Because I was held back by the other students pace of learning. I would flip ahead in my school books to find something interesting to read because I had already learned what the class was now learning because I would get bored and seek out new stuff to learn.
My 4th grade teacher was the first one to get why I was bored. She got seperate learning modules for me and I burned through those like wildfire.
Then the next year another teacher that didnt know why I was bored again.
Then I got sent to a special class where some kids were behind and others were advanced. This time I got the modules again and burned through them. I was in the class for 4 years and they figured out I was gifted. I will always have a special spot in my heart for every teacher that cared to investigate why I was bored.
All the years when my education kept up with me I wasen't bored.
However my math skills were awful.
I still struggle with basic math. I'm 56 years old and simple math like multiplication confounds me.
I have adhd was diagnosed in the 70's in 2nd grade. When I was taken off ritalin because it was assumed one grew out of it. For years my adhd symptoms made me even more miserable on top of having a mental illness and trauma. I thought it was all my mental illness and I no longer had adhd.. But it wasen't just mental illness .
I am on Adderall now and can function,still have mental illness and trauma,but not having bad adhd symptoms on top of all the other shit I deal with is better than not being on adderall and still having adhd symptoms kicking me in the ass daily.
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