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This is something a teacher posted on their tumblr:

"There is a strange mythology surrounding marks in educational institutions.
Listen.
A low mark is not a punishment. A high mark is not a reward.
A mark is a description of the relationship between a predetermined set of criteria and a piece of work.
That’s it. That’s all a mark is.
The criteria measure the capacity of the work - not you, the work - to demonstrate a set of skills you are learning. Not skills you have learnt - skills you are learning. 
A mark is not an indicator of your intelligence. 
A mark is not an indicator of your ultimate success or failure as a student.
A mark is not an indicator of your worth as a person.
Do not mistake a mark for what it is not. Do not attribute to a mark more than it deserves. It’s just a mark.
You are not your mark."

 

I absolutely despise when people claim to have OCD. It isn't a light matter. I actually take it rather personally. I have panic attacks if my bed isn't made up correctly, the chairs aren't put back in the right order after I sweep, all doors on my hallway aren't closed, I worry too much, if there's too much clutter in my room, and I had one because my best friend used my eye shadow brush and used the wrong color on the wrong side and put it in upside down. It's horrible. Until you have to experience what I and other people do, you don't understand what OCD is, so don't take it so lightly. Don't claim to have it if you don't. It's why people always think I make it up and why my famy thinks I'm fcking crazy and melodramatic, when the last thing this crap is, is in my control.