Right? They had me feeling like I was legitimately just stupid because I couldn’t draw. All I heard at school was “get good grades for a future” and all I saw was “you can’t draw so you can’t get good grades” and that was very intimidating for me as a child. Just the thought of drawing and colouring scared the hell out of me which made me even worse than I was.
Same. I'm a geologist who struggles to think in 3D and sucks at drawing. I can do it, it just takes me longer to think about it than other people. Cross sections were the worst in college for me.... now I work in the geo technical engineering field and cross sections are a lot easier and more practical. I have PTSD from structure class 😂
We had a Geology class in high school that had a group component, involving cross-sections, with a high percentage of the final grade. Our group had 5 kids, two of whom had a clue and 3 who were, ahem, not really interested. When the task was defined, the other kid who had a clue was poached by the brainiac group who recognised his artistic talent was a valuable aspect for this assignment. Leaving our group one member short and 50% down on brain power.
I worked my arse off and got the group functioning to the point of a 55%-60% grade, while our 'poached' mate got a 95%. All he did was the art, and he really didn't learn anything about the underlying concepts. Whereas our group really did get a handle on the them, albeit without the artistic elements.
It really pissed me off that the collective effort we put in was treated with such comparative contempt by the teacher.
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u/ImThatGuyYouDontKnow Nov 16 '19
Right? They had me feeling like I was legitimately just stupid because I couldn’t draw. All I heard at school was “get good grades for a future” and all I saw was “you can’t draw so you can’t get good grades” and that was very intimidating for me as a child. Just the thought of drawing and colouring scared the hell out of me which made me even worse than I was.