How do you know if you are slightly retarded or just have a learning disorder? -
01-11-2009, 12:25 AM
PLEASE READ THIS TO BETTER ANSWER ME: All my life I have had excellent communication and writing skills. A teacher once said I wrote like a thirty yr old in a teenager's body. I have won scholarships on my acting ability since acting is my passion and have always been told I am a terrific actress. BUT, when I am at my real-world jobs (that are just to pay the bills) I always end up giving people the idea I am slow, dinky, or stupid. I sometimes stutter, get nervous a lot, or just don't say clever things. I don't always grasp directions and have to ask for them to repeat them, and people roll thier eyes. I mess up my vocab too when I talk too fast. I'll stumble over my words and it just sounds so dumb and people laugh. I do too though because I KNOW what I meant to say, but it just comes out wrong. Someone once said I even am like Phoebe from"FRIENDS". They said I have a little slowness when it comes to commone sense. But I do not feel dumb, only different.For example, today I said to someone asked if there was a box office near our building. I said I did not know of one, and then my co-workers started chuckling and told me"Uh, like there is only one around the corner that's been sitting there since like 1960."And then I remembered suddenly that there was one near. BUT at the time I was busy, so I just did not think about it. DO you see what I mean? I def think I take a moment to get things sometimes, or grasp an idea, but yet I am soo talented in the performing arts, am learning 2 languages successfully, and am a lead in a play. WHAT DO I DO?? I just want to fit in and be liked at work. I am sorry that I do not act and think like everyone else. But I don't feel stupid. I just feel like I am not a good multi-tasker, so when people are talking to me rapidly and there are tasks I am trying to complete all at the same time, I end up jumbling my words or just not making sense. I get so nervous at jobs like that. WHAT DO I DO???
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