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Put Down the Ducky if You Wanna Play the Saxophone (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chibikaijuu) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button.
Sometimes I kind of wish people had just thought I was stupid, because I didn't get diagnosed with ADD until I was 20, so I spent all twelve years of ordinary schooling basically being constantly berated (in a nice, "helpful" way) for not getting straight As. Not that I was literally yelled at for not getting good grades, or that my parents ever indicated that they specifically wanted As, but every year I got to have at least one conference with a teacher/counselor/administrator about how well I would do if I just applied myself, and why was such a bright girl who knew so much not doing her work? My responses started out as tearful "I just forget about it" but eventually turned into "because fuck you", because I was just so utterly sick of hearing the same thing over and over, and trying to understand why no one understood that it was really hard for me to remember, and to just sit down and do an assignment (plus I eventually had myself convinced that homework was stupid, and why should I do it if I could learn the material without it?)
Sometimes I kind of wish people had just thought I was stupid, because I didn't get diagnosed with ADD until I was 20, so I spent all twelve years of ordinary schooling basically being constantly berated (in a nice, "helpful" way) for not getting straight As. Not that I was literally yelled at for not getting good grades, or that my parents ever indicated that they specifically wanted As, but every year I got to have at least one conference with a teacher/counselor/administrator about how well I would do if I just applied myself, and why was such a bright girl who knew so much not doing her work? My responses started out as tearful "I just forget about it" but eventually turned into "because fuck you", because I was just so utterly sick of hearing the same thing over and over, and trying to understand why no one understood that it was really hard for me to remember, and to just sit down and do an assignment (plus I eventually had myself convinced that homework was stupid, and why should I do it if I could learn the material without it?)
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