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Originally Posted by mulan
Teachers always giving me bad practical classes' grades because I was to quiet, colleagues thinking I was a study mouse, because I had high grades at exams. Thinking I only occupied my time with it, because I barely socialized. And I was dissociated at home, sleeping most of the time and wasting time doing nothing... The good old depression. I could barely study, think or memorize stuff. And I was the best at so much ****, I earned some prizes for best student... So much missunderstood. I had no one to talk to that could see through me.
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I'm sorry to hear about all that.
People make assumptions. It's how we process the world and get through the day without being overloaded. But when someone different -- outside our experience -- comes along, we can make the wrong assumptions. And some people just aren't very thoughtful or understanding.
I used to get flack and be assumed to be lazy (I even believed it somewhat myself) when it was social anxiety and poor self-esteem that was making me hold back most of the time.
So, although it's not all the same as what you describe, I think I get the difficulties and frustration.
