Did any of you have problems with school?

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I had a few similar problems. I was diagnosed with ADHD, considered gifted, but in the normal program because they then had nothing better, and lost any interest in everything earlier. They sent me to a psychiatrist in the first grade because of social problems. I got straight As until about the third grade.

I don't know why, but I still have my 3rd grade report card. The first semester was straight As. The second had several Bs. I could generally get As if I wanted, but was often too involved in my interests to care. In my first school, they almost held me back because I NEVER did homework, but I did VERY well on every test.

The areas I hated worst were math and PE. In P.E., I didn't even TRY generally. In math, I just had a bad background, etc...

I moved around a LOT! In a mindmap I created, it shows SEVEN different schools, and 6 TOTALLY different areas, for the first 12 grades. So 2 years was the longest consecutive time I spent.

Maybe my own dislike of school came from first grade, when I was repeatedly scolded for work I had done that 'you [meaning I] couldn't have possibly done'.

Only R. was other a gifted child and then of course AS, but gifted T. too. But never Sora. For whatever reason I appeared to be 'mentally behind my peers'. And appear to 'spent so much time keeping up academically'.

So I did nothing in elementary school and got Bs and Cs. And doing nothing quickly turned into Es and Fs in secondary school, for the teacher also believed that I 'was nowhere fit to be in a grammar school and may be MR'.

And then my mom comes to me 14 years later and says 'that I was always so bright and maybe they should have done something about it when I got into school'.

Well, to her defence, I doubt anything she would have done would have helped any. Teachers who think you're MR won't change their opinion when your parents claim you're gifted. And 15 years ago, it was totally unknown what giftedness is like. Nobody (here) knew about it.

Yes, I think that's where my dislike for school is rooted.

I was in elementary school during the era of ugly clothes, the 70's. My first grade teacher considered me as slow. Only because I had difficulty adjusting to the strange world of school. By fourth grade I started having meltdowns when other kids teased me. I got back at one student on Valentine's Day when I wrote "I hate you" on his valentine. I was forced to apologize in front of the whole class, and then I lost it. Then, the 80's started.

I hated middle school and did not do well academically and socially. I don't know how I passed. High school I turned my academics completely around and I even had a few friends. I read a book about the new age movement and started telling everyone the world was going to end, I got laughed at for that. I memorized the entire words to all the songs in Jesus Christ Superstar and the Tommy.The new age movement and end-time prophecies are still a big thing for me. Then came college, then life was much better. I really could have easily have been one of those perpetual students for life, but you have to pay for all of it.

When I first started school, I was labeled as having dyslexia, I also remember being called stupid by my grade one teacher, while being stood up in front of the class, later on when I was 10 years old they labeled me as having ADHD on top of being dyslexic, and being that it was 1970, they put me a heavy dosage of Ritalin, which only made things worse. By this time, I couldn't be handled in a regular school setting, I was very disruptive in classes and wasn't learning, so I was put into a place call Glenrose School Hospital in Edmonton, where I was basically forced to obey or be severely punished, both emotionally and physically, like most of the children under their care, after getting out of that hell hole, I was enrolled into a jr high school and still couldn't handle the situation there, and didn't attend most of the time, I was then put into another school for troubled kids called Westfield also in Edmonton, it was populated by some very troubled teens, who I would say 90% had fetal alcohol syndrome, I really fit in there, I got the beats from the staff and the inmates, and they had a great form of therapy called Wall to Wall therapy, thats where the social worker would punch or throw you into a wall repeatedly. I was only there for one year, since they saw how well I was trying in classes, I was enrolled into high school and went on to pass grade 10, then went though half of grade 11 before quiting, and going to work for my dad. When I was 30 I decided I needed an education and took an adult upgrading course, over to years and received honors in English 20 - 30, Social Studies 10 though 30, Science 10, Biology 20 - 30, which is great for someone who failed at learning as a child. The one thing every teacher and social worker failed to notice was that I could read, well above the level of my peers, and that was because of my dad, who was the one who actually taught me to love reading, my lazy first grade teacher was very fond of labeling kids as trouble makers, or idiots, never even tried to teach. I only hope there is a hell just for that despicable piece of human garbage.

I hated school as a child. People constantly picked on me because I was different. That was especially true in Junior High and High school. I was never in any gifted and talented classes because I am too brain dead. In fact through most of my schooling, I was taking special ed classes probably because of my borderline intellectual functioning. The only talent I have is in art which doesn't require any brain power. The only time in my life where I didn't need special ed classes was in college because they didn't have any. At least to my knowledge. Believe it or not, I did well in college. I graduated with honors at the two year college. I took easy classes in college. There were some hard ones that I am completely surprised that I passed at all. One of those classes is oceanography. That was hard and really required a brain but since I ain't got one it was too hard for me. I really didn't get any of it because it was difficult. The easiest science class was weather. The reason why I had the highest grade in the entire class was not because I was bright, but because during flight school I took a weather class already and that is why I remembered some of it. And when I was young, I used to watch the weather channel all the time. So, yeah, I know about weather. At least back then. Now I don't since it has been many years since I took the weather class. The English classes were easy because I had easy going teachers in college. In junior high and high school english was difficult for me. The hardest classes in junior high and high school was history. I wasn't smart enough. In college once again I had an easy going teacher for history and then I really liked it because he made history come alive and was much easier to get. All my college classes were easy except the oceanography like I mentioned before. I didn't have to take any difficult math classes like calculus or anything like that. I got away with it somehow. In college the people are much nicer. I didn't get picked on then. So I enjoyed college. I was lucky in college that the classes were so much easier than high school. If I had difficult classes in college like many people do, I wouldn't have graduated with honors. I would have been at the bottom of the class probably. If I went to a University like my amazing brother, I wouldn't have passed because universities are a lot harder than community colleges. That is a fact. Anything that requires any brain power, I can't do.