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[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 22 points 13 hours ago

I used the word poesy in a written assignment, as in the art of poetry. The teacher didn't recognize it as a real word and deducted points from my grade. She had a policy that we could correct and resubmit for half points, so I did that but didn't change the word, I just helpfully gave her the definition in a footnote.

Shocked, naive, innocent little me didn't not know what to think when she took that as an insult. I was only trying to help her, didn't she get that?!?

This was one of a handful of events when my sister started implying I might have a neurospicy brain. IDK, maybe, but I was just being accurate so I didn't really see that as anything I needes to address. I thought the overly-sensitive and factually incorrect teacher was the one who needed to self-reflect.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

Had the same with an english teacher (in germany), that probably had a smaller vocabulary than me. Whenever I used words she didn't know I had to argue with her and pull out a dictionary

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

neurospicy brain

Hey I have one of these. Maybe not in the typical way, but still. So don't worry.

For reasons like you describe where neurotypicals aren't always exactly known for being critical, sometimes I think of how accurate it might be under some definitions to say neurotypicals are the faultily-minded ones.

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