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    4 days ago

    Yep, am autistic, can confirm.

    As with Union of Kobolds, I eventually got into the ‘gifted’ program… they even had me as a 2nd and 3rd grader basically being an unpaid tutor for 4th and 5th graders, sitting in the hallway, helping kids with reading difficulties (in all liklihood, undiagnosed dyslexia) read through kids books.

    But, there’s always classes and teachers not part of the gifted program, and they’re often difficult and wrong and rude for no reason.

    I still remember a chemistry teacher getting very angry with me for even bringing up quantum scale electron clouds as a model of atoms.

    Not allowed to go beyond the Rutherford-Bohr model, even in discussion, always dismissive and rude, incapable of saying just ‘yes that is a more accurate model, but it is far too complex to go over without understanding Rutherford-Bohr first’.