I'm smart. I know I am. When I was in grade school, they put me in classes a year (math) or two (reading) ahead of my normal grade level. I hardly saw someone my own age growing up, because I'd always be sitting in classes with older kids. It's really strange, because now most of my friends are younger than me. Maybe it's because I never grew up.
Anyway, by the time I got to high school, I was always the one setting the curve on the tests. With some few exceptions (French, Chemistry, and History), it didn't matter what the class was, I was always setting the test "A" scores. I passed every class with C's, though, because I never did my homework. I never could plan for it. It's like my life seemed too busy without it, somehow. Even in later life, I was miserable at paperwork at my jobs. This is what makes my therapist think I have a learning disability. Maybe I'm just lazy, though.
Anyway, I'm supposed to be being positive. This is harder than I expected.
So, in high school I took AP (Advanced Placement) exams, which are to pass out of college-level classes, in English, Calculus, and Physics. I got 6 out of 6 in all three. Pretty smart, huh?
In college, while I still had the money to go, it was slightly different. I had classes that would base most of the grades on homework, not tests. It was difficult to pass those, because I didn't do homework. I still aced tests, though, and that was good. I could never stick to one major, though, and thus wound up with so many credits in so many various classes that I was no closer to graduating three years into school than I had been when I started. Still, how many people can say they've been educated, to some degree, in so many different topics? I've been a creative writing, technical writing, physics, philosphy, math, English literature, computer science, and electrical engineering major in my lifetime, and I still want to go back to school because there's so much I don't know about the world.
Even in the work force, it's been my gift that I pick up things swiftly. All of my employers have loved me because I've never needed to be shown things more than twice to know them inside and out. In fact, I've been put in charge of training others at some point in almost every job I've had.
So who says I'm not smart? I know even I'm having trouble saying that right now.
More later, my favorite kats and kittens.