What kind of kid were you?

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I was an odd one. I rarely took my work home, I was loud and obnoxious, got in fights, I was still considered the best student in the majority of my classes, I even was pretty much the second teacher in my first grade class....a lot of the time I was asked to give additional help to a group of 4-6 of the students that didn't grow up in an english speaking home, not that I could speak spanish but because I could get through to them with a little extra work. In 3rd grade I started begging for extra credit almost every night.

............But back on topic:


I did the work and was overall quiet and hence didn't socialize much, no surprise here, but had one friend, and didnt escape bullying in my freshman year.

Early school I do recall having too much anxiety on and off to around age 10. Scared.

I settled down later, and I did the work and in science class won 2nd place in the 4th grade Science Fair. Interestingly, I would have claimed first if I had been in the 5th, but was told 1st place was reserved exclusively for the 5th graders. Had a lot fun with this teacher for two years.

I had about the same in 8th grade when I participated in a school contest with 10- and 11- graders, won maximum number of points and could not get any formal grading because I was too young. Also cound not participate in further rounds of the contest.
The result being that when I grew up enough nobody could make me enter any school contest whatsoever. Lost my motivation in 8th grade already.

I don't really remember what kind of kid I was in school. I wonder why that is.

I remember teachers seemed to like me (one of my primary school teachers who lived in the same village as me would introduce me as her "favourite pupil" to people years after I went to secondary school).

I remember having "friends" but feeling like I didn't really fit in with them.

My school reports have themes of:
- disorganised and turning up for classes with the wrong books.
- quiet, thoughtful, sensitive
- not contributing in class but being able to give a good answer when asked.

I got good marks and enjoyed learning. Did great in my GCSE's but very badly in my A-Levels. Right around the time my school reports started saying that I was starting to contribute more in class .... hmmm, I wonder if that is somehow linked.