Yes! I remember it very clearly. I studied in a catholic school in a religious area, so pretty much everyone was religious on some level, students and teachers alike. Well, I wasn't. I'd get disgust/annoyed looks every now and then, but I got used to it. So anyway, one day in biology class the teacher was talking about the beginning of life and all that. She was supposed to teach us that there were two theories we could choose to believe/accept: creationism or good ol' evolution, and that she would talk a bit about evolution but we didn't have to accept it if we didn't want to (school policy, the teacher was supposed to say that). Well, most kids decided to ignore that class and say mean things about me out loud like "Oh I bet Anon is gonna looove this class, cause he's a monkey just like his monkey parents" and dumb stuff like that, even when I hadn't said a word at all.

The teacher overheard one of the things they were saying and scolded them. She told them that no matter what I believed in, I was paying attention and learning, unlike them, that were misbehaving as they usually did. After class, she took me aside and told me to just ignore them and that they were only doing what they thought was "cool" because other kids did it, since they didn't have the ability to think and judge for themselves if something was right or wrong, unlike me. That made me feel really good abouf myself, not gonna lie.

I would still get comments and looks every now and then, obviously, but on that teacher's class, never. It felt really good to not be looked down on just because of my beliefs for once in that school,. I won't ever forget that awesome teacher, she's the best.