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View submission: Boys Want a Strong Relationship With Their Teachers. That Doesn't Always Happen
I was abused by a couple of female teachers in school. Not sexually or physically, but they would yell and be rude at me more than to other kids. It was probably because I was the most socially awkward person on the planet; I have "terminal AuDHD" as I call it, plus Tourette's and incredible anxiety.
One incident in particular I really remember was this: in junior high/middle school I was absent a lot due to numerous doctors appts and massive anxiety and frequent panic attacks. One day I was chatting with another kid during class, and I asked the other kid why another student was absent. Just genuine curiosity, nothing bad. The teacher then snapped at me and said, very loudly, in front of the whole class, "[Name], you of all people shouldn't be asking why other people are absent!"
She did later apologize but I still sorta have PTSD from that...
Comment by Natural_Ball5453 at 16/02/2025 at 16:33 UTC*
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In 6th grade I had a female teacher call me out for scratching a poison ivy infection on my genitals (we have to hold it when urinating). She looked straight at me and said "some people are animals!"
I should note how bad of a person she was. This was the 1960s and integration was being implemented. We got the first two black students to attend our school that year, a brother and sister.
The girl was in my class and on her first day this teacher chose to read a passage from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. While staring at this frightened black girl, much as she stared at me when calling me an animal, she read about Jim the n........ and how n.....s smell.