I TA an undergraduate General Psych I lecture because it's a requirement for grad students in the psych department to be involved with the academic pillar outside our own in one way or another. One of responsibilities of the TA position is moderate the "optional" online Blackboard discussions for people who don't like speaking in a 60+ person lecture hall. It's really nothing. I just post guiding explanations if the topic got really off from the intended discussion/goal or raise new questions if people answered the discussion question with the same answers to the point of overkill. Most of which occurs 4 hours before midnight.
Another responsibility is to sit in extra help sessions as a free tutor. Most of the time, I'm in Codex or doing work for my actual classes. One of the students in that discussion board went to today's session for the first time and told me I'm completely different from what they pictured me to the point of mild culture shock. I respond so professionally on the discussion board because I triple check all my replies on Microsoft word for grammar and spelling mistakes and with more formal language than this actual post. They were a bit thrown off that I talk with lots of slang and cussing and seem so lax.
tl:dr
Do you speak the same way you type?
How similar or different are the two?
Do you feel like a different person whenever you type?
I suffer from RBF too! Soooo annoying when people think I'm angry all the time.
