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Talk to your guidance office. They should be quite familiar with the special needs of students with ADD, so they should already have plans in place which will help you.
The simple fact is, our brains work differently from “normal” brains, so we learn differently. Therefore, it is unreasonable to expect someone with ADD to learn things the same way, and at the same speed, as someone who doesn’t have it.
I know from my own experience that basic math, which I could relate to the real world, was easy for me to understand and learn. As math got more conceptual, with things like algebra and theorems, that’s when I really struggled to understand it. To this day, I still can’t figure out factoring—but, as I’ve never had to do it in real life, it doesn’t matter.
I remember, two years ago, I finally used the Pythagorean Theorem for the first time since graduating high school in 1987. And, since it had been so long since I’d learned it, I had to look it up on the internet first. When I think of how I’d struggled to learn the damn thing, it really does seem like a bit of a waste.
Looking back, I can honestly say that the most useful course I took in high school was Typing!
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