Yikes, I just typed out a post and it never went through, fooking dial up.

Yes, stay in school and try harder, good job, Lily. Do your best and don't compare yourself to the so called "smart kids". Have you ever been tested for any learning disabilities or ADD? Sometimes things like that go undectected for a long time, especially if you attend a big school.

When I was little I had a speech impediment and a reading problem. Whenever I got called on to read I would just freak out and start bawling (I was quite popular, as you can imagine ). In first grade, they figured out I was not a complete spazz, but, I had learning disabilities. By third grade I was in regular reading classes and my speech impediment was gone. Even now my spelling is sometimes atrocious, but, I can speak normally....in fact, I talk too much.

If my problems weren't addressed when they were, who knows what might have happened. I have a friend whose learning disabilities weren't found out until she was in college, she spent all of high school just thinking she was dumb.