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Are you a “pleasure to have in class” neurodivergent or are you a “needs more self discipline because of wasted potential” neurodivergent?

I was reminiscing about the 8th grade today(I was like 12 for the non-Americans), and I remembered about this girl who thought purple octopuses were real. So basically I was in a group with four other people. We were in our history class doing a project about the Boston tea party, and we had to make a poster. Now octopus girl volunteered to make the poster. About ten minutes or so into the project octopus girl looks up from the poster and asks if octopus are purple. I thought it was a bit of a weird question but I didn't think much of it and replyed with something along lines of "they change color so technically they can be purple, but normally they tend to be shades of orange or red". Unfortunately, for me and my two other group members, octopus girl, for whatever reason, took offense to this. She spent almost an entire hour or so of the class period showing us all images of either purple octopus plushies or obviously photoshopped octopuses just to prove her point that purple octopuses were real. She only stopped when her friend, who was one of group members, said we had 6 minutes left of class. Octopus girls face looked mortified, because apparently the entire reason she had asked the question, was because she wanted to draw an octopus. She hastily drew an octopus. It looked like a weird purple blob with 8 misshapen limbs. Our teacher thought it was a jellyfish...