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CockneyRebel
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16 Aug 2024, 4:33 am

My favourite class was Art when I was in high school.


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18 Aug 2024, 7:31 am

I like history at school but was bullied about every day at mainstream school by pupils and teachers alike. The extra humiliation was when I was mainstreamed in 1977 I was put a year behind. Not only that I was put in with the less able kids at the time and had to do that work. I really didn't enjoy school with all that going on. However in 1983 I did teach myself chemistry to a level post O Level (or after 1988 post higher tier GCSE) within about 6 months. I did that during the school holidays and in the 6th form I decided to do a chemistry A level course. I didn't complete that because I had left school in 1984. I left school with 6 CSEs of low grades (which are equivalent to foundation GCSE courses post 1988). I did like history and even got a top mark in a history test one time on medieval history. But the CSE result was only a grade 4 which wasn't worth the paper it was written on. I at college done a unit in Chemistry with very high exam results and I answered the questions that the tutor asked. I also done a bit of physics and mathematics but I had to drop out of the course as I had to pay for that myself and didn't have the money. Evev the head of science at the college said my exam results were very good. Mathematics I didn't know factorising very well and was like a rabbit in a head light. I had a bully of a maths teacher at secondary school who used to yell at me or humiliate me in front of the class. Actually that class from 1983-84 had the same predator (bullies are predators too) teaching CSE arithmetic. I had him as a maths teacher for 3 years. Before that one the Asian teacher couldn't teach. Also during 1983-84 I was experiencing temporal lobe seizures which was diagnosed as epilepsy back in 1987 in Oxford. 40 years later I done maths from YouTube videos which have better teachers/tutors than I had at school. I have since taught myself factorising which is needed for solving quadratic equations simplifying rational expressions in turn needed for evaluating limits which is needed for a calculus class. I also taught myself that the slope of a tangent line touching a curve is its derivative at aparticular point. If I did that later work much earlier I may had had a worse epilepsy or more seizures than I did which could get me accused of faking epilepsy for attention (gaslighting that is). I eventually started to teach myself calculus as well despite not doing calculus at school or college. Also maintaining an epileptic remission whilst doing so using a better anti epilepsy medicine than carbamazepine.



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07 Oct 2024, 8:55 am

Art
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Art for both high school and college. I was a long ways from being the best, but in high school, I spent lunch time and study halls in the art room. This was decades before I knew I was on the spectrum. And Art? For me it all started with horror movies. Eighth grade teacher quote: "Do you ever drawn anything other than monsters?"
Nine grade teacher, after seeing me draw a still life before I got glasses: "Have you ever heard of Salvador Dali?" That started my branching out from monsters and as my tenth and eleven grade teacher told him at the time: "Don't show him that. You're going to ruin him." I was really attached to my tenth and eleventh grade teacher. She was old, short, gray bob cut hair, and large glasses. I adored her, and she was the first person to tell me "You know, you're really not a painter." She was right. It didn't stop me. The discovery of computers about four years later did that.
I was also in advance math classes in high school. I don't think I was very good. I did all the work in my head, didn't show my work, and was not always right. I could not remember concepts. I had to figure it out each time.
I always enjoyed math, but as I said, I was not very good. In hindsight, there were several students who wer on the spectrum in my class. I'm basing that on memories of their behavior. My math teacher was patient and wonderful.
I also enjoyed my English classes, but that was because the teachers were always nice. One fed my interest in horror films.