Are you really retarted?
I just got out of my Child Development class. We're in the chapter which talks about mental and cognitive development beginning at an early age. Dr. Ganapathy introduced us to the terms related to this chapter on Tuesday, and we had a review this morning. Two of the terms which we're focusing on are called "Adaptation" and "Accommodation". The latter refers to a process by which an individual accommodates for a new situation or new information. It is characterized by mental unequalibrium. Id est, being mentally bunted off kilter when an unfamiliar situation is presented to someone. Dr. Ganapathy asked for personal examples of this concept, at which point I completely gave myself away. This was a great time to do it, though. As soon as I said it, I could hear the mental gongs about the room being rapped. It was quite amusing for me, and it took a lot of self confidence not to look around at all the bewilderment that was publicized on everyone's face.
I raised my hand.
"I was homeschooled for 12 years. When I got to college I went through a lot of behavioral and emotional accommodation to adjust to everyone's schedule, and the stereotypical conduct of teacher/professor to student, and student to student."
After I got out of the building, and I started back to my room, one of the girls that sits behind me in the class was asking if I had been involved in any social or extracurricular activities as a middle/high schooler. I gave her a laconic history, being as formal and discreet as can be, to which she replied, "I have a cousin who is home schooled, and you're not like her. You're, like...Verbal. You aren't weird, and you talk to people."
I guess if we all have to be thankful for the lemons life gives us, the lemonade I've decided to constitute is that the statement I made in class is a great way to be noticed: "I was home schooled for 12 years." I'd say that puts me at a social ADvantage.
I raised my hand.
"I was homeschooled for 12 years. When I got to college I went through a lot of behavioral and emotional accommodation to adjust to everyone's schedule, and the stereotypical conduct of teacher/professor to student, and student to student."
After I got out of the building, and I started back to my room, one of the girls that sits behind me in the class was asking if I had been involved in any social or extracurricular activities as a middle/high schooler. I gave her a laconic history, being as formal and discreet as can be, to which she replied, "I have a cousin who is home schooled, and you're not like her. You're, like...Verbal. You aren't weird, and you talk to people."
I guess if we all have to be thankful for the lemons life gives us, the lemonade I've decided to constitute is that the statement I made in class is a great way to be noticed: "I was home schooled for 12 years." I'd say that puts me at a social ADvantage.