
:yes:: I have a tendancy to use elaborate words.) I do it so that when they ask me - what does that word mean I can tell them to look it up. It works sometimes. Anyways, I mentioned that I started reading "big books" not See Jane Run books in kindergarten. So I mentioned I had to tone it down (my vocabulary) in 5th grade because I was accused of plaguerism by my teacher in 5th grade. For some reason, my teacher did not believe that I wrote a certain paragraph in an assignment. She wanted to know where I stole it from. She held me after school to question me. I cried because she did not believe me. Sor some reason, the girls found this hilarious. TO which I mentioned that it wasn't funny since that "scarred" me for life. I had to curtail my writing and speaking habits so as not to be accused of plaguerism ever again.
How sad is that - a 5th grader scared that the police were coming to pick you up for lying and stealing something you wrote. Here I am went through 5th -6th grade afraid at any moment I was going to be lead away in handcuffs.

Scared I tell you -