watch out, this one's a doozy
hi, i need this really bad, so here's a rant about privilege. for FULL context (feel free to skip to the tldr), i'm a white queer kid, but in general i live in a pretty safe neighborhood for white queer kids. i have a physical disability, and i have a cane which i use sometimes for mobility aid, but most of the time i'm not outwardly "disabled" looking, since i don't use my cane a ton. my parents are super accepting. we're middle-class, i suppose, but pay is somewhat irregular since mom doesn't work (she's disabled but hasn't filed for disability) and dad freelances.
we're not going hungry, but money's tight a lot. i have 2 siblings (me and my younger sibling are in high school, my older sister is graduated and still lives with us) and 4 cats. so, expenses get a bit high. we have one car, a shitty old kia van from Ancient Times (okay its not THAT bad, but it's... it breaks a lot.)
tldr; my life isn't terrible.
I have a partner (whom i love with every bone in my body, don't get me wrong) and he is wayyyyy better off than we've ever been. He's an only child and has been really sheltered. we're both 17, and his mom is emailing our german teacher because he got 19/20 on a participation grade. Okay sure. But see,
he got that grade because he wasn't participating.
He's the kind of "doesn't speak unless spoken to" person in social settings. He got paired with this other boy who also happens to be like that. And so, the assignment, where part of the requirement was to speak, was completed, but they didn't speak to each other. So he got 1 point off. 1 point.
And now he's having is mom, i don't even know, email? Call? our german teacher to get that point back because "it's not [his] fault [he] got paired with that kid!!111!!!11"
you fucking made the choice to not speak.
I understand anxiety, trust me i do, but the assignment was to discuss with your partner, and they didn't speak, so they lost a point. honestly, they probably should've lost more than one, since the assignment was MOSTLY SPEAKING.
We're not even in college yet. I'm like, genuinely worried that he'll get to college and his mom will still be doing this shit. She's enabling this weird, entitled behavior. Yes, he's an only child, and so is his mom.
I'm not wrong for being pissed off about this right? He didn't do what the assignment asked, so he lost points. That feels fair right?
