• irmoz@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    When my teacher took me aside after a lesson, and told me I need to “tone down the Kyle (my name)”. Basically, “stop being yourself, you’re annoying everyone”. Has a different flavour now, over 10 years later, with me discovering recently I might be autistic.

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      1 year ago

      …“tone down the Kyle…”

      Harsh! But it also put me in mind of a couple kids in my daughter’s class. They are twin boys and clearly suffer from ADHD. At a recent Pokemon card game event, the instructor told them, “You guys are just like a 12 outta 5, aren’t ya…”