Did you fit in a school?

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I had an iability to fit in at high school. My english/tutorial teacher loathed me.
He always made a public joke out of me because I'm supposadly 'odd'. He would mock any thing I became interested in and because he thought I was queer all the other people ribbed me.
It all started because intially I was obssesive about fishing and all I would talk about is fishing.
Then throughout the years I developed different interests and he would be cruel about what I liked.

For instance I became infatuated with Gary Numan (who also has Aspergers) and he began to call me names like 'Moog'.
So I was wondering if this has happened to others?

Oh it was suggested by college counciller that i had mild Aspergers and mild dyslexia.

A teacher ridicules you for that? And it's bad enough that every student ridiculed me.

Moog because of the synthesizer?

Yeah. And because of asking allegeded 'irevelavent' questions and my inability to do homework.

Well generally i would say i didnt really fit in with everyone else. They all thought i was quiet and nerdy (for want of a better word). But I was fortunate to have a group of similarly unfitting people and we all happen to be more interesting than most people. In our opinions. As for being victimised by a teacher, that never happened to me. The closest I got was Mr Howard who regularly called me 'the laziest s**t hes ever met' which might be offensive but was essentially true. I did nothing at all in his lesson mostly because it was a colossal waste of time. The Mr Smith could be a twat sometimes as well

Well Harry at our school I think I was considered odd by their odd. I almost didn't fit like michlle didn't. But I guess I had other redeming features.

Did I ever fit in high school? Hell! No! No way! Not a chance!

It's been decades but I didn't realize how much I'm still affected until I saw a Drew Barrymoore movie on TV a few days ago. I forget the title but it's the one where she goes back to High School as an undercover newspaper reporter, encounters a lot of the same sh** I did back then amongst her school mates, and even relives the painful memories of the "Josie" character she played.

Can anyone refresh me on it's title, please? I want to rent it and face some old demons. Will post about it on another thread.

Never been kissed. Or something from the same cheese festered vein they named 'romantic comedy'.

ramsamsam,

Yes, that's it. Never Been Kissed. I just found it in the video store. Thanks for the refresher.

There are a few teachers who I know well enough to let them make fun of me, and they only do it when they're sure I'm laughing along with them as well. And then there are a few teachers who can't stand my guts. I'm especially talkative (and controversial) during our government class and can manage to monopolize debates fairly easily (I guess no one else has taken Logic 101 yet... ), so pretty much everyone in that class dislikes me. But I guess it's all worth it because none of my friends are in that class. People also dislike me in English class, but they're just jealous.

That sounds familiar. In both my high school government and world history classes, there was only one person in each class who had a chance against me. In my junior year world history class, it was an exchange student from eastern Germany, and he was a devout communist. We got along very well since we were the only ones in the class who could challenge each other intellectually (the teacher couldn't). When we were studying events from 1917 on, we often worked together in group assignments and did them from the communist block perspective since that was worth more points. The debates were many, and they were always friendly (the teacher often shut us down becuse nobody else in the class could follow what we were talking about ).

There's only one other person in my class who can consistently keep up with the debates, and I really wish that the teacher would be able to keep up with what's going on in the class. Seriously.

hahaha, I too did this. I was more or less the only conservative thinker and I was battling (mostly) apathetic leftists (a few were devoted and would fight in class). Good times. Some Black guys automatically decided that I must be a racist since I disagree with them on social/foreign policy. So any time I would profess how all men (and women) were created equal and are must be protected under the Constitution's 14 ammendment equal protection clause they would ask things like (does that include people from Africa too?). Ridiculous! They were the racists. I never once cared for silly racial divisions. I even satirized them by claiming liberals want "equal protection" for all -by forming this (satirical) government group to specifically protect arabs post 9/11. (I deplore the idea of unequal treatment for anyone!) This is the type of garbage they back day in and day out (affirmative action etc), and when I pointed out that this is a continuation of the insane policies they were already pursuing, they thought I was insensitive when this is their mantra 24/7.

fools - but good times. Unfortunately they decided to have their own stereotypes without basis. I used to respect some of those people deeply for their achievements (while competing against me and others), but I lost all that when they defacto decided I had to be a racist because I would not beg at the alter of diversity.

I didn't fit at my school. I was far apart from other people. But for some reason I was considered "cool" without being traditionally "cool". Maybe it's because they like oddness (my teachers asociatte oddness and controversy with genious, so...)

Thread title "Did you fit in a school"... was that a typo? The first thing I thought of was physical size, like in Alice in Wonderland where Alice was inside that house and then she grew as big as said house, arms legs & head sticking out the roof and windows/door...

I piss off people instantly by my unintentional rudeness. If you are a serial killer but are polite have a nice smile, you will be loved. Strange how the world works. I never fit in anwhere and never will. I went back to college and boy I really don't fit in. THis place is full of some nerdy types like me, but I am extreme. Nothing worse than not having anyone to eat with or sitting in the front of a 200-300 person lecture class before class, and not having anyone to talk to in that crown of laughing and talking and socializing. Somone posted that article of a wrongplanet member who went postal, who had said he didn't have friends, only enemies. I feel that way too. I keep yeeling out I hate myself and I want to die. This sucks.I can't even amke friends with the emotional fuckups in this school.