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Yeah, I realised most people would think of those.

Literally the fact that she was willing to concede having misjudged me when very few people would do so.

Specifically it was because I could answer her questions even though I appeared to be fixated on reading the textbook in another section; but of course I could, I read the relevant section when she started lecturing and just read way ahead because I read quicker than people expect.

Hopefully you can but I'd accept your self-diagnosis as well, especially if you pursue some sort of online testing and apply your own critical thinking on the topic.

I don't think you'd self-declare just to feel special, and not just cuz we already think you're plenty special.

not dx'ed formally but i've long had to be careful when getting up from reclining position or else i'd "brown out" in my brain.

Are you always reclined?
I don't sit on chairs.
I'm always sprawled out on my back with my laptop on my belly.
I feel sick sitting up properly.
Standing is even worse.

My trauma therapist said she's the same and it's POTS.
I've never noticed if I have a BP drop or not, but it sounds possible.

I know what you mean about the brown outs.
I actually see stars most of the time.

sometimes it is sitting in a low chair and getting up from that which does the brown outs unless i get up in stages.

High School ADHD -

One of the main things my ADHD assessor wanted to see was proof that my grades vacillated all over the place, that my attendance fluctuated depending on the class, and that I over / underachieved simultaneously.






French - Semester 1: 94% (Class median 73, Absences 4)
Biology - Semester 1: 30% (Class median 72, Absences 5)




French - Semester 2: 94% (Class median 64, Absences 1)
Biology - Semester 2: 38% (Class median 68, Absences 19)

* FAILED so I wouldn't have to touch worms or kill bees*


Teacher names blocked out.

It feels strange to see the word special in a positive context.



Welp. My school history will make that...interesting.

For instance, I had a terrible teacher who taught us the wrong syllabus for an entire year. As a result, my work was void and I had to retake the previous year's work whilst also doing the current year's workload. To make this possible, I had to flunk out on certain subjects because I simply didn't have the time to do everything. There's also the issue that some of my reports haven't exactly been proofread. I particularly like the part where I unintentionally become one of my classmates for a paragraph and then switch back.

So, some of my grades can be explained due to absolute chaos.

My bad marks in maths are very likely due to undiagnosed learning difficulties. It's pretty obvious that something is going on there based on the instances where I've written questions backwards and have used inefficient methods to work things out. I have records from educators showing severely low visual processing scores. No official label though.

My English mock tests were all over the place. E's, B's, C's purely depending on the week. So, that could be an example if I can find those records. It may prove difficult to distinguish moments of my own erratic scores from just attending a poorly run secondary school. I definitely had issues on top of the chaos surrounding me.

Funnily enough, I was one of four students who passed a science mock. I remember it had a question about cat genetics which was fortunately one of my interests so I did excellent on that. Then I went on to do poorly (about a C-) in the actual test when most of the class did well. My teachers were puzzled.

A shame I don't know where my results from the reasoning test I did in primary school went. I scored above average on that test and it was used as proof that I didn't need help. My sister scored higher than me.

Currently employed. I should count my blessings. My neurology is such that I am strong on IQ and and do good work for good pay. It is also like a fire hose that is hard or impossible to control at times so I go down rabbit holes solving problems no-one is paying me to solve (or want solved) or get lost on the internet, or get depressed and anxious and shut down. Consequently “job security” is hard to come by. As George Carlin says “when everyone IS out to get you paranoid is just good thinking” or in my case “when your ef IS haywire job Anxiety is just good thinking” problem for me is finding enough anxiety to stay productive and focus and not loose my job, without so much anxiety that I shut down or go wandering and loose my job.

During COVID-19 I didn’t manage that well and lost my job eventually.

Back in the soup again.

LOL
(No, REALLY LOL)

Sometimes when someone tells I’m “special” I reply “I belong on the special bus”

But, only sometimes.

To people sharing about grades being up and down: Me. My two sons. My daughter got a special award in 8th grade (age 14) for having the best grades in the school.

Ain’t ADHD grand?

Remember my French grade at 94% ?


The following year -






12% (Median 74, Absences 20)


-- womp womp womp --


Then like Fenn's daughter, when I graduated two years later I got the State French Award.
I had the highest achievement of anyone in French.

There is a comedian who records funny stories about “Bert and I”. The characters are fictional fishermen in New England. One story is about a motor boat they have with a one cylinder engine. The old engine has uneven behavior and the one cylinder fails to fire sometimes for several strokes in a row. The old boat still works because there is a big heavy flywheel that carries through and keeps the cylinder’s piston moving until it fires again. Must have really been such I boat in real life to inspire the story.

My life is like that one cylinder engine. The real trick is finding and relying on that flywheel because the mental cylinders really don’t fire properly all the time.

But sometimes the boat really does stall, and can be hard to get started again.

I've never been diagnosed with ADHD, or even ADD because I definitely don't have the "hyperactive" part.

But then again, I'm lucky to even be diagnosed with Asperger's.