getting though school with flying colours doing the bare minimum amount of work, and then getting to senior years of school and not knowing how to do any more than the bare minimum when you need to do so much more to get by, almost failing as a result

adhd getting in the way of literally everything

When everyone comes to you for help, so you have no time to get your own work done.

being the only one raising their hand to answer a question and the teacher dismissing you because she ‘knows that you already know' and she wants to see if the others do

you burn out on exhaustion from work but every one thinks you're fine because "you've always been super smart"

you know perfection isn't attainable but you still pour your heart out to get close to it because you're terrified of falling short

you grow up being praised for your intelligence and hard work but then you reach the point in life when adults are honest with you about how you can never measure up to superior people

when every class is a competition, especially when you dont want it to be