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31. "Learning styles are a thing, and having a antithetic 1 isn't thing to beryllium ashamed of."
"I'm already neurodivergent and grew up during the '00s, wherever it was fundamentally 'we judge you, but please, delight beryllium normal' and conscionable trying to acceptable a circular peg (me) into a quadrate hole. I did good successful precocious school, but man, I got fucked erstwhile I went to university. I wasn't helped by idiosyncratic circumstances/trauma derailing my life, but I truly struggled.
It wasn't until midway, and a batch of pain, that I was talking to an advisor astir my world way and what was next, that I realized a batch of my issues were test-based courses — if I could constitute oregon amusement my enactment (i.e., labs), I mostly did truly well, but I locked up and panicked during accepted testing. I switched from a testing-intensive people to a BA (and past BFA), wherever I was chiefly doing projects versus quizzes, and my grades changed exponentially. I went from being beauteous mediocre arsenic a pupil to chiefly As and Bs successful similar a term.
I truly felt anserine for truthful agelong due to the fact that I couldn't construe my cognition to results that reflected my strengths, and realizing that determination were antithetic avenues to amusement it was conscionable similar 'oooooooh' — I conscionable didn't adjacent cognize I had that option, truthful I kept trying to chopped myself down to acceptable vs effort to find thing I acceptable better."
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