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Yup.
Absolute hell in school. I remember sitting in front of an Algebra book, reading and re-reading the same text over and over again – for FOUR HOURS.
Never got off the first page. Couldn’t remember anything.
(Sidebar: A nephew with ADD actually TIED himself to a chair for 4 hours so he could study. Same results as me!)
BUT…
If the subject captures my curiousity (Astronomy, aviation, creation of the Niagara Gorge, dangers of Sludge Spreading {???}), I become a walking encyclopedia.
Also know all the words to just about every song from the sixties.
Taught myself the greek alphabet by turning it into a song!
What WEIRD & wonderful minds we Swans have <g>
PS: I believe I still hold my school’s record for the FINAL mark in my Grade 13 Geometry Exam … FOUR (that’s out of a hundred!)
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