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[eclectify]

Had an amusing insult thrown my way today by a girl from work. She told me to "Shut up and fit in" when I was describing my Synaesthesia. It was interesting to me that it was okay for them to talk about going to the doctor to gets meds for mild depression but me talking about things they'd never heard of and what they called "freak mental illnesses

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[sostrangechild]

Personally, I think Synaesthesia is awesome. One of my friends can describe the colours of people's voices. From memory, I think mine was a moss green and blue. Anyway, you shouldn't have to put up with idiots like that, but unfortunately, it's a part of life.

People say true bisexuals don't exist and it's just a midway point for attention-seeking teenagers and fence-sitters. So it doesn't surprise me that people don't believe in asexuals either. To be honest, I don't care what anyone's sexual orientation is, as long as they're nice to me and I'm nice to them, it's all good.

Anyway, sorry to hear about the nitwits. Just mind-screw them and it'll be allllll good.

[eclectify]

*grins* I respond well to people with voices in the more cool tone spectrum. They're soothing.

I think people would get a long a hell of a lot better if they thought like you did. I mean, personalities clash and all that but a little bit of acceptance goes a long way.

See. I accept my workmates are idiots. Problem solved! *winks*

[sostrangechild]

Yes, a soothing coloured voice! Excellent. :) But does it interfere with things? I can imagine it might have been difficult with teachers when you were little. (You don't have to answer that question - it's rather personal.)

I'll only get snarky and nasty if someone's been snarky and nasty to me. But yeah, a bit of acceptance would do the world good.

Problem solved indeed!

[eclectify]

I don't mind answering your question :D

It was hard. Coupled with the fact that I was very blunt, out spoken and ahead two years of my age group, most of the teachers treated me rather poorly, I had a couple of really good teachers though who encouraged me to talk more in terms of how I saw things which was good!

[sostrangechild]

That would have been horrible. Things like that can crush a child's desire to learn and be themselves. I'm glad that you got some good teachers in between - everyone deserves to be accepted by their teacher! (One particularly prominent memory of mine was being told in primary school that "I couldn't draw properly" and that I "wasn't creative" and "would never be an artist".)

So yeah, I'm horrified at how younger generations are being treated at times. Sure, there are a lot of brats out there, but there are kids who need the attention. And the fact that schools will do little to nothing to stop bullying. Really, it tears me up.

[eclectify]

Oh. No wonder that memory is so prominent. That's is an unbelievably cruel thing to say to a child. Some teachers...adults in general really...just don't understand that every little thing said to a child, especially one trying to express themselves creatively, is stored away forever and impacts them far after the words have been said. Grrr, it get's me angry just talking about it!

I mean, I have no patience for teaching myself but I totally can recognise what is good teaching and bad for sure.

[sostrangechild]

It was cruel. It hurt me badly back then. It makes me think of how many other kids have had their creativity crushed by bad teachers. I was EIGHT or so years old. How can an eight-year-old be evaluated by one drawing on the spot and have their future decided then and there?! NOW I'M ANGRY. Gahhh.

The good thing is that I wasn't completely crushed, because she'd already proven herself to be a terrible teacher earlier in the year for failing all of my spelling tests because I didn't write in block letters. I wrote in perfectly legible running writing until I gave up and wrote in block. So I kept drawing and just ignored her from then on. Stupid cow.

Good lord, I wouldn't last a day teaching primary school children. They'd use me as play equipment - long, skinny arms over a metre and a half from the ground seem to be SO MUCH FUN to swing off. :/

Anyway, off topic and I should stop spamming your journal. Sorry.