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People are really hard on my statistics professor for reasons I don't understand. One day when he was making several arithmetic mistakes when writing on the board, someone shouted out, "What's wrong with you today?' Someone else shouted out "What are you on?" Then someone else shouted "It must be something good?" At which point my professor said "Ok here's what you do, first you go to bed about two hours before you really ought to, then you put on a tape of a crying baby that goes off every hour, then you wake up about an hour before you really ought to." I might not have been that patient I would have been fighting the urge to say something like "You got 40% on your last assignment so clearly it's not as good as what you're on."

Every time we have a test, people always complain about how hard the tests are, even though they are open notes. They go so far as to say, "After taking that test I'm so mad at him, I can't concentrate, for the rest of the day." I notice I'm the only one who actually types up notes for tests. Everyone else is fumbling through page after page of written notes. I think there's just something about this professor that makes people hate him and want to treat him like toilet paper. When I had him for a psychology class, the first day, as he walked into the room, people were saying, loud enough for him to hear, "Oh my god, this teacher is such a nerd. I bet he's still a virgin." I've had a couple of other professors who were treated in a similar matter. I have no idea what it is about these teachers that does this. They all are fairly average looking. With statistics, they may be taking out on him, the fact that nobody wants take this class but it's mandatory for psychology majors. With the other professors who were treated like this, the classes were all either electives or related to majors, so
there's no real pattern to it.

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Last week my statistics professor asked if anyone likes Guinness. Almost nobody raised their hands. He then said, “Well it’s a meal. You have to chew it.” I was tempted to ask how that’s possible, but I decided there was too big a risk that that would be an example of “Taking things too literally”. I have no idea how to take that figuratively though. I always worry about “outing” myself in class with this NLD thing. The other day I caught myself rocking back and fourth in class. It’s pretty rare for me to catch myself doing that. Usually I have no idea I’m doing it until somebody else tells me. At that point there’s pretty much nothing I can say to justify this. I’ve considered saying things like “What, you’ve never seen anyone do an impression of a parakeet before? Everyone’s doing it”. I may have given myself away in my extremely small women’s studies class when I commented on the essentialist stuff (the stuff that says what make women special or makes women women is the ability to read nonverbal communication and sense what others are feeling), by saying, “Well I think any women on the autistic spectrum would read that and think, ‘ain’t I a woman,” Quoting Sojourner Truth is a dangerous move for a white person to make but I think my teacher got a kick out of it. I’m not sure what would happen to me if large numbers of people started to find out but I don’tthink iit wouldd be good. In case anyone is wondering, that title is a joke. It would be a contradiction of meanings. Only a certain type of person would wonder about that though.