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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/midnightmare58 on 2024-11-05 18:13:56+00:00.

So, I(F16) have to take a tech class as a graduation requirement in my school. It’s important to note that I am utterly USELESS with anything that has to do with technology; like I’m that one person who slams my phone against a table till it starts working again. I didn’t know what airdropping was until a week ago. So obviously, I was not excited to have to take a tech based class. I decided to take computer science, due to knowing the teacher, and knowing he’s AWESOME. The thing is, I transferred over from a magnet school, and missed the first quarter of comp sci, so said teacher had to sit me down and teach the basics of coding. He pulls up code.org and we start with the basics, but oddly enough I’m flying through all them, no explanation or anything needed. Neither of us can figure out why I already know how to do all this, when it’s well known I’m clueless with technology. It was only halfway through that it dawned on me why. I’m sure if you’re on Reddit, you’ll be somewhat familiar with the Fanfiction website Archive of our Own, or AO3. Now I post fanfics on AO3, and whne I started I didn’t really know how to use the website, so I fooled around with it a lot to just kinda learn how the website worked. For those of you who haven’t ever posted a work on Ao3, it’s not very simple, and you have to fool around with it. After you enter in your writing in the box, and post it, it doesn’t always transfer over the way you write it, in terms of spacing, italics, and bolded or underlined words. When you go in to edit, there’s a bunch of weird stuff in there that’s been changed, which I had realized in the middle of class, was code. And by taking the initiative to learn the workings of the website by picking it apart in hyperfixation, had taught myself the basics of coding. I realized this, changed races with how mortified I was at this discovery(I blushed so hard I was just completely PINK), and then my teacher, who I was very close with, insisted I tell him how I knew how to code now that I realized. And that’s how I fucked up, enough that I actually had to explain what Ao3 was, and why I was writing on it so often that I was actually ahead of the class in coding skills. Which included discussing WHAT I wrote about to my teacher and the several people sitting around his desk, which lead to discussions about a bunch of odd stuff, even the omega verse!! And ya… ya. I don’t even like the omega verse guys. I’ve never written an omega verse fanfic, nor do I read them. No shame, it’s an amazing concept, but having EXPLAIN that concept to a bunch of sane people is… yikes. I’m mortified, and so was our teacher. So ya.

TL;DR- I knew the basics of coding because of how often I used the fanfiction website AO3 and therefore had a mortifying conversation with my teacher and classmates on how I knew said basics and what AO3 was. I don’t think I can look said teacher in the eyes.