Miscellaneous: Today, my new creative writing teacher informed the class that...

By depressed - 03/09/2013 21:43 - United States - Yorktown Heights

Today, my new creative writing teacher informed the class that we should consult him before writing anything "dark or disturbing." I only took the class because my therapist recommended that I join the class so I could freely express my darker thoughts without her help or a fear of being judged. FML

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By Anonymous - 08/03/2013 11:29 - United States - Charlottesville

Today, my teacher read my story about a haunted house for a class assignment. She liked it very much and turned it in to the office to be sent into a state writing competition. An hour later, I was called to the office where the guidance counselor called my work "disturbing" and said I "need help". FML

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By ihateloopholes - 21/06/2015 20:42 - Lebanon - Beirut

Today, I forbade a student in the writing seminar I instructed from continuing to present his disturbing poems about demons. He responded to this by convincing nearly every other student in the seminar to write and read out loud several of his poems. FML

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SIKE!

By Scared - 06/07/2021 08:01

Today, in my psychology class, the professor had us write down our name and birthday on one side of the paper and on the other side put down a mental disorder we would like to know more about. I was going to write 'Social anxiety disorder' but I was too worried about what people would think. FML

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Leave no paper trace

By can’t do it - 25/04/2023 10:00

Today, my therapist asked me if I’d been journaling as he suggested. I had to tell him that I don’t trust writing down my innermost thoughts anymore, because when I was younger my mom read by diary multiple times and beat me for what I wrote. So did my ex-boyfriend. FML

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Descriptive

By Teaching26 - 15/05/2010 07:47 - United States

Today, I lectured my second-grade class to be more descriptive in their writing. I gave them an assignment to describe something in the classroom. I was grading their work later, and one student wrote, "My class is taught by a fat teacher with gray hair." FML

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By rhartnett11 - 16/02/2011 12:56

Today, I woke up to a bloody nose. Instead of rushing to the bathroom, I creatively dripped the blood over a knife for photography class because the assignment was to show emotion. So many of the students and faculty were disturbed that I'm now forced to talk to the school psychologist. FML

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By Noname - 28/01/2009 11:03 - United States

Today, I gathered the courage to participate in a class discussion. My professor laughed at me. FML

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By Anonymous - 03/10/2012 08:24 - United States

Today, after complaining that I had nothing to write about in my weekly journal for college, my professor suggested in front of everyone that I should get a girlfriend. FML

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By Lizz - 06/02/2009 19:25 - United States

Today, I got up the courage to go to my very first voice lesson. I thought I did alright, but at the end my teacher told me, "Now don't worry about grades in this class, I grade on effort, not on talent." FML

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Very informative!

By student414 - This FML is from back in 2012 but it's good stuff - Canada

Today, I went to my first class of the semester. After an hour of intense note writing, I realized I was in the wrong class. FML

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Palirose 22

Wednesday 4 September 2013 8:27

Write what you want anyways. Don't let some teacher stifle what you have to express!

davincidasecond 24

Wednesday 4 September 2013 8:29

You can always start your own blog and write your own stuff.

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OnlyoneCam 3

Friday 6 September 2013 5:10

Don't be depressed, if all else fails get a journal! #befree

FinJage 18

Sunday 8 September 2013 9:00

You don't need a class for that.

Emillllllllllie 7

Monday 9 September 2013 4:43

Write it down anyways and ask for extra credit.

gxrockstar 9

Wednesday 18 September 2013 0:29

Freedom of speech...well writing.

Alyxi 20

Friday 20 September 2013 14:20

Have you considered a blog or even jut writing emails that you end to yourself, or a trusted friend that like your writing?

Alyxi 20

Friday 20 September 2013 14:26

you also have what a friend once did with me, someone willing to have you send e-mails with a subject like 'do not open' that you Know won't or such. For rants or things you don't want read but need to let out. Also, please forgive the typos if I missed any, my keyboard is dying on my laptop and the replacement caused me to have to format when it crashed Everything so back to the broken one I have gone.

derpy_batman 4

Friday 31 January 2014 4:42

Screw her, write what you want OP!

barnesburner 4

Thursday 4 December 2014 1:27

Talk to him about it and explain your situation. He's a teacher, his job is to help your learning experience and work with your personal needs.

Caro97songs 14

Saturday 4 July 2015 17:01

That's really a shame. If you ever want someone to read your writings, I would love to read them. Sometimes the darkest art, whether it be in writing or in another form, is the most meaningful and has the potential to be remembered for thousands of years.