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BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP
At least you're home for the weekend but honestly That sucks.
Sorry!
unless you're one of the weird kids who likes school.
I hated it. Not really because I don't like learning, I wouldn't be studying the crap out of Japanese if I hated learning or thinking about buying a course to get A+ certified from CompTIA next month.
I love to learn, although it has been a bit of a hassle to stay disciplined, but I've found the secret is just I need a kick in the pants that reminds me of why I'm motivated that is capable of overwhelming my resistance, what happened this time that has kept me consistent for about 2 weeks now is that I realized the basic Kanji could be at least entered into your short term memory in 3 months with the right method of study.
I just largely wasn't interested in the shit they taught us in school. I didn't get the benefit of a teacher who knew how to make math anything but a long and painful slough.
We don't really have a lot of Talented teachers in this country with a passion for it because of how poorly we pay them, we undervalue education. it's an enormous shame.
That stated really school sucks, and honestly does a poor job of preparing kids these days for the employment world because the whole educational model as created during a time when machines could only do so much of the work and you needed human extensions to guide the machines so you had to create people who were part of the machine.
Now people are really in control of their own destinies and the machines can do almost if not all the work in many contexts and automation is only going to accelerate.
I for one am drawn to self study and autodidact ism as well as certification over degree.
I've found I largely have to teach myself things because everything else is so expensive and I don't want to go into debt.
Sorry!
unless you're one of the weird kids who likes school.
I hated it. Not really because I don't like learning, I wouldn't be studying the crap out of Japanese if I hated learning or thinking about buying a course to get A+ certified from CompTIA next month.
I love to learn, although it has been a bit of a hassle to stay disciplined, but I've found the secret is just I need a kick in the pants that reminds me of why I'm motivated that is capable of overwhelming my resistance, what happened this time that has kept me consistent for about 2 weeks now is that I realized the basic Kanji could be at least entered into your short term memory in 3 months with the right method of study.
I just largely wasn't interested in the shit they taught us in school. I didn't get the benefit of a teacher who knew how to make math anything but a long and painful slough.
We don't really have a lot of Talented teachers in this country with a passion for it because of how poorly we pay them, we undervalue education. it's an enormous shame.
That stated really school sucks, and honestly does a poor job of preparing kids these days for the employment world because the whole educational model as created during a time when machines could only do so much of the work and you needed human extensions to guide the machines so you had to create people who were part of the machine.
Now people are really in control of their own destinies and the machines can do almost if not all the work in many contexts and automation is only going to accelerate.
I for one am drawn to self study and autodidact ism as well as certification over degree.
I've found I largely have to teach myself things because everything else is so expensive and I don't want to go into debt.
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BlodynHafJones · 18-21, F
Aspergers is just something you are. It’s we don’t care. We love you for it! @BetweenKittensandRiots
BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP
@BlodynHafJones I didn't feel loved as a child... my peers bullied me...
my sister says that I largely did not participate in school activity as a child and sat in the corner and tore on the fibers in the rug.
She seems to think that made me a difficult child to be around.
The problem with that is I was perceived as not participating because of the fact that I was in that corner and not watching my teacher but listening to her and fidgeting with something (IF they had just handed me a paper clip instead? jesus those things used to provide hours of stimming release as a kid....)
OF course the fact that I appeared to be absorbed by the paper clip would have lead the other kids into thinking I didn't pay fuck of any attention to what was happening but of course i'm not like them, just because I'm not looking at Sensei does not mean I am not paying attention to her.
I make Eye contact, NOW. I didn't as a child.
I've learned. It's just... I was tormented, and it .... they never let up. I changed, I got better I turned into the more mature of the two, grew up quicker than they did and they wouldn't leave me alone because of things that had happened 5 or 6 years prior.
I didn't do anything that deserved the scale of what happened to me but I hated school an my peers were a huge part of why.
They just assumed stupid shit.
"Paul isn't staring at the teacher like the rest of us... Therefore paul isn't paying attention to teacher."
And we know that's what they thought because that's what they told my older sister when she entered the class room.
that's one of the first things they tell parents of autistic children, you might be inclined to think if he's not making eye contact he's not paying attention but he probably is... He's just not looking at you.
Yeah my stims sometimes destroy property...
or mess up my hair... I just need better ones.. some other way of letting go of exesss energy due to excitement.
my sister says that I largely did not participate in school activity as a child and sat in the corner and tore on the fibers in the rug.
She seems to think that made me a difficult child to be around.
The problem with that is I was perceived as not participating because of the fact that I was in that corner and not watching my teacher but listening to her and fidgeting with something (IF they had just handed me a paper clip instead? jesus those things used to provide hours of stimming release as a kid....)
OF course the fact that I appeared to be absorbed by the paper clip would have lead the other kids into thinking I didn't pay fuck of any attention to what was happening but of course i'm not like them, just because I'm not looking at Sensei does not mean I am not paying attention to her.
I make Eye contact, NOW. I didn't as a child.
I've learned. It's just... I was tormented, and it .... they never let up. I changed, I got better I turned into the more mature of the two, grew up quicker than they did and they wouldn't leave me alone because of things that had happened 5 or 6 years prior.
I didn't do anything that deserved the scale of what happened to me but I hated school an my peers were a huge part of why.
They just assumed stupid shit.
"Paul isn't staring at the teacher like the rest of us... Therefore paul isn't paying attention to teacher."
And we know that's what they thought because that's what they told my older sister when she entered the class room.
that's one of the first things they tell parents of autistic children, you might be inclined to think if he's not making eye contact he's not paying attention but he probably is... He's just not looking at you.
Yeah my stims sometimes destroy property...
or mess up my hair... I just need better ones.. some other way of letting go of exesss energy due to excitement.
BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP
@BlodynHafJones [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexCWZPJE6A]