• Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    104·
    23 days ago

    I have been assured that I was “smart” but “lazy” when I was six 😡 .

    • brap@lemmy.world
      69·
      23 days ago

      Ah yes. I too should have applied myself more. So they kept saying. Repeatedly.

      • etherphon@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        401·
        23 days ago

        being told basically “Just be interested in this for no reason, what’s wrong with you?” in different variations is so confusing and backwards. yeah, I mean I tried

        • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          22 days ago

          All the while acing the things you are actually interested in. Were they just clueless 15 years ago or did they straight up not give a fuck???

      • Malfeasant@lemmy.world
        5·
        22 days ago

        I got frustrated with my dad at one point and said "then why the hell do I have just as much trouble doing things I want to do? He didn’t have an answer to that…

      • Aneb@lemmy.world
        3·
        21 days ago

        So I’m officially the blacksheep, the dropout in my family. I was in honors in college and high school. I got to the workforce and I’ve solely worked in the service industry cause apparently I don’t apply myself. I’m family therapy and when I told them I’m trying my hardest to find an apartment and looking for opportunities they said I wasn’t applying myself.

    • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      21 days ago

      Every parent/teacher evening contained a variety of “He’s got the ideas in his head, but won’t put them down on paper”, but I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until I was 39.