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My second grade teacher told me that negative numbers don't exist.
She was trying to communicate that you can't have a negative quantity of something (pencils in this case) but I had just learned about negative numbers in my own time and her words indicated that the concept wasn't real, even if that wasn't her intent. At the time, I found the exchange very upsetting.