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i’m dumb

Takenist

so i feel dumb

maybe you’ll disagree but anyway the reason i feel dumb is cuz

i am aspergic and a literary savant, i’ve started reading at 1 and i wrote a book at 8. no i will not be telling you the book title because it shows my personal information in it. i’ve written multiple drafts of books but stopped cuz i was just bored of them. i have an extremely good vocabulary, at least i think i do. at a young age i was reading books people older than me were reading. also, i read 1000 WPM.

all the info i just shared with you might make you think the antithesis of dumb but

i can’t focus in class. other people, my age seem to focus absolutely fine. i don’t focus cause it’s boring. i almost repeated a grade, but my math teacher made me retake a test. he told me a bit of info and i guess i learn quick because i went from an F from a C somehow

other than that i guess i also lack common sense sometimes and i miss obvious things so yeah that’s why i conclude i’m dumb

  • Please be assured that you're not dumb.

    It's just that the autistic brain works very differently and the teaching styles in schools don't suit that at all. Ideally you'd focus on one subject and not have to keep trying to change focus between them all the time.

    Learning to read at a very early age and having a good vocabulary is actually quite common among autistic people. It's known as Hyperlexia. I taught myself to read at a very early age too. Once I got to nursery school (aged 3) I found the whole thing to be not what I expected at all. I thought I was going to learn with books etc, but instead there was just this strange sort of play learning that I didn't understand.

    If the rest of the class are behind or the subject isn't one of your interests then it's understandable if you don't find it interesting or motivating. The teachers should be helping you find a method of learning that works for you, but that is hard to achieve when class sizes are large. You could try teaching yourself from textbooks or online, that way you could excel in exams despite school not because of it.