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Adult with Learning Problems. Please Help.
hello, i am new. i hope i get some good advice. i am 23 will be 24 at the end of the month and i need some help. ever since i was a kid, my teachers wanted to put me in special classes and not test my learning. all my life, my teachers were complaining that i dont pay attention, it wasnt a once in a while, it was becoming a problem.
i used to have a good memory when i was a kid, as i got older that became a prob. my teachers would complain that my grades weren't good as the "smart kids" and how i didn't excell academically. i excelled in music by playing the violin, but i played that for a year in 4th grade. my teachers always complained that my study habits were bad. i actually get bored when studying, i really do.
for example, i will study my notes/textbook for 5 mins then my mind will go off to something else - its always been like that since i was a child. i read in an ad/dh book that people who have the problem tend to start things but never finish them that is totally me. when i do read, i cant remember what i just read.
i would read it, then forget it not remembering what i need to know for a test. another example would be have me think of an idea for a project for the group, i would sit there all day thinking of an idea and wont come up for the idea until the last minute. then i would get yelled at and embarrassed not only by the group but in front of the whole class, it has happen way 2 many times i almost cried. my teachers complained that i was 2 slow that i couldn't learn as quickly as the normal students and that i'm not reaching my full potential.
so, studying became a huge prob for me academically even now when i was in college and working. i read some ad/dh books and it helped me realized my probs that i've been struggling for a long time. it was just like what my k-12 teachers have said. i never got tested for a learning problem, i don't need a test to determine what's wrong. i started noticing a problem when i was in middle and high school. i had one high school teacher who was gonna get me help, but me and her ended up having a huge fallout about something else and argued until i got kicked out of the class, so i never got the help nor was it my fault we got into that nasty argument.
i cant really sit and listen to someone talk, my mind goes somewhere else and i don't pay attention i have to say can u say that again like 5 times? so i can understand what the person was saying and i noticed that frustrated people a lot. it caused me to cry.
directions and instructions have to be repeated to me quite a bit so i can understand. i can hear it, but it doesn't sink in memory wise. i read that ad/dh people have problems in school. my old doc wanted me to have a neurological scan done for emotional problems i never told him about my learning problems. i cant really talk to counselors or professors about my prob they always say you are not studying hard enough i wanted to tell them well shit the memory chain in my brain breaks when it comes to remembering shit for a damn test! i wanted to scream at them!
i read so much in those books but i wont make a novel about what i was reading. my parents never took me to have my learning tested. i'm sorry but if i am learning something i will get bored 2 easily. everything i try to learn
becomes so boring to me, i suffer from chronic boredom that's what i read in the books and online. whats strange is listening to something that's interesting/passionate seems to make me feel so bored that i space out into a different realm.
if u were explaining to me about science, i will get interested then end up losing interest in it becasue i got super bored about it even though i am interested in it. when it comes to academics, i get very bored reading a textbook or sitting down practicing something. i just fidget so much and do something else forgetting my assignments/projects completely. i would come home with half done or didn't do the assignment(s).
So, it is hard for me to excel in academics yet alone a job when i am a very slow learner. i have racing thoughts that prevent me actually doing things. its hard to learn when u got all of these problems and u cant function like a normal person. i would get yelled at constantly and get called stupid all the time, who wants to hear that?
however, from what i was reading, it listed things that i've always suffered from all my life. the things i take seriously is what ppl/teachers have told me: very slow learner academically, never paying attention, memory chain being broke and cant recite what i read or put it to use by hand, not living to my potential, slow in auditory, poor study habits, chronic boredom, etc. when it comes to practicing things, it takes forever and i cant get the skills i need in a certain amount of time.
i get distracted easily like 2 much every lil' thing i see or hear distracts me. i do not take prescriptions, i dont take prescriptions at all - i only take herbs for my health only becasue i am eco friendly. i was wondering does anyone have
any advice about my learning? i do learn visually and by using my hands, most cases i end up being confused by my own learning style when learning things.
my question is can someone help me? any advice?
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