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everyone! I really enjoyed reading reading everyone's great posts and sorry didn't get back sooner
like so many, I spent hours and hours struggling with math, and as a kid, i remember my dad sitting at a table with me trying to help me get subtraction which I didn't understand AT ALL for long time. He would get so frustrated and I would get so frustrated and impatient, with just sitting there waiting for him to figure what I was supposed to be doing for the homework and then trying to explain to me. We'd go around and around and I'd cry because there were so many times I was just so frustrated and embarrassed but I wasn't able to verbalize that. And my mom would get upset with my dad and with me and then my folks - who used to fight a lot - would argue and it was very difficult for me.
I also enjoy history and reading and love to learn; history was one of my favorite high school classes! I took AP History my Senior year and loved it.
I did, however, refuse to a do an oral presentation and so got a B instead of an A. I have always been a shy student and combine that with speech issues and after-effects of a lot of bullying in the lower grades and so that background still affected me in my high school years, though I was no longer physically threatened/bullied at that time.
Julie, I don't know
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how many times I've been like "I don't know" about something like - how far away was that car <involving vehicle accident report with officials - police, insurance etc.> -me - I don't know.
at a job learning about counter procedures involving register - supervisor: sales tax, what? Me - I don't know.
Un-expected math-related questions during interview for a vet assistant/office job... <me> - I don't know
just recently: want to help out when I saw dog pee in shelter hallway as he was being taken outside by dogwalker <I'm another shelter volunteer but I do training/behavior stuff>....so I go to closet to get mop, bucket, etc and find bucket has no solution in it.
Am told - instructions on paper on the interior closet wall. Well, damn, often have trouble with sequences and lists of instructions and also there's measurements - oz., gallon....
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those mean nothing to me. So I found a kennel worker and she showed me the procedure. If I can get a picture in my mind, I can more likely do whatever it is based on the picture.
Krisina, I think your daughter is lucky to have you; I know she is blessed by your patience and your own sense of perspective. I imagine it's pretty hard for everyone, too, sometimes! Especially if you personally do well with math.
So I can see how open and caring I bet you are with your daughter and your family, Kristina
In college, I had several accommodations available in my classes, though I couldn't sub or waive Stats. I was lost the very first day in there, but the prof. was kind. I've always taken good notes even if they are just gibberish to me and part of that class was the notebook so that also helped. I got either a D or C in it.
Feeling hopeless is hard and sad; I've felt that way, too...I remember in high school chem., which mad no sense either but again - I had those "great notes" <gibberish> and also attendence was part of grade - but in chem., I'd often leave for "bathroom" and just go to stairway in corner of the floor <so it was kinda isolated> and sit on the step and cry.
What has helped me especially during the school years was to focus on something I was good at and enjoyed, like you wrote how much you enjoy history, beatlemorgan
those look like many great grades, too, Dixie - same as me in many of them. Did well in science like Bio, Anthropology <college- loved that> and some Geology, but not Chem., as stated above. I took AP Bio in high school and that really helped prepare for the college Biology.
That seems terrible how you were grounded and yelled at and so on....and kinda scary maybe too in some ways.
My mom is a big advocate/activist for public schools <she has been active in state and national levels>, children's education, equal education/civil rights and especially "Special Ed" - but she had/has a hard time believing I have LD so that impacted her ability to see me in that way during my school years.
everybody
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for sharing
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