Many people say ADHD has a negative effect on school because of the stereotype that ADHD is just not focusing. However, in my experience, I hyper fixate on my schoolwork and get it done faster, which helps my grades. Am I the only one?
I have never been good at school, except languages and nature/science. So when I took chemistry and physics, I almost failed, but during exams I got that good adhd stress, and managed to get a B+. So let me tell you how it went down, because it’s actually hilarious. We spent the school year building a rig with pumps, vents, lights and pipes, as well as 4 cylinders. I walked in to find the rig we had built, and the teacher says: you come in at work, this happens, what do you do?! Exam starting now! He pushed on a button and all 4 cylinders started filling up with water, and I panicked. I didn’t remember how to control anything! Then my adhd kicked in, and I slammed in the big STOP button (for security) and everything stopped. The teacher looked at me with a bad look and said: what you did that for?? And I answered: I don’t know what kind of work Im supposed to be at, so I don’t know wha fluid it’s in that pipe. For all I know it could be dangerous to equipment, to people or environment. I stopped it from spilling over. I don’t handle fluids I don’t know. I got an applause for fast thinking, while on the inside I was like “how the h did that pass??”😂😂
I was diagnosed after school and graduated with a "okay Abitur" but I took a year of afterwards and went into a mental clinic for my anxiety attacks and depression because I was completely burnt-out. 13 years of school was hell for me. Now iam in "Berufsschule" and iam coping okay but not good
Well for me ADHD balances itself mostly😅 I can't focus most of the time but when time for the exams come, or a topic occurs that I am interested in; I can easily catch up with that "urgency" feeling and get really high grades 😅😅 This is exhausting for sure but, it is what it is, I've accepted that 😅😅
Only one exception: as an architecture student, this way is not working very well with studio works as it does with any other class... 🫠
To go along with this the downside to it is that it’s almost like to keep the hyperfocus I have to make it my personality to stay consistent and it seems when I lose consistency it’s hard to recover and get back into it
For sure! The balance is so rough when I’m hyper-focus, I excel in school but flunk when it comes to relationships so the struggle is real hahaha
Yeah, I had that a little bit. But once you get back into the swing of things (though it takes forever) it got easier with time.
At the beginning of the school year I was always bad in school. After some time I got better. From bad grades to best grades, but it was always an up and down. Every school year again. My teachers always called me just lazy and unmotivated … I hated school with every single fiber of my body.
I relate to this, I got on ok at school and have often wondered if that means I don't have ADHD (don't have a diagnosis) but think I was just lucky that I was interested in lots of things so was able to hyperfocus.
Yeahhhh, same
Seems on the votes in the minority. I struggled to focus unless I was interested in the subject. Subjects I was interested in I passed with flying colours. The rest were abysmal. Another issue was retaining what I was learning and as I moved through the school years it became more and more difficult.
I was really on and off with school.. i was really good at health, family consumer science, English, and i feel if I would’ve taken Spanish a little more serious I could have done pretty good there too. BUT my struggling classes were math and reading mostly. I couldn’t understand it and had to be tested over and over again in school (early 2000’s when there was no research for girls and women with adhd really), I forgot what I would read and couldn’t answer questions about the story after reading it. I couldn’t do subtraction no matter how it was explained to me and I noticed teachers getting frustrated and impatient because I could not understand. My lack of ability to understand certain subjects lead me to completely blow off school work around 6th grade and ended up in lunch detention because I nearly failed 6th grade.
