u/Apprehensive-Drop-36

I (21F) vividly remember being in year 10 gen sci, and putting my hand up to answer a question about optics. I had a reputation for being smart and participating in class I guess, which everyone made me feel like it made me a drag. I had a good vocabulary. Anyway, I responded to this question, using a word I don’t even remember as being complicated and my teacher made a mean quip about how I was trying to sound smart on purpose. Next question I answered, I described refraction as a “rainbow” lol, because I was so confused. I felt humiliated and lost, and realized for the first time that maybe my word choices were not the same as everyone else. I’d never thought about it before then. Now that I’m getting diagnosed late in life it feels like a bittersweet moment, realizing that there really was a difference. Has this happened to anyone else?