Maybe it's a Maryland thing...
Iron1, More likely a Cleveland Ohio thing, transplanted to Maryland thing.
My guess and self diagnosis is, that when I was growing up, I was likely ADHD before there was such a thing.
In Elem School, my best subjects were Gym, and Recess followed by Lunch. The other stuff, my attention span sucked so bad, I could never finish reading something before the teacher was ever ready to ask us all questions about the material.
By the time I made it through Middle School, I did better at stuff like Algebra, or scientific stuff like, dinosaurs, archaeology, electro magnetism etc which was likely because I liked a challenge to figure stuff out.
But, stuff like sentence structures, punctuation, grammar, and hidden meanings supposedly in Author's words ( I was too literal to realize there was such a thing as hidden meanings and that a statement such as " The theme of the movie Little Big Man was really the writer's way of linking horrific genocide in Vietnam to that of how Indians were treated..." I did a research paper on this movie which I loved and thought was funny. But turned out that newspaper critics and writers addressed the theme as being the Genocide link. I HAD NO FRIGGEN CLUE< every time I saw Dustin Hoffman, the backwards on a horse riding Indian, and Chief Dan George, saying " It's not a good day for dying, Let's eat"
Now, I struggle, because I am tasked with handling at least 10 simultaneous responsibilities and learning stuff like Taxes, Elder Law, Medical and Health insurance, Medicare Medigap, Medicaid, Estate planning and preservation Power of Attorneys, Wills, and all manner of things that experts know, but I have to follow behind in order to get it done right. In other words, I seldom can just stop and concentrate on ONE thing. MY life of juggling, has equipped me to keep the balls in the air most of the time, but this means stuff like info retention often takes a lot of effort for things to permanently sink in and for me to learn, process and then regurgitate word for word.
LOL I could never be a singer, I can barely put 5 words together and spit it out right, 2 times in a row.
