In fourth grade, i got in trouble for knowing what negative numbers were.



the math problem was something like 3-5=? and i had seen an odd squad episode on negative numbers the day before, so i put down -2 as my answer.

then one of the kids in my class who was looking at my paper(i'm pretty sure she was cheating because i always passed my math tests) and called the teacher over, and tattled on me putting down a negative number. when i explained my logic my teacher got mad at me, saying that i should have put down 0 and not -2, and she said, in her own words, "even though its correct, i'm marking it as wrong, because i haven't taught you guys negative numbers yet, have i? no i haven't, because you guys are supposed to learn them NEXT YEAR. so hopefully you learn your lesson on only using the methods that i've taught you to use, not the ones you learn on tv. actually, you should go clip down!"

so basically, i got in trouble for watching pbs kids and knowing what negative numbers were a year before i was supposed to learn them

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People who brag about their intimate exploits

Mine is probably no longer you from the underworlds saga.

I'll start: Babel :)

I'm a genetic anomaly that's actually been studied by doctors. I was born with a deformation on both hands that causes the final knuckle of my pinky finger to bend inward at an exactly 30 degree angle. There's no history of such a strange deformation in my family... though there is an instance of one finger being bent that way. Specifically, on my father's right hand, about two years before I was born, he had his pinky finger severed at the last knuckle. When the doctors reattached it, the doctor did so at an angle. The exact same angle that my fingers have. That's not the only odd genetic twist I have, but it's one of the more visible. There's papers that have been written about it, and studies performed when I was younger, to determine how this deformation happened, and what it might mean for other people who have suffered odd physical deformations where no family history of such exist.

I'm one of the few lesbians from India :) (Immigrated from there, don't live there now)