I’m very lucky, I had a few special teachers in school who just let me be me and that really helped. I also had teachers who wanted to fit me through the square hole in life and that sucked. I’m not that shape, never have been, and never could be.

Now that we know so more I hope the kids these days get the space and environment they need to thrive. Building a healthy society takes all shapes of people working together.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

Would have been cool if I ever had a teacher who gave me a break

Turns out they were wrong, the majority of things in life are in fact optional

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Personally as much as the teachers didn't help it'd have been better if the classmates were more accepting. Mean you hoped the teachers would be nice but classmates were the issue usually. Cause who were you friends with besides classmates, the teacher? Or just books? Mean had a couple friends but very few so was mostly books for me.

I can look back now and see a few teachers were nice and tried to push me towards a different attitude but I honestly could not understand it at the time and I could probably never mask myself well enough to fit in. I had a very different perspective on the situation and nowadays I don't really think too harshly on classmates that acted like regular kids. Mean unless they repeatedly harassed me but that's a other issue. This was the early 90s mostly so long time ago, I've figured out things better but it took some time for sure.