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*cracks knuckles*

PREPARE FOR A NEEDLESSLY LONG RANT ON ADHD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1.       We don’t all fail classes and struggle to keep our grades up!!

Actually I have an outstanding GPA and I’m that annoying student ALWAYS answers the teacher’s questions, whether or not I know the right answer which actually gets you a lot of extra brownie points for looking sparkly-eyed and interested. Which…doesn’t mean I’m actually interested, it just means I’m under-stimulated and have learned to cope by looking intelligent and nodding my head whenever the teacher looks at me, while jiggling my leg and looking at the people around me including the other ADHD girl beside me who was really excited about Hello Kitty and played Sonic before class and left her screen angled so I can look over her shoulder and watch her play games.

She got so bored she actually put earplugs in and bebopped to her own music behind the large computer screen after trying to doze off, she only pulled them out when I started writing notes again, then she flipped back to super attentive student.

And this is how ADHD works I do classes, doodle on my notepad during classes, scroll Pinterest, catch myself, try to make notes, feel like I already know most of this stuff I just need to be attentive for the assignments and blurt out answers and present work for critique to get the extra brownie points that make my professor feel like I’m “a pleasure to teach”.

Oh ADHD works is … right now I’m mentally describing everyone in the classroom yesterday because I used that as an example and I want to walk through it 10 times to “file” the information and all the feelings and sensations and emotions and things I wish I had observed more attentively and at the same time I just remembered I wanted to listen to Sonic video game music coz I just found that song yesterday too.

But anyway, ADHD doesn’t mean I fail grades; I am very inattentive but I can still prioritize and break down my work…sorta…I can make a good enough impression on my teachers to get away with a lot of small errors as long as I know the basics! It can make people fail grades esp if the how you work problems is very rigid. But being ADHD doesn’t automatically mean you constantly fail tests.

It tends to mean instead…