Academic Success

I have always struggled in school. I also have always have been told i have a high potential. (i really hope that's true) Part of the problem is my Learning Disibilities. I have 3 of them: ADD/ADHD, Reading LD, and Written Expression LD My ADD makes it very hard for me to stay focused on things that arn't interesting to me. I just can't control my attention as easily as other people can, becuase i'm not blessed with the necessary cognative faculties to do so. But that's ok with me. I just have to work around it. Plus, I've come up with some of my best ideas and questions becuase of my wandering mind. My reading LD means it's very hard for me to absorb information through reading. I can comprehend what is written no problem, but reading is a very slow and arguous process. I'm much quicker when I hear or see it, which is why i love audiobooks, movies, and presentations. I learn best through listening and talking, and through teaching. This makes me a misfit for our educational system where class doesn't have time for any real deep discussion between student and teacher. Time and time again i've wanted to raise my hand and challenge my teachers or at least stear the course of the class in some way, but couldn't. We'd "run out of time". My written LD means I have chronic messy handwriting, and some problems with expressing ideas in writing espically when using pencil. It also means i'll always have trouble spelling. So i'm at a disadvantage when taking written examinations, and it's kind of hard to take notes in class. So these three things lie in the way of my goal of acidemic succes. But what's in my favor is my unrelenting curiosity about life, my ability to hyperfocus on things i'm interested in, my intelligence, and my understanding of myself, how I learn best, and what works for me. That, a little disipline, and an enormous amount of effort, will help me succeed in this goal. I just hope earnestly that this education (schooling) will bring me closer to what i'm looking for in life, because it's a very hard system of learning for me to succeed in. With that said, i should say that i'm a firm believer in autodidacticism.