When I was in 3rd grade or so, we had a project where we were supposed to pick 5 adjectives to describe ourselves and a line or two to explain it. At the time I was super into protect the animals/planet. So unfortunately, aiming for 'conservationist', I hit 'conservative' and the reasoning blurb was something like 'it is important to make sure the planet stays habitable'. I still cringe thinking about how anyone who saw it (they were hung up in the hallway) must have thought I was some Hitler youth freak or something.
To my knowledge, this was the last time I was mistaken for being 'conservative', and I intend to keep it that way.
Reminds me of a radlib classmate in highschool who once described themself as 'reactionary' (as in 'I react to bad things and want to change them') and the teacher had to explain that reactionary means conservative.
lol I did something very similar in school when I wanted to say how much I loved astronomy, but wrote astrology instead, not understanding the difference. My teacher thought I was really into tarot cards when I wanted to be an astronaut
When I was in 3rd grade or so, we had a project where we were supposed to pick 5 adjectives to describe ourselves and a line or two to explain it. At the time I was super into protect the animals/planet. So unfortunately, aiming for 'conservationist', I hit 'conservative' and the reasoning blurb was something like 'it is important to make sure the planet stays habitable'. I still cringe thinking about how anyone who saw it (they were hung up in the hallway) must have thought I was some Hitler youth freak or something.
To my knowledge, this was the last time I was mistaken for being 'conservative', and I intend to keep it that way.
Reminds me of a radlib classmate in highschool who once described themself as 'reactionary' (as in 'I react to bad things and want to change them') and the teacher had to explain that reactionary means conservative.
lol I did something very similar in school when I wanted to say how much I loved astronomy, but wrote astrology instead, not understanding the difference. My teacher thought I was really into tarot cards when I wanted to be an astronaut