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.

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 45 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] eyes@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Has a lot of potential" got used a lot

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"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"

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

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

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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".

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the flashbacks.