I’m too ‘all over the place’ today to read the thread (SORRY!)
Just wanted to say that I’m in the middle of an MA. I have an extremely high IQ and ADHD. I left school with mediocre qualifications, dropped out half way through my A levels, started fallign asleep at my desk at work through boredom and did my A levels at night school. I got my degree but with terrible trouble. I worked 2 jobs during it, spent endless hours just trying to keep on top of the paperwork.
I used to wake up in the mornings without having had enough sleep and I’d be physically jerking and shaking because my body wasn’t coping with the lack of sleep – nor the amount of caffeine I was shoving in me to focus.
I lost my dissertation. Finally found it but it’s symptomatic of what the rest of my degree was like. I was only 1 mark off a first and it would have been a first but for some complications with group work that I couldn’t manage. 
I then jumped from job to job and finally I’m doing an MA.
How’s it going? I’m failing it because all the work I did at the beginning of the course for my portfolio has ‘disappeared’ and I’m having to cram the whole year into a few weeks.
I may scrape through. I truly hope so. I love what I’m doing. But my high IQ makes my tutors think I’m doing fine – I can talk the talk – I understand the subject inside out – but I need the written work and it’s just not happening.
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