Strange Changes

[Rackinac]

I remember teachers being so strict when it came to the way people hold their pencils.

Seriously. My teacher made me stay after because of the way I held my pencil. I said "It helps me draw stuff, otherwise I can't make any drawings." She said "You're doing it wrong."

Guess who had the better argument...

Now my teachers think it's cool. And that's cool.

[Fluory]

I remember teachers being so strict when it came to the way people hold their pencils.

Seriously. My teacher made me stay after because of the way I held my pencil. I said "It helps me draw stuff, otherwise I can't make any drawings." She said "You're doing it wrong."

Guess who had the better argument...

Now my teachers think it's cool. And that's cool.

Whoa, man. That's just like me; I hold my pencil incorrectly all the time. I have a lack of control of the pencil when I hold it the "correct" way, so I just kind of got angry and stopped trying to do it right. So now I hold my pencil all weird, and I recall that between kindergarten and second grade, all of my teachers had seizures over this small little detail.

Now, though, it's all cool. I just get some occasional comments about how strange it is by random people, but nothing too exciting.

Hm, speaking of ADD, I remember when everything wasn't a disease. When I was in elementary and middleschool, you never heard of all that. If you didn't do your work, acted up, didn't pay attention, etc. then you were a bad student, a slacker, a trouble maker. If you bounced off the walls, you were just hyper or youthful and full of energy. Now it seems they have an excuse for everything. Your son doesn't do his work and doesn't listen to the teachers? He has ADD, get him some meds. He's hyper? Better get the Ritalin. I swear, anything you can come up with today, it's a disease and they have medicine for it. Not trying to offend anyone, but really, I think it's rediculous.

[Rackinac]

I was thought to have ADD in pre-school because I glued a macaroni 'A' before the teachers told us to. I was all proud too that I knew how to do it before the teachers told us. But instead they weren't proud and sent me somewhere else, only for them to find out that I don't have ADD, if anything I was just a normal 4 year old girl.

But they kept sending me back there after a few other things; instead of colouring an apple red I coloured it purple and blue(I thought it was a plum), drawing on the black board(I don't see the big deal, my pictures would erase off), playing with only boys, ect.

But I'm still negative for ADD. The point is though that I see it that I was just a normal girl that just did different things than everybody else, but they just saw what was wrong with me.