• eyes@lemmy.world
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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.

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          21 hours ago

          “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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        21 hours 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”.