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giftedpoison · 4 months

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i started school again recently after taking a really long break to figure my shit out.

and my first assignment literally has me emailing the teacher because it feels like she's asking us to divulge trauma on a discussion board post for our peers to consume.

and that feels weird. and i'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt by emailing her to get more explanation about the assignment. but am excruciatingly terrified i'm gonna make an enemy out of her by mistake during my first week.

(also for context I'm taking an Intro to Literature course. No idea how that connects)

#the discussion post is called understanding humanity #and she gives us an npr snippet about codeswitching and asks us to discuss a time when we felt excluded or left out and why #like codeswitching itself is a trauma response #so i can't imagine why she'd think discussing why we felt excluded by our peers in the past wouldn't be us divulging trauma #its like thinking masking by autistic people isn't a detrimental trauma response like #and like I could talk about how I was bullied for being autistic and I had to learn how to mask when i was in elementary school but #no one fucking needs to know that about me like????#and i guess its a way to empathize with the black experience of code switching but like??

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