teachers have to explain things better..

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alot of times in school the whole class but me would understand something. i think i understand it, then i do the whole paper wrong!!
its like i thought i was doing it right but then i have to get made fun of for not graphing the paper correctly, im supposed to just "know" to do a certain thing?
i SWEAR i did exactly what he said, but he said something else only the others ears could hear.


teachers have to explain things better..

this sounds just like me, i use to never ask for help cause i didn't want to look dumb, just try to talk in pravit welcome to wrong planet.

its really hard to get me to understand something..

its easier to show me

Story of my life! I am in my 20's and in college so I am incredibly embarrassed to ask for help..although lately I am trying to get better at asking for help. Actually just today I asked for help on a paper..I asked my group members and they laughed at me and kind of made fun of me for it. So then I got the courage to ask my professor and he put me off and said he'd explain it to the whole class later, but he never did. So then I had to ask again near the end of class and he still did not answer me directly just kind of skimmed over it. I still have no idea..I don't understand it.

It seems I always never understand the really simple things..Like I literally have a hard time grasping the easier concepts. Last semester I did this also and had to get the help of a professor (who i think works with autistic people) and even he seemed to be annoyed at me for being so stupid :/

so yes, i can relate to you very much. im sorry you have to go through this, it is no fun feeling like you are an outsider.

I have this too.

Thing is, I don't like to make assumptions.

The rest of the class make an assumption about what something says and most of the time get it right. I tease out every single possible assumption out of a piece of text and have it all explained crystal clearly.

Thing is.. sometimes they don't make the assumption right and I end up right and all of them wrong.... because I got it explained.

When I was a kid I used to ask lots of questions cuz I always wanted to know "Why?" I stopped when other kids made fun of me for it.