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Why the hell does this keep happening? I still hear horror stories of how people struggle for half of their lives and nobody stops to think "this isn't normal, we should see a doctor" and it just infuriates me.

Please, if it is negatively effecting your life or you get into arguments about it and it's effecting your social or home life, see a doctor.

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

When i was in 4th grade in the 90's i had a teacher that assumed something is was wrong with me. He watched me when we were skiing and i was always a bit overwhelmed when i had to use the ticket thing when there were a bunch of people waiting. He assumed i had some motorically problems.

I also knew back then that something was up but it wasn't that. I went to the doctor with my mom and he just testet my hand eye coordination. I was so worried that i was disabled or had to switch schools or something.

Oh man do i wish i got properly diagnosed back then. People sometimes don't believe me that i didn't do any homework for like 8 years in school. I never learned for a test, i never did a book report, i just winged my whole life.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure my life would be really different if I had had the ability to actually study instead of "read some of the chapter, skip the boring bits and exercises, and then call it good".

Per the doc, a better than average memory can do a good job masking that it's not encoding stuff right or that you're not getting half of what's being given.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Good thing I have severe short term memory loss.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That last fucking paragraph