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MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Hi,

I would have failed every single one of your tests. Not because I don’t understand the material, or the English language, but because structured writing, to this day, makes me seize up. Blank space is one of my biggest triggers for executive dysfunction/PDA. Turning everything into a cookie-cutter essay is just a different form of trying to fit everyone into the same box. More selective than making everything multiple guess, but no better. I feel bad for your students.

Signed,

Former “gifted” kid (with then-undiagnosed AuDHD) who got sick of bad teachers 30+ years ago

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dash_jackson@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah idk I think if you’re in academia you should be able to produce a five paragraph essay. Being able to produce a narrative is an essential life skill. The world isn’t going to cater to your self diagnosed executive dysfunction forever so learning to adapt is probably a useful habit.

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- MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  if you’re in academia you should be able to produce a five paragraph essay.
  
  So, K-12 is “academia” now?
  
  Being able to produce a narrative is an essential life skill.
  
  Lots of essential life skills are difficult for lots of people. Something we get reminded about every time it comes up by people who have no clue what they’re talking about yet see fit to tell others what they should and shouldn’t do, and how to feel about it.
  
  The world isn’t going to cater to you
  
  No fucking shit.
  
  your self diagnosed executive dysfunction
  
  I’m sorry Dr. Jackson, I’ll have to let my old neurologist, psychologist, neuropsychologist, and psychiatrist know that The Internet told me that the assessments I had done at ages 23 and 44 are all in my head.
  
  learning to adapt is probably a useful habit.
  
  You’re right! I’m just going to do that instead of being in constant psychological agony. Where were you all of my life? ❤️ If only I had someone talking down to me saying Just Do The Thing over and over again, from childhood onwards, life would have been so much easier.
  
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Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

bad teachers 30+ years ago

I might have an idea why you freeze up with structured writing to this day, and I think it might have less to do with disabilities than you imply.

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- MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  …so you just gonna leave everyone in suspense? The internet loves armchair psychology!
  
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  - Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The answer is in the reply.
    
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tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There are good teachers, and there are good methods for writing essays. Did anyone ever give you a graphic organizer to plan an essay? You should know how to put an essay together after coming up with an organized outline, and you should never write an essay from beginning to end without planning it out first in some way or another.

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