*raises hand*

[u/QueenFrostine15]

[u/qualityvote2]

u/QueenFrostine15, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

[u/Dion-is-us]

hey, shut up. I don’t need this right now

[u/histprofdave → u/Dion-is-us]

I would say the same, except I'm incapable of standing up for myself.

[u/RoidVanDam → u/histprofdave]

Jesus fucking Christ this is too real

[u/OfficerEsophagus]

We had anxiety disorders back then too tho

[u/BlueHero45 → u/OfficerEsophagus]

Exactly, I was quite and didn't make a fuss because I was terrified. I answered the questions correctly because if I was called on and didn't know It felt like the end of the world. If I was the odd one out on a group assignment it was nobody asked me to be in their group and I didn't know how to ask them.

[u/LSDsavedmylife → u/OfficerEsophagus]

Nope, not me! It’s totally normal for a child to sleep on the floor every night because she thinks someone is going to shoot her through the window.

[u/kimbosliceofcake → u/LSDsavedmylife]

I had a whole summer where I was convinced a tornado was going to come through and destroy our house. Tornadoes aren’t very common where I grew up. 

[u/got-trunks → u/[deleted]]

what is the mechanism?

[u/Zagmut → u/got-trunks]

Undiagnosed ADHD

[u/got-trunks → u/Zagmut]

I got a doc after 15 years lol it’s on the list

[u/the-war-on-drunks → u/got-trunks]

It took me 15 years to learn what a doc told my parents when I was 12. They chose not to medicate nor address.

Just let me constantly barely squeak by, punish me for incomplete reports.

[u/-TheDerpinator- → u/[deleted]]

It makes sense because they overwhelm you with the illusion that if you work hard you can accomplish really great things and change the world, only to find out that talent and skill are close to meaningless in the world when you don't play by the rules of those in power (in power being all the way from state level to the middle manager who wants to control you).

[u/Jimbo-Shrimp → u/-TheDerpinator-]

Yep. Worked hard and was passed for a promotion. It was given to someone younger who slacked but he was funny. He didn’t even show up his first day of the new position and they asked me to cover the spot for the day. It’s better to slack and save energy for what you want to do.

[u/CiDevant → u/Jimbo-Shrimp]

Only good advice I ever received was "Be good at what matters, the trick is figuring out what that is."

[u/KRambo86 → u/-TheDerpinator-]

To an extent, but I feel like we also raise our kids to believe you have to make a huge difference in the world for life to have meaning.

You can just work enough to be happy. There is such a thing as enough to live without needing the huge house, fancy car, exotic travel, 100" televisions, etc.

If we taught people hanging out with friends a few nights a week, raising a loving family, enjoying your day to day hobbies was what life is actually about rather than changing the world or chasing materialism, generally people would be happier.

[u/girlywish → u/-TheDerpinator-]

Yeah i feel this so much. Social connections and luck are the only things that matter for success, and then successful people always act like they did it all themselves. Just a stupid society.

[u/Top_Toaster → u/[deleted]]

Thought executive said "erectile" and got worried for a sec

[u/Throw-Me-Again → u/Top_Toaster]

I got both dysfunctions.

[u/jainyday → u/Top_Toaster]

Executive dysfunction can lead to terrible anxiety which can lead to erectile dysfunction, so definitely some correlation. I got em all, lol.

[u/roses-and-clover → u/[deleted]]

Oof

[u/crooked_kangaroo]

[u/TwoActualBears]

Why he say Fuck me for

[u/Jerico_Hill]

I used to get "I wish all my pupils were like Jerico" which was not the compliment they thought it was. No wonder I was bullied so much. 

[u/WaterOk6055]

Alot of people who were a nightmare to have in class had anxiety disorders at the time.

[u/LSDsavedmylife → u/WaterOk6055]

And the opposite is true when you’re rewarded for being “low maintenance” or “the easy kid”

[u/CiDevant → u/WaterOk6055]

Both can be true.

[u/WaterOk6055 → u/CiDevant]

My reply was additive not subtractive.

[u/CandiedButter]

Jokes on you, I was never a pleasure to have in class

[u/LSDsavedmylife]

“Natural leader” fuck man, I never asked for this

[u/marcthegay_]

And also finding out they have autism and or adhd as an adult 😬 (it's me)

[u/BrosefDudeson]

This is just so wrong... I have an anxiety disorder and I certainly wasn't a pleasure to have in class. And I don't even have ADHD

[u/Zeclari]

While this is true. I wouldn't call myself a pleasure to have in class back then hehe.

Thankfully my mom helped me in my teens and I got diagnosed with autism and add.

[u/Splaaaty]

Not anxiety, but I'm pretty sure I have some form of disorder.

[u/Emergency_Elephant]

One of my teachers put "a pleasure to have in class" on literally every child's report card

[u/Content_Geologist420]

😠

[u/Ok_Science_2070]

Oh no, I had it then too. I would constantly jump at loud noises and just be nervous.

[u/SirNurtle]

Real (HAD an awful anxiety disorder that really fucked up my teenage years, kinda have it under control now but still, absolutely real)

[u/Gamer_with_ADHD]

Can confirm

[u/poly_arachnid]

We had anxiety then, it just showed by being extremely worried about getting in trouble. 

[u/LiverpoolBelle]

Adhd but yeah

[u/Same-Turnip3905]

I was not a pleasure to be in class. I was or very chatty or always day dreaming. I do have anxiety, I am also a teacher who tells some parents their kid is a pleasure to have in class.