I can’t pause it, it’s multiplayer!
-or-
If you pick up the phone, I have to start downloading this MP3 I’ve been trying to get for half an hour all over again!
I couldn’t manage to convince my parents that I had piss poor vision until I was 8 years old. When I finally managed to get them to take me to the eye doctor and get prescription glasses, my mom apologized to me repeatedly for like 2 weeks.
In my head:
You: “Mom! Everything looks bad!”
Mom: “I know sweetheart, but even though everything seems hopeless we have to focus on the positive things…”“I mean everything is blurry!” “The future often is”
I never even knew that I actually had bad vision until that first prescription at age age 8. If you’ve never seen clearly before, you don’t even realize your vision is blurry to even tell anyone.
But you’d figure that they might have started getting a clue years earlier when I got lost in my own room, couldn’t see the chalkboard in class, and had to sit super close to the TV…
My dad would get mad at me for sitting too close to the tv or for not recognizing people. They never thought to have my eyes checked until my Kindergarten teacher had the school test my eye sight
In 2nd grade at age 7, they tested us with the basic eye test chart. When they asked me to read the first letter from the chart, I asked “What chart?”
I literally couldn’t even read the huge E on the top of the chart. It was just a huge blurry white rectangle on the door to me.
I got in trouble for ‘acting out and refusing to take the test’ or some shit like that. Ain’t that about fucked up?
I really needed to be left alone after school because I am deeply introverted, and spending eight hours with all those people was so draining, even though I usually managed to not actually talk to anyone most days.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like my parents. I didn’t have any battery left and I didn’t know how to communicate that.
That I have ADHD and was not extremely lazy and difficult.
For me it was “i’m ASD and not deliberately being a little shit”
Found out much later there were suspicions, but it was easier to assume i was doing it deliberately. Yeah, we don’t talk any more.
Freddie Mercury.
