and extremely fucking childish, but he got over it rather quickly and apologized to me and I somehow accepted his apology.
Like many spergs before him, Gilbert told absolutely cringe worthy jokes. One I remember was about two babies/toddlers in a daycare who thought they were the opposite gender of what they actually were, and then when their diapers got changed, they looked down and discovered they wrong. It was the most retarded joke I have ever heard being told by someone who wasn't in Kindergarten.
Gilbert had really, really overprotective parents who would only let him indulge in kid's media, and would freak out if he ever heard swearing or anything "dirty". I think his dad might have even been weary of him saying "Crap" or "Sucks", and even the words "Butt" and "Fart", the latter of which his mom thought went too far. I think they enabled his bizarre behavior, but I didn't see them too much. Even at 11-12 I couldn't discuss a lot of what I was interested in at the time.
Gilbert sperged a lot over Robot Chicken, and would beg everyone around him to not tell his parents that he watched it. He probably didn't even understand half the jokes, and probably just watched it because it's a "mature" show and makes him feel less childish.
Gilbert was not allowed to watch The Fairly Odd Parents, because he would get extremely pissed off when ever Vicky was on screen and would begin yelling and swearing at the TV screen, or "at her" as he said in his own words. As you can probably already tell, Gilbert does not do a good job of separating reality from fantasy. He even mentioned that he wished all of the things Timmy wished for went completely as planned. When I said that lack of conflict makes a show boring, he said "not for him!", obviously referring to Timmy. To me that has to be on par with Chris thinking that Toontown from Roger Rabbit is actually a real place somewhere.
It's worth mentioning Gilbert hated romance in the same exact way a young child would, and would say "Ewww", "Yuck", or "Gross" when ever somebody talked about romance and women. Keep mind, this guy was 13 when I first met him, and he turned 17 this past January. Now here's where this story takes a turn for the weird, or the even weirder rather. I began to drift away from Gilbert around the time I was 13, having my interests change, maturing, and overall just having next to nothing in common with him.
It was around this time that Gilbert became obsessed with me, and I noticed it first hand. I'm pretty sure he's never had any friends, and when I made the mistake of being nice to him and being a bit of a friend to him, he latched onto me. I don't know for sure, but that reason sounds plausible. Anyways, he would always say that he was my "best friend", even though at that time I hung out with other kids much more and rarely hung out with him anymore.
One day, while I was relaxing on my computer, I got a phone call from Gilbert. I picked up the phone and said "Hi", and he asked me when I wanted to hang out. I didn't want to, so I just told him I was busy. This is where the conversation got a lot creepier. He mentioned that instead of getting married, he wants to live with me as a roommate.
This alone already creeped me out, but did not prepare me for what he was about to do next. Gilbert got really nervous and then told me through his frantic speech something along the lines of "I.. Gah! I don't think I actually feel this way, but let's just say I enjoy your presence more than any other girl."
I hung up, being both creeped the fuck out and confused. Gilbert is seemingly asexual and hates romance, and has a third grader's understanding of sex, yet he was hitting on me. To this day I'm not even sure what the fuck he was actually doing or what he felt like. Believe it or not, that is not when I made the decision to cut contact with Gilbert. Big mistake, I know. The last time I remember seeing him in person was when I was 14 and his dad took us to eat pizza, and then to get ice cream. I accepted this because I had nothing else to do that day Again, a mistake made out of kindness.
Not only could I not talk about most of what I was interested in around these two, but the atmosphere was awkward and uncomfortable as shit. I tried to not let his dad leave us alone, and also tried not to sit directly across from Gilbert, for reasons you can probably figure out yourself. After how uncomfortable that was, I decided that was when I was going to cut all ties with Gilbert.
To this day he still occasionally calls my mom's phone, but I have since gotten a new iPhone 4 with a different number, so when I stopped answering calls on my old phone, I guess he just stopped bothering. I don't think he's stalking me, as the calls are very infrequent and only happen months apart most of the time. I've tried to find his crossover fanfics and see if he has an internet presence, but so far have found nothing.
This concludes the tale of spergery, that is of Gilbert the almighty autist. Hope all of you enjoyed reading this crazy shit.
* Gilbert had an irrational hatred of the military for reasons that made absolutely no sense. I don't even recall him giving a reason, other than that they could use the police instead or something retarded like that.
* Because of Popeye The Sailor Man, he believed that if you ate spinach in real life you would suddenly become really strong. Not even making this one up or exaggerating it in the slightest.
* Gilbert thought that McDonalds was healthy. Believe it or not, he was tall and lanky rather than fat as fuck.
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* One really weird thing he would do that I forgot to mention was that he would pace back and forth while rambling to himself about movies and TV shows, or his stupid fanfics.
EDIT again: Before he worked on his anger issues, when Gilbert would get really angry at something or someone, sometimes he would talk about how he was going to take over the world and would even chant "World domination!".
He also would talk about how he was going to buy a tank online and be unstoppable. I am making none of this up, and the kid was completely serious.
Hmm.. I wonder how you even got started to being friends with him. When he said he liked you more than any girl, maybe that didm't mean he was gay for you. Maybe he just has never had a meaningful relationship with a girl, and has never related to one successfully. Maybe thats all he meant? What is he doing now? Any chance at college/ successful life for him?
I have met autists who kind of remind me like him, high functioning people, who still seem so incapable of relating or functioning in the world around them. Is it primarily caused by just bad/incompetant parenting to any degree?
