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Neurodivergent 20h
“Why are you afraid to ask questions?” Oh idk maybe cause my whole childhood consisted of everyone getting unreasonably annoyed whenever I asked a question
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Anonymous 18h

Still deal with that to this day

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Anonymous 18h

Yeah like when I asked my racist parents why does it matter if black people live in the same neighborhood as us.

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Anonymous 17h

Acted like I was a child even as an adult .. saying you’re too immature… from 13-26 😭😭

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Anonymous 17h

same except i find people’s responses/ reactions funny when they’ve deemed i’ve already asked too many questions meanwhile i have 7 more brewing

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Anonymous 18h

THISDSS

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Anonymous 16h

I was also taught (indirectly) that people wouldn’t help me if I did

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Anonymous 17h

Okay so I’m not crazy?

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Anonymous 15h

I’m very lucky my dad (also autistic) was big into “find out the why” but it’s gotten me into trouble outside of my family. In middle school I was two years ahead in math and getting an A but I didn’t understand why the equations worked the way they did so I went to tutoring to find out why math worked. Same thing in high school when I was in calculus, it took taking physics for it to make sense. I try to tell people now that it’s the same thing. I know things, but I want to know WHY things

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Anonymous 10h

Yeah like why does it matter why if I wanna ask clarification?? Please I just want to understand better??

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Anonymous 11h

For me, it was mostly in classrooms. If you asked a question, the teacher assumed you were either stupid or not paying attention

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 16h

No fr. I’m 26 and when I openly disagree with my mom she says “stop talking to me like you’re 13” and I just have to sit there with my jaw on the floor

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 16h

see friend, you’re not helping our case😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 16h

It’s exactly when we get told go figure it out then when we don’t do it fast enough we get asked why didn’t we ask questions about it

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16h

For me it’s a very specific incident. So I’m a runner and I’ve been running since I was 6 and one time when I was around that age I was running at practice and I well and cut my knee open. I very distinctly remember my coach saying “get up, I’m not carrying you back, get up, get up” and in my mind that took as some will help me

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 16h

Of course I was crying and very upset but nooo

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 15h

Ough this is so real- the ‘find out the why’ part of my brain is sedated a lil bc sometimes lesson plans have you learn the thing and make the connection later, so if I try to connect now, I’ll wind up just getting lost

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 15h

I love when teachers include lesson objectives in their slides. Most of mine have them on the syllabus or the online module page

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14h

Ah yeah, mostly by my family 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 11h

i have to be super unserious about this kinda stuff bc if i’m not i’ll take it super personal & cry tbh 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 10h

God bless you… 😂👏😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 10h

you know what, that’s so real. i understand 😭

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