Godan had been explaining to me how if someone bullied him he could ignore it if he'd had a good day, if it was just one thing, but if it had been going on all day he couldn't not lose his temper.
So I said that sounded perfectly normal; that he sounded perfectly normal.
He looked doubtful about that - in fact his eyebrows really went up a long way. Like I'd said he was really an alien or something.
"Ok," I said, "have you ever seen a teacher really lose their temper? Like really lose it?!"
He confirmed he'd seen such a thing.
"And what happened before? How did it get to that point?"
He explained that it happened when everyone kept on talking, or being noisy or whatever for a long time and it built up.
"There you go," I said. "That's what you just said. That's what happens to all of us. We get worn down by stuff and then we're not so able to cope."
He thought about it and then said,
"My temper used to be much worse, it was like really short. When I was younger, my cousin used to only have to say one thing and I'd snap. They thought I had ADHD and took me to see a doctor. But I didn't have ADHD." He paused, then added, "It turned out that it was my cousin who had it."
He didn't really understand why his words made me laugh so much, but he seemed to enjoy it.
