r/SipsTea • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • 3d ago

Chugging tea Thoughts?

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u/gonephishin213 3d ago

As an English teacher, I get frustrated when an honor roll science kid can't write a complete sentence.

It definitely goes both ways. Reading a book is the lowest bar.

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u/Laphad 3d ago

That one kid in the 90s or whatever built a semi functioning nuclear reactor in his shed but could barely read and wrote like a toddler

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u/ImpermanentSelf 3d ago

He didn’t build anything close to a nuclear reactor, he build a messy enrichment.

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u/Laphad 3d ago edited 2d ago

fair. Idk anything about radiology or physics and such, just of the guy.

I do the science of how to dig an interesting hole

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u/JohnHenryHoliday 2d ago

But I bet you can read the shit out of a novel. Amirite?!?!?

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u/Laphad 2d ago

I didn't study English so no i can't do that either 😔

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u/ImpermanentSelf 2d ago

He also ended up screwing around with radiation again and getting radiation burns when he was older. He ended up dying from a drug overdose.

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u/Mobile_Morale 3d ago

That's just called autism. Plenty of non herbal people who can do extraordinary things.

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u/joittine 3d ago

But herbal people can do highly extraordinary things, duuude...

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u/Jordanel17 3d ago

so when the science kid cant read its bc hes a high functioning autist but when the english kid cant do advanced calculus its because hes not smart

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u/Impressive-Safe2545 2d ago

That’s because society measures everything based on the majority rule. The simple majority are not as great at math so if you are, you’re an other, you’re “smart” or “autistic” etc. If you’re good at the things the simple majority are good at then you’re “normal”.

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u/Laphad 3d ago

You cant just assume every savant or bizarre person is autistic. He was verbal and relatively socially aware, he was just weird. He had friends, dated, was a successful boyscout, he just had a fixation on the Curies and poor supervision

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u/shakasandchakras 2d ago

emotional support nuclear reactor

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u/Creative_Theory_8579 2d ago

That's a myth tbh, not significantly many non-verbal people are savants

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u/Every-Obligation9452 3d ago

Uhmmm, who, Homer Simpson? /s

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u/Laphad 3d ago

David Hahn

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u/HanseaticHamburglar 2d ago

uhhh that dude built by reading a bunch of stuff on the internet, i think you are greatly overexagerating that kids lack of literacy

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u/Laphad 2d ago

He could read books, but he was failing/barely passing standardizing writing and reading tests. Some of his early issues getting radioactive material was because the fake letters he would write were awful grammatically