I have like 1 hour of locking in time before my brain power is depleted and i just wanna doomscroll

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I was an academic weapon in high school when they put me in basic courses even though theyd always talk about how smart I was. In college i aint had the same kind of success

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Probably just how good your support system is and it varies so you do too

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What they don't tell you is that this happens because society's metric of success is based on how well you can fit into an arbitrary set of boxes, most of which were not designed with neurodiversity in mind...

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i have adhd and this is me too!! i went undiagnosed until last october and now i've just started my 2nd sem of college. as a kid i was "gifted" and even got so many opportunities as a result and now i'm somehow in my uni's honour's college and literally miserable daily due to the structure of everything like i got a d- in calc last sem and even tho i did ok otherwise im just constantly getting put thru the ringer. like u said being "exceptional" and below average (in my case inept with the ++

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I’ve never heard somebody describe this feeling and I love it so much. Thank you 🥹

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Once drank a small cup of coffee and remembered years of programming, just to quite literally have it turn to shit an hour later

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This guy gets it

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just lock in bozo

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