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PDXNative1986 · 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.
BlodynHafJones · 18-21, F
You are so sad and I can’t believe you live in the same country I do. Our teachers are good at their jobs and when we’re 14 we get to study where we like. So I’m in Art School four days and school one. @PDXNative1986
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@BlodynHafJones You're in England from the looks of it. British education is a lot better than American.
I cannot even comprehend what i've lost for being born on this side of the altantic... it's just too profound.
There's a reason why I wanted to adopt you guys as my choosen country but I am not british by birth I'm a native of The west coast of the united states.
Oregon. Not wales, not england.
A school in wales is going to be way ahead of the schools I attended...
I cannot even comprehend what i've lost for being born on this side of the altantic... it's just too profound.
There's a reason why I wanted to adopt you guys as my choosen country but I am not british by birth I'm a native of The west coast of the united states.
Oregon. Not wales, not england.
A school in wales is going to be way ahead of the schools I attended...
BlodynHafJones · 18-21, F
No. I’m in Wales. And before you say it, it ain’t the same. Each country in the British Isles looks after its own education system. @PDXNative1986
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@BlodynHafJones Generally speaking Britain does a better job of recognizing when a Student is gifted even though they have a "learning disability."
I was diagnosed formally with Asperger's Syndrome at 13 and largely got placed in boring remedial courses largely because I was not doing home work so they just thought I was dumb because my grades weren't that good.
The educational system we have forces children who should rightfully be hanging out with their friends for most of that time and learning social skills ESPECIALLY An autistic child like me by night to spend 4 hours or more doing homework. our children are largely overwhelmed and incapable of dealing with the levels of stress in high school and they're talking about competing with China but China is not just 50 years behind in terms of progressive values they're 119 years behind at this point. Think 1900...
Not even 1950. They have the kids working the tractors... Child labor, there was NEVER any corresponding push in China against child labor as there was in America.
You really think America can compete with that? it's an unrealistic goal.
and yet we're trying to force the kids to beat them by what? foisting so much homework on them that many of them start to break an essentially commit suicide in many of the suburbs because they cannot handle the pressure we've put our kids under.
If you want to understand the american education system watch Race to nowhere, and don't listen to it's critics.
At least in the British isles my low grades coupled with sky high Test scores would have triggered SOMETHING that largely have told them I wasn't being challenged, Not stupid, Academic perforamce is not an indicator of intelligence, that C and D - student is way smarter than some of your A+ kids.
He's just not applying himself , his father was the Elite in 1950 do you really think the upper 1% of intellectuals raised a dumb kid?
I was diagnosed formally with Asperger's Syndrome at 13 and largely got placed in boring remedial courses largely because I was not doing home work so they just thought I was dumb because my grades weren't that good.
The educational system we have forces children who should rightfully be hanging out with their friends for most of that time and learning social skills ESPECIALLY An autistic child like me by night to spend 4 hours or more doing homework. our children are largely overwhelmed and incapable of dealing with the levels of stress in high school and they're talking about competing with China but China is not just 50 years behind in terms of progressive values they're 119 years behind at this point. Think 1900...
Not even 1950. They have the kids working the tractors... Child labor, there was NEVER any corresponding push in China against child labor as there was in America.
You really think America can compete with that? it's an unrealistic goal.
and yet we're trying to force the kids to beat them by what? foisting so much homework on them that many of them start to break an essentially commit suicide in many of the suburbs because they cannot handle the pressure we've put our kids under.
If you want to understand the american education system watch Race to nowhere, and don't listen to it's critics.
At least in the British isles my low grades coupled with sky high Test scores would have triggered SOMETHING that largely have told them I wasn't being challenged, Not stupid, Academic perforamce is not an indicator of intelligence, that C and D - student is way smarter than some of your A+ kids.
He's just not applying himself , his father was the Elite in 1950 do you really think the upper 1% of intellectuals raised a dumb kid?
BlodynHafJones · 18-21, F
I have no idea. Things ain’t perfect here. But my college is full of autistic and Asperger’s kids. Dyslexic, dyspraxic. All doing well and loved. I have help in lectures because my first language is Welsh and the lectures are in English and I cant make notes quick enough. @PDXNative1986
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@BlodynHafJones from what I understand the united kingdom have been way ahead as far as making accommodations. we had to fight for mine, tooth and nail and suffered setbacks along the way because some doctors didn't know what aspergers was and just thought I was normal and only acted out because my mother was a codepenent enabler. We had to find other experts to refute what they said... it took years.
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@BlodynHafJones [media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kXbDIRcJ_s]
BlodynHafJones · 18-21, F
Aspergers is just something you are. It’s we don’t care. We love you for it! @PDXNative1986
PDXNative1986 · 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.
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
@BlodynHafJones [media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexCWZPJE6A]