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Anyone here "quiet" ADHD?
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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.
"a pleasure to have in class, but needs to apply herself"
"Has a lot of potential" got used a lot
"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"
"It's no use, I push him as far as I could"
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.
I got that a lot, along with "has poor impulse control"... Bitches, if you only knew what impulses I was controlling...
Replace her with him and one of my school reports literally had that word for word lmfao.
Thanks for the flashbacks.
My partner got that on hers.
I got a mix of that and "a pleasure to have in class, but needs to work on not distracting others"
How I went 31 years with no raised eyebrows is funny to me, so many red flags attributed to being "quirky" or "eccentric".