The amount of people losing their shit over a mathematician saying "there are instances where 2+2=5" is why you will never be able to convince transphobes to stop oppressing trans people
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I really do think public education is important but the extent to which it has caused people to smugly embrace simplifications of reality like "2+2=4, there are only two sexes, Columbus discovered America" really, really makes me resent it
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
The private education they'd have goten if it didn't exist would be far worse
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yeah, that's what I have to tell myself, but I feel like there just has to be another way better than just lying to students
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I seriously do feel like writing this up at some point -- I think this is a neurodiversity thing I've seen so much stuff lecturing educators -- and adults in general, parents especially -- never to "talk over the heads" of kids, to adjust their language to an appropriate level
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And maybe it's because I was "gifted" and "accelerated" from a young age anyway but I could always tell when this was being done to me and I hated it What I liked best was people who had the understanding and patience to actually, genuinely explain things
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The worst thing of those elementary 'gifted' years, in my opinion, is that there was no push to excel. I'd love to know what I could have accomplished if instead of accolades for doing the expected work quickly, I had been pushed to a level of discomfort.
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We had a computer program where we had to do math lessons for an hour a week, ordered by expected grade level. I blew through the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th grades during 4th grade, but in math class I just went back to 4th grade.
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Yeah one of my fun stories is as a small child getting a spelling workbook and finding the whole concept of practicing spelling so insufferable I just sat down and did all the exercises in the whole book in one afternoon
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My parents being like "Wow, you really love that book huh" and I was like "No, I hate it, which is why if I do it all NOW I'll never have to look at it again" (It's so hard to explain hyperfocus to normies)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Yeah... hyperfocus is one of the blessings and curses of this brain.
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I always wonder how much of my life's trajectory is just due to one random fixation I had at a young age.
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