So, in high school, I was part of this thing called the "Business Academy" where we basically learned about finances and stuff. I went back for a presentation thing tonight and had to face the one teacher I hated (and I have never hated a teacher or professor before. Not outside of their class anyway).

I told her that my career path changed this year. I was going in for education. I wanted to be an elementary teacher. During my student teaching, I realized that being the main classroom teacher was not for me. So I told her this when she asked what I was doing and that I applied to be a teacher aide at a daycare/preschool place.

She then decided to say "well, you've always been a bit shy." As if that has anything to do with my abilities to teach.

And, for the record, I am not "shy." I am introverted and on the quiet side. I will not participate in conversations that I'm not interested in. And, even if I am, I won't say anything unless someone actively brings me in. This is what she saw.

However, it doesn't get in the way professionally. I talked with my mentor teachers during student teaching. I could stand in front of my classes and teach them what I needed to. I could interact with them outside of the lesson and get to know them. My change in plans has nothing to do with me being shy, it was that I did not think I could teach effectively enough to justify being the main classroom teacher with countless futures relying on me.

Has anyone ever described you inaccurately? Does it make you as annoyed/mad as it makes me?

Them: oh what a sweet child, never utters a curse and doesn't like others doing it around her
Me: wait what the fuck was that bullshit you​ just spout?

But introverts aren't always shy, or quiet. Extroverts don't get that :| social introverts exist

But while the whole "sweet and innocent" thing was amusing the first few times, it's gotten rather irksome now
No
I am an adult
If you're being a piece of shit, I will tell you, especially if I'm not on the clock
I'm no coddled princess that knows nothing of the real world

Instead of being called shy because I'm not social, I usually get called cold, elitist, or intimidating.

I don't know how I manage to be intimidating, since internally I'm terrified of being out of the house 3/4 of the time and just want to go back to bed.

mementomori wrote: I don't know how I manage to be intimidating, since internally I'm terrified of being out of the house 3/4 of the time and just want to go back to bed.

I feel this.

People have misjudged me on more than one occasion lol. Usually I just laugh and wave it off but if I find it important to let people know they're wrong about me, I correct them. That's about it, really.

Usually when people believe I'm the sweetest thing around, I just smile and nod like a good little girl, but tbh I'm cackling on the inside XD

I've never felt the need to correct people unless I want to spend a lot of time with them XD Her, never.

Let's just hope the woman interviewing me for a job tomorrow doesn't think I'm "too shy" to work in a daycare XD

I'm fairly shy, so people have assumed I was mean or stuck up. I don't really see the logic there!