If I had been a young child today instead of back in the Sixties, they would have had me on Ritalin so fast it would have made the head swim.
I have all my report cards, and consistently from Kindergarten up to about the 8th or 9th grade, I was disruptive, wouldn’t pay attention in class, spent time drawing and reading non-classroom materials, or just looking out the window.
I think when I got into High School, I just shut up and retreated into a shell, but before then...
I got paddled a few times, and even lit a firecracker in French class in 7th grade and threw it under the seat of the kid in front of me.
Hell, they wouldn’t have given me Ritalin. They would have probably sent me to a special school.
Sit down and study. 😂
Been there, went there, and Navy still took me and sent me to sea. LOL in all seriousness I have a similar disorder called Central Auditory Processing Disorder or disorders. My sensory processing both auditory and optical has been life long. Allergies may have done the damage who knows.
I can only use one eye at a time and have to hear things often repeated to me. I ended up 7th and 8th grade in a rehab school to learn to adapt to it. In 1994 it became disabling. For the years after that I searched for a clinical name and the only one I found was Myoclonic Seizures. Onset was sudden. Certain optical and /or auditory stimulation caused me to spasm violently in my upper torso namely my shoulders and head.
So about 2 years ago I start developing a tremor in my right hand at first was mild then became more prevalent. I was sent to a Neurologist and she put the pieces of the puzzle together and I had guessed right. I have Functional Myoclonus. Then came the other part. I have Parkinson now to go with it. That was actually the reason I was sent to the Neurologist. My primary care doc wanted me checked for Parkinson. Two movement disorders both triggering involuntary movements.
Don’t know about you, but I was bored silly until High School.
Same!!
It’s my Superpower!
Ain’t my fault people can’t keep up with my quantum leap crazy segue James Burke Connections thought processes!
I always get where I’m mentally going and love the side quests on the way!
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Except for the firecracker you sound a lot like me. My report cards and parent/teacher conferences always included the phrase, ‘If he would just stay apply himself, he could do better. He is underachieving.’ It didn’t help that I had two prima donna sisters who were very academically oriented in the classical sense (A student types). I was tested as 142 IQ in the 5th grade well above either of my sisters. Also blew them away on the SATs and National Merit Scholarship test but was always a B-/C+ student. Scored a 97% on the LSAT but flunked but of college my freshman year. Bottom line I found school boring most of the time.
Wow! We could have met each other! Holy M-80, that could have been fun.