More than just lazy, but no one believes it

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Sounds like you have a different learning style. I also hated homework too and mom always had to make me do it. I was one of those kids who always had tons and tons of homework while the other kids had very little and it was no problem for them but for me it was hell. Luckily mom would give me breaks at home and then it be back to homework time. Reason why I had tons and tons of homework was because I failed to finish it in school. I get too distracted due to all the chaos in the class and I had a hard time focusing on my school work and I wanted to get it don but it was hard to stay focus and motivated to do it. I was diagnosed as having ADD. It may have been sensory issues but I don't know. Lot of aspies get misdiagnosed as having ADHD because the symptoms look the same. Plus I remember I hardly learn things I wasn't even interested in. I still did the school work. I can remember sometimes things would interest me we would be learning such as the planet earth so I came home from school one day and tried to dog to the lava in our backyard. But I gave up after a few days because the ground got too hard for me to dig deeper. Then I find out later how thick the crust actually is. I knew then there is no way I can dig down that far. Things got easier for me when I got extra help with my school work. I would have quit probably if I didn't get the help I needed. I would have gotten so far behind and held back I would have eventually dropped out. And my mother says high school is easier than elementary school but I think high school is harder because the work is more abstract and PE is boring because it's all sports than fun games.

My opinion is irrelevant to this particular thread; the question is: How will a parent/teacher/doctor from the "Reefer Madness" generation react to the OP's use of a drug widely believed to affect memory, concentration, and motivation? Will this help, or hinder, Scum's effort to have her other problems taken seriously and to shed her reputation as "lazy"?

I've contributed to several drug-related discussions here, if you'd like to know my personal thoughts on the matter.

That didn't stop you from giving an opinion, did it.




Scum is an adult, stop thinking of her as a child. As I've already said her parents don't need to know. Let me point out to you that the likely reaction from a parent/teacher/doctor from the reefer madness generation would likely be either sh*****g their adult diaper or rolling over in their grave because most of them have died of old age. She is more likely to encounter someone who smoked MJ in the 60s, those people are now coming up on retirement age. In fact, both the California Medical Association and the American Medical Association agree that cannabis is medicinal. I'd say that points to the fact that those reefer madness doctors are long gone. A clear majority of Americans support medical marijuana.



That may be true but you're still stuck in a mindset where cannabis is still taboo. Pothead? Reefer madness generation? Where have you been? Stop thinking of it as an illicit drug and think of it as medicine.

I am pro-legalization, for medicinal or recreational use.