Smart kids often have a tough time in school, but smart kids w/ learning disabilities, cognitive or behavioral eccentricities have to contend w/ a system that bundles them into a category defined by deficiency, expects little of them, forces their attention onto self-suppression
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It should obviously be easier for an adult to pretend to be a big child than for a child to pretend to be a little adult, and yet it's not difficult to see how much cognition & attention that task would continuously drain. To fail is to be seen as dumb, to succeed is to *be* dumb
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