ADHD is the true anarchist spirit.
When I was in the third grade, I had a teacher tell me it was okay we pushed the natives off the land because we made more efficient use of it, and could therefore carry a greater population.
In the previous grade the teacher passed around a worksheet, and we had to choose which jobs were most suited to what gender.
Oh what a glorious whitebread bublefuck town I grew up in!
My second grade teacher taught us the civil war was because of a disagreement over state’s rights.
The same teacher marked me and a few other students down for completing a subtraction assignment using negative numbers. She explained we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn’t do it.
Edit: I forgot one! My third grade teacher marked me down for not knowing how much a hen weighed. It wasn’t a joke. Apparently there was a rule of thumb for estimating chicken weight. Any kids who weren’t raised on a farm missed the question.
my mom didn’t want me playing pokemon because it “taught evolution”
Its weird cuz evolution in Pokemon is more akin to metamorposes or even just basic puberty except theres sometimes 1 extra step XD
How fun would it be to have an entirely breeding focused game of Pokemon that was about evolution, though? You want an ivysaur? Selectively breed these bulbasaurs that kind of look more like an ivysaur!
Pal world was kinda like that. Might be worth checking out. I had fun with it
The concept of “fun” has been trademarked by the Nintendo corporation. Your trial will being soon.
in the US au last you have to be actively using a trademark in order to defend it in court
R/whoosh
You’re trial will being soon!
~fucking calling me names…~
Same with Autism, I will hyperfixate Rome, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany and I will call out the similarities between them and the United States. I also got into a verbal fight with some kid in middle school because I wasn’t going to play nice with his creationism BS unlike the teacher who danced around it, the only reason he didn’t attack me was because I would probably throw him around like a ragdoll.
Bullshit. There’s more propaganda online.
Now. There wasn’t always an online. Even once there was, back in my day, sonny, it wasn’t always filled with inescapable propaganda. That all started in the 2010s.
Before that you would get some stupid ass chain email from your weird uncle and be like “does he really think I’m reading this bullshit?” lulz
I also tied onions around my belt.
I remember the internet before Trump won in 2016. It was a different place.
Church alone does more brainwashing than any secular source
I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance because I was hyperfixated on the Eragon books and it seemed too similar to swearing loyalty to Galbatorix.
it’s literal brainwashing. Americans laugh at the NK people having to praise Dear Daddy, but then every morning in school, they cite the pledge of allegiance. Why would you want to be allied with one of the worst countries in modern history? Fuck that.
What happens in North Korea if they refuse to do something like the pledge?
What happens in America tomorrow if we refuse to say the pledge?
Tomorrow? Like Monday? Nothing happens if kids refuse to say the pledge of allegiance in America on Monday. They just don’t say it.
There’s always tomorrow.
You’re pretending that America can’t be turned into a place with similarities to N. Korea, when the wealthy and powerful are clearly trying to steer us that direction. Yes, it’s perfectly valid to draw such comparisons, especially when we are using them as a warning for ourselves.
You’re asking this as if any information we have about NK is anything but US and SK propaganda lol
I had such high hopes for dbzer0, but it’s just another .ml.
Spoon fed ? They shovel feed it x)
God it’s funny when your brain not working right accidentally prevents certain issues. I’m immune to getting addicted to MMOs, my brain can’t handle the slow dopamine distribution.
To be fair , MMOs aren’t fun because of gameplay, they are fun because of the social aspects.
which ironically have diminished greatly in mmos
Working harder and grinding more should mean more levels and cool gear faster.
In reality, the harder you work the slower the dopamine, and then I dip.
I feel bad that I wore the free D.A.R.E. propaganda shirts in school because my family was too poor to get me decent clothing.
I know a lot of adults that wore them ironically, so maybe you were just ahead of your time.
Naw. Wear that shit with pride, then take a Snoop-level rip from a bong.
Most propaganda is aimed at neurotypical wiring. We are out of tune with it, that gives us a measure of protection.
It’s one of the worries I have with AI. While I think we are more protected from propaganda than most (since we constantly want to poke at the crack in a story), we are not immune. It’s perfectly possible to shape it to effect us. They just haven’t bothered, since we are a small target. AI makes that a lot easier to do, so we will see more of it.
my hyperfocus (i’m not adhd, i just love my adhd peeps) did because i paid too much attention and pointed out the gaps to my favorite history teacher in high school (after class, i’m not an asshole. well, not an asshole all the time). first month he gave me the book “lies my teacher told me” with the note “Good! Keep thinking critically about what you are learning! This book too!” or something like that, it’s in a box somewhere (i don’t have room to unpack my entire library here, i’ve got 2 bookshelves of books waiting to be unpacked).
I was fortunate my social studies teachers weren’t propagandizing, they straight up said the government lied to pursue some wars such as the one in Vietnam
it was the textbook we were required to use and the difference between that and what we were learning in class. I was noticing the gap.
So that’s why my fifth grade teacher hated me. Because I was too smart for her lazy bullshit lessons. 😂
Did anyone else ace the assignments without paying any attention to the lectures?
In 8th grade i would spend a lot of class on my phone by hiding it in my desk. I was still one of the only people to regularly participate in class and was a straight A student until uni.
There was one instance where another srudent ratted me out for using my phone. He had tried to rat me out multiple times before but i usually stuck it in a book or folder. This time he called me out for doing so, so the teacher ended up taking my phone. School policy was that she would have to turn it over to the principal and my parents would have to pick it up. The teacher was a 60+ year old former nun and I had strict parents so i was not looking forward to it. When we went out to lunch the teacher called me over and told me to wait for a second. She handed me my phone back and told me not to get caught again.
She never checked my desk for my phone again and I continued to be one of the only people who raised my hand.
Aw what a nice teacher! I was in school way before smart phones came out. I definitely would have used one during class. 😂
It was a small Catholic school in a big city and the student population was a majority middle-class white kids; that is to say that despite being the weird nerdy queer brown kid I was one of the best behaved, had some of the best grades, consistently output high quality work (even when bullshitting it), and participated in all my classes including religion despite being an outspoken atheist. Most of my teachers loved me and gave me a lot of leniency because even at my worst I was still leagues ahead typically. It also helped that my mom was very involved and made it known if i was causing trouble that they could call her and she’d sort it out quickly, so if i ever was actually out of line they knew it wouldn’t last long.
