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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today, I gathered the courage to participate in a class discussion. My professor laughed at me. FML
Today, my university professor asked us to submit anonymous course feedback. I wrote three paragraphs criticizing his lectures. Ten minutes later, I realized I'd left my full name at the bottom of the page. FML
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
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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Top comments
Palirose 22
Write what you want anyways. Don't let some teacher stifle what you have to express!
davincidasecond 24
You can always start your own blog and write your own stuff.
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Comments (94)
nazare 7
I'm pretty sure that the teacher's intention of asking to be informed isn't to prevent you from writing what you want to express. Instead, the teacher might just want to be prepared for whatever you decide to write about.
Rianokami 22
Keep on writing, but do blog it or talk to your therapist as well.
lowshadows 21
as long as it doesn't say " Sometimes I just wanna go Virginia Tech on this school" you should be fine.
honeymoonroyale 20
Are you serious?! That would make any student feel afraid of truly expressing themself. So much for a decent outlet.
jw90 18
You could always keep a personal journal to express your thoughts instead.
Smoxxii 17
Ew. You weird mother ******... I like you. You're cool. You're creative. We're friends now. ^_^
Rosebudx 32
Your professor is a terrible writing prof. Keep your chin up, OP, and maybe consider a blog or something where you can write what you need to express.
worldclassrager 41
Bring in a therapist note for sure let you write what you want...
Kitiara521 24
He didn't say you *couldn't* write dark things, just to talk to him about it beforehand. I've seen a couple classmates get called to councilor's offices or something just because they wrote something that disturbed the teacher *that* deeply, Go give the teacher a head's up so that s/he knows why you're in the class.
inkhat 3
That's because a creative writing class is a CLASS, not therapy. She has to make sure the other students have a comfortable environment to learn too.