eyes comments on Anyone here "quiet" ADHD?

[–] eyes@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This was me during my youth - quiet, polite and serene on the outside, white noise on the inside. Teachers couldn't work out why I excelled at some things and failed totally at others, they thought I was smart but not applying myself to my work. It took me til my 30s to get a diagnosis.

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[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 49 points 1 year ago (7 children)

"a pleasure to have in class, but needs to apply herself"

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[–] eyes@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Has a lot of potential" got used a lot

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[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

"He easily deserves a B but he could get an A if he applied himself. I'll just give him a C so he tries harder"

gets a D *

"It's no use, I push him as far as I could"

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My parents were told I had it but they chose to ignore it fearing what others would think of them. May they rot.

My senior year I had 104 in computer science, a 99 in physics and a 100 in typing. In algebra I had a 75 and 72 in English. Somehow my parents blamed the teachers. It never occurred to them that the math for algebra and physics overlaps a lot. It didn't occur to my algebra teacher either.

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[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I got that a lot, along with "has poor impulse control"... Bitches, if you only knew what impulses I was controlling...

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[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

Replace her with him and one of my school reports literally had that word for word lmfao.