Mostly, my teachers just accepted I was too smart for my own good--especially after I kept correcting them--and allowed me to do my own thing. I hated read-aloud time though. Hated it. Especially since I always wanted to help them move it the fuck along, and I think I got the reputation of being a know-it-all as a result. Not that I wasn't, but...
The really annoying (and by annoying I mean really cripplingly depressing and confusing) upshot of all this precociousness was when the ADD started kicking in and all anyone would ever say to me was "You're so smart! How come you're not getting all 'A's? How come you're failing? You know, if you just did your work, you'd not be in this mess." And then there came the lying and the depression and the social phobia and all those other fun things.
Anyhow, I remember vividly sitting in first or second grade and being deathly bored while the kids in my class tried to sound out the one-syllable words to some story about a worm. It was printed in huge type on the paper with the two solid lines and the dotted line that was meant to teach you how to write the letters... I wanted to get back to reading Little House in the Big Woods or The Chronicles of Narnia or something.
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The really annoying (and by annoying I mean really cripplingly depressing and confusing) upshot of all this precociousness was when the ADD started kicking in and all anyone would ever say to me was "You're so smart! How come you're not getting all 'A's? How come you're failing? You know, if you just did your work, you'd not be in this mess." And then there came the lying and the depression and the social phobia and all those other fun things.
Anyhow, I remember vividly sitting in first or second grade and being deathly bored while the kids in my class tried to sound out the one-syllable words to some story about a worm. It was printed in huge type on the paper with the two solid lines and the dotted line that was meant to teach you how to write the letters... I wanted to get back to reading Little House in the Big Woods or The Chronicles of Narnia or something.