Mauapropisms

I was considered a lazy kid by many accounts. I did not perform well in middle and high school, and so felt I wasn’t really cut out for academia and study. In fact if I were to describe all the ways in which I struggled, they would very definitively point to ADHD, but as a child of the 80’s and 90’s the awareness and acceptance of these differences was not as it is today. In fact it wasn’t until I was in the 10th grade that a teacher suggested I get tested for a learning disability. My teacher couldn’t understand why I could verbally articulate and display a deep comprehension of a subject matter, yet none of that seemed to translate to writing. So I took assessment and the results came back that I was “lazy”… a stigma I still struggle with today, decades later.

However, this did result in my approaching my mother and asking her to teach me grammar. We started from scratch and covered objects, predicates, subjects. We discussed how they were used and their purpose. Once I had that understanding of “WHY” things were functioning the way they did, it opened up the world of writing to me. I began to write more clearly, and could express my thoughts on paper much more effectively and efficiently. Though I still struggle with “ADHD brain” as outlined in this humorous display of different narrative styles.