the way mine works isi can read the stuff absorb it really well and if im likeallowed to start talking on it myself i will be professor grade knowledgeable   x200b  someone just comes up and asks me greeneyedcat you read all those books on pirates whats the answer to this question  yeah nah fam ive forgotten everything i think ive forgotten what the word pirate means gimme a sec  and so on   x200b  i am increasingly positive my adhd dyscalculia and dysgraphia combined left me such amess that despite recognising i was highly intelligent for my age my teachers never flagged me as gifted to be clear one of my siblings was flagged as gifted and the teachers would say to our mother greeneyedcat is smarter than him but he can cope with the work  x200b  literally cheated me out of a better education because they wouldnt make the effort to try and understand a six year old even though the gifted classes would have flagged all my issues and addressed them then   my school had no special education resource unless a child wasseverely impaired and then theyd just try and push the parents to take them somewhere else the irony being the school was founded by a man who initially opened special education schools for disabled children because of his own daughters isssues my school once locked an autistic child in a closet while he deregulated because they had no quiet room for him