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I’m 53 – most of my teachers are dead or too old to bother…….
Newbie here…….. I’m SO FURIOUS! All through grade school Mom and Dad were called to conferences, heck, a couple teachers even visited our home. The school psychologist was called in. I was “tested” – LOL, discovered I was a genius and was simply “bored” with school, that’s all (yeah, my score was so high the psychologist asked my mother “doesn’t it scare you” and she was confused – what do you mean? He said “having a genius in the family, someone so smart”?
Yet I had trouble in school. One teacher in the 4th grade though, she was totall understanding and worked with me, even though in our area it would have been “ADHD, what’s that?”
In college I was SO interested, and so challenged, I got straight A’s, even though I rarely ever did homework.
I’m trying to figure it all out – but I’m finding peers and even some friends are saying “oh, yeah, that’s normal, I have those problems too” – they just don’t get it.
Naw, my teachers are not going to remember, if they are even alive, after 40 or so years……… I need to deal with the here and now – at least that’s how I feel now. What a wasted life, how far could I have gone had they only known.
My mother is now diagnosed ADHD, my youngest son was diagnosed years ago and put on meds. He was pretty good while on them. Me, never gave it a thought- we just thought I had “mental problems” and depression like my mother.
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