Same here. I wouldn’t have made it past 4th. Grade. When I was in 3rd, our teacher asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be an F-15 pilot (mid-70’s). She wasn’t phased at all. I grew up with and around a lot of veterans.
Then in 4th grade, my eyes went really nearsighted and stayed that way until getting lasik a couple of years ago. I’m too tall and big to have been one anyway.
School bored me and I drew up all kinds of small arms, armor, planes, ships, and whatnot. Today I would be public school enemy #1.
According to the drawings I made in school, I posed a significant threat to NAZI Germany.