“I remember my 5th grade teacher asking me, ‘Kimmy, why do you run everywhere? Why don’t you stop to smell the flowers?’ I looked up at her and said, ‘How can you walk and not run? Where are the flowers?’'
I was daydreaming so intensely that I actually got up, left classroom, and went out on the playground.“When I was 14, my neighbors asked me to feed their cat for three days while they were away.
— even with their house staring me in the face every day! Luckily, he was an outdoor cat and was fine.”. Tears welled up in my eyes and my mother asked me what was wrong. She sat down and worked with me through the entire assignment until it was done. She explained that every brain is different and focusing is harder for some.“One day in First Grade, my teacher was going over a cut-and-paste assignment step by step. For the first three steps, I totally understood.
I was distracted by a hole in the cubicle that I could stick my pencil through and didn’t finish a single equation.“I was late to school every morning because the lines in my socks would bother me. At first, they were angry, but then they seemed quite worried when they realized how hyperfocused I actually was.”. This was especially scary as I had always considered math to be my strongest subject. I didn’t tell a soul – I was embarrassed. Having been diagnosed with“In elementary school, I had to be moved from the ‘gifted’ language arts class to the standard class because the teacher moved way too quickly for my wandering brain.
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