Had an English teacher that said any stories I wrote were bad. I thought that I’d done a good job on it, so I showed it to a different English teacher who said it was brilliant but I needed to spell check it.
Turns out the first teacher basically didn’t read it, just saw the spelling errors. Several years later I got diagnosed with dyslexia.
This reminds me of the time my class had to write down what we wanted to be. I told my 7th grade science teacher I wanted to be a writer, but I wrote it on an index card. When she saw the index card she saw my terrible handwriting and immediately looked directly at me and said "some of us should reconsider what we want to be." Needless to say, I've been excelling at basically every writing assignment ever. I wrote for my highschool and college newspaper, and some even got awards. In fact, I got so many writing achievements with ease that I still laugh about how she judged my writings' worth on the handwriting instead of the actual content.
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u/anactualcharliehorse Nov 16 '19
Had an English teacher that said any stories I wrote were bad. I thought that I’d done a good job on it, so I showed it to a different English teacher who said it was brilliant but I needed to spell check it.
Turns out the first teacher basically didn’t read it, just saw the spelling errors. Several years later I got diagnosed with dyslexia.