mistakes

Tiger_Lily · Jan 30, 2013, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Secretum

((everyone)) It sucks when people view us as "lazy". I also have ADHD, which causes me to make a lot of stupid mistakes. I've literally lost hundreds of points in math classes over the years thanks to careless errors in arithmetic. And even in conversations, I sometimes say the dumbest things. This drives my social anxiety. I hate it. I wish that I could just count on my brain to be reliable.

I know what you mean about disclosure backfiring on you. I got behind in my classes last semester because I was distracted from my ADHD (I had stopped taking my wellbutrin, which helps me focus) and was also running a bit manic. Once things calmed down and I got back on the wellbutrin, I did everything I could to catch up in my classes. I thought that I could be honest with my experimental psych professor; after all, he's a psychologist. Telling him that I have bipolar and ADHD was a big mistake. He started bullying me during the one-on-one meetings we had to have to plan our final project; he actually made me cry twice. I talked to my advisor and my TA about it, and they convinced him to stop treating me so poorly. But he got his way in the end; I got a C in the course. Despite the fact that I scored well above average on all of the exams. He didn't start being nasty to me until I disclosed my diagnoses.

Ugh. It's just so frustrating that people don't understand!

Can you still appeal the grade? Or is it too late?

Jan 31, 2013, 05:48 AM

i think i am 1 big mistake anyway.

Jan 31, 2013, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by shattered sanity

i think i am 1 big mistake anyway.

nope. Not going to let you get away with this one. I relate to most of your posts. And I know that you are going through a really, really hard time right now. But i'm not going to let you or anyone else trash talk my friend Shattered Sanity! i really respect her and I wish you would give her a break! That is the theme that I am learning. We can learn it together Shattered.

creativelight · Jan 31, 2013, 08:59 AM

You know, when I worked at the DFCS, I was always bullied because I'm Hispanic.. My boss would make fun of me and was very disrespectful. She used to call me jenifer lopez and would call me by rodriguez instead of my last name. To the extend that my co workers made me talk to the Director of Social serv, which did nothing. Not one thing. Then I was under so much stress I disclosed to some I was bp, she found out and then she started calling me "special"... I just had to quit.

faerie_moon_x · Jan 31, 2013, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by shattered sanity

i think i am 1 big mistake anyway.

This is totally not true, Shattered.

Jan 31, 2013, 11:04 AM

D.H. ... can I talk to you about something?

Jan 31, 2013, 11:05 AM

or anyone?

faerie_moon_x · Jan 31, 2013, 11:07 AM

What's up Dan?

Secretum · Jan 31, 2013, 05:45 PM

Unfortunately, I don't think I can appeal the grade. The final project (a 15 page research paper based on an experiment I had to conduct) was a major portion of the grade, and my prof graded that very harshly.

I also didn't do so well on some of the other papers, further lowering my grade. But I did do well on the exams, which is arguably the most objective measure of how well I grasped the course material...

I should be grateful; I suppose he could have failed me if he really wanted to.

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