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8:29pm July 27, 2014
Anonymous asked: Re: overmedication post - do you know that the person hadn't actually drawn you (meaning that the teacher was unknowingly talking about you)?

Oh of course I knew that.  I didn’t ever tell the teacher that this was me, I told her “This sort of thing also happened to me,” and then she told me “No it didn’t, she was different because ________” and every time she said “because ________” it would be something I had experienced at the time as well, so then I said “Actually ______ happened to me,” and then she’d say “No it didn’t,” and then it just kept going like that.  Even though she was not around for the events I was describing, she seemed to think she knew all about them.  

I wasn’t confusing myself with the other person, I was just telling her that I’d also experienced the same thing she was describing.  And I was pretty clear about that.  Of course he hadn’t drawn me, the picture looked nothing like me, and exactly like the girl he’d actually drawn, he was a talented artist and the girl and I looked nothing alike.

Is there a reason you think I’d be confused about that?  The guy who drew it didn’t know me at the time he drew it, the picture didn’t look like me, and I never said “That was me” or anything like it.  I just tried to say “Oh wow something almost exactly the same as that happened to me too a couple years ago” and the teacher had a reaction like a suddenly-furious cat swatting at me.  It really was that strange, and I still don’t understand the precision with which people detected and swatted at actual communication about actual experiences I had, while almost never swatting at “communication” that was essentially non-communicative or entirely made up.  It was like they had this precision detection of actual communication and they hated it.  I know that’s not what it actually was, but I can’t for the life of me explain it.