Wash ,'War Stories'
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where I was in the top tier track, but nowhere near the smartest kid in the room at any given time
This was high school for me. Junior high, I was either 3rd or 4th in my 250-person class, depending on the day, but in high school, I got nipped out of being in the top 10 percent in a class of just over 100 girls.
My sisters taught me to read when we played school so I went into kindergarten reading but I don't remember showing off in class. I know that getting pulled out of regular classes to go to gifted ones made me a target. I do not have fond memories of school.
Is reading in the bathroom normal, or is it just my family?
I used to read in the bathroom a lot. I think it's fairly normal. There are even bathroom books!
In late elementary school, they started giving pretests for each math section, and if you aced the pretest, you didn't have to do the homework and take the test for that section. I think. I just remember acing a lot of pretests. I think.
My fervent hope is that one day I will learn this and not NEED to be the one who always has The Right Answer.
I think "power" might be the wrong word? What do you think? Maybe "grace" is more accurate? In any case, it's definitely something I still work on, depending on the context.
It is so hard. When I am tired, it is almost impossible. The thing is, I do tend to have the right answer even if I am just noodling through and thinking of a likely answer.
Who else got the "You think you're so smart, stop trying to show off" thing?
I didn't have that, but I found out in high school that a boy who had been at my elementary school had thought I was dumb back then because I was always so quiet, until we took a test and I finished way before anyone else. He switched his opinion at that point to "fast dumb girl".
Not that I had any idea at the time, I was oblivious to other people's opinions of me.
I still do this.
There are many words that I'd use in writing that I wouldn't say in conversation because I'm not sure about the pronunciation. Many.
Is reading in the bathroom normal, or is it just my family?
If you don't read in the bathroom, what else do you do? Stare into space? (I admit, I don't take a book into the bathroom at work. I play Sudoku on my phone.)
If you don't read in the bathroom, what else do you do? Stare into space?
Pet my cat.
The advantage of living alone - I can always leave the bathroom door open.
Who else got the "You think you're so smart, stop trying to show off" thing?
Me, too. Mostly it was a 5 second thing accompanied by rolling eyes, but one teacher spent about 10 minutes bitching me out (in front of the class, of course) about how I was just doing it to make everyone else feel bad.
On the upside, my arm got quite the rest in her class for the rest of the year.
If I'm not working puzzles in the bathroom I'm reading. it's impossible for me to just sit there.
The more confidence I've gained in life, the less I ever feel the need to show off. Also, I hang out with people (you guys included) who are brilliant about a large variety of things. Helps keep me britches on straight.