While Maria did explain that she had other, more positive experiences
while collaborating, Taylor never found classroom collaborative assignments to be
an enjoyable or beneficial experience, even though they tried to keep an open
mind. Taylor related, "When people are getting their hands up on everyone else's
stuff, that just stresses me out immensely, because it's more variables." When asked
whether their anxiety impacted their ability to collaborate, Taylor described how
collaboration could leave them completely wrecked:
I almost feel like, it's more that it wrecks my entire life. And, so the weird thing
is, I think that my anxiety makes me more thoughtful than the average person.
I think that I actually put in more effort and perhaps do a better job and make
more right decisions about how to relate to other people. It's just that it also
wrecks my life, to have to do all of that. And then, if my life gets so completely
wrecked, that I can't keep that up anymore, then that's when things start to go.
So, if I'm ever missing deadlines on a project, for example, that's because I've just
completely fallen apart at that point, and the group work has been a contributing
factor to be sure.
Taylor's description of how disruptive and devasting collaborative projects could be
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