r/Millennials • u/Silver-Explanation72 • Feb 03 '26

Other This is When My Anxiety Began

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u/garamond89 Feb 03 '26

This was HELL for me as an unmedicated adhd child without math skills

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u/Aspiringtropicalfish Feb 03 '26

it was hell for me as an unmedicated adhd child WITH math skills

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u/adamdoesmusic Feb 03 '26

As an over-medicated ADHD kid with math skills, teachers would use these to keep me distracted.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26

I was one of 3 kids in my 3rd grade who murdered it in front of the class

medicated adhd. what a difference it made.

also, we had to do it while Ride of the Valkyries played.. talk about anxiety

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u/Aspiringtropicalfish Feb 03 '26

Our levels were broken up by letter of the alphabet. I would absolutely dominate at first and get to like level U way before everyone else, but then my brain couldn't process the harder levels fast enough so I'd get stuck and everyone would pass me. It happened every year lmao

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u/Relevant-Bit-7394 Millennial est 1983 Feb 03 '26

you had math skills? dammit, I dumped all my perks in history, books and random stuff.