All throughout middle school and then, my senior year in high school, that’s when classes started moving to like the beginning of August and of course, you know, being a kid, you’re like, “What the heck, man? Like I don’t want to be in school right now.” I mean, my parents — I was in the unfortunate situation where you know fortunately both of my parents worked and made their own money and living but unfortunately that meant as a kid, my parents always put me in a summer camp. Which again, I’m neurodivergent, a lot of the times I would be in the summer camp and I would go up to the teachers and be like, “Hey,” you know, like imagine an eight year old little me walking up to a teacher and being like, “Hey, I don’t feel like socializing. I don’t feel like talking to these kids. Do you mind?”
Um, like literally I remember one summer before middle school, I hated the program, like the summer school or not the summer school because it wasn’t summer school. It was just like a summer like daycare, after school type thing but they offered like summer hours. And I just remember I hated going to that so much, to the point where I asked my teacher — I went to my teacher first and then I went to my parents. Well, I went to my mom first, I was like, “Can I do summer school?” And of course, my mom was like, “Ah, I mean, well, we’ll talk to your teacher and see about it.”
Of course, you know, my teacher’s first reaction was, “Why does she want to be in summer school? She doesn’t need summer school.” And my mom — you know, very unfortunately I think for a lot of us neurotypical women — neurodivergent women is that, a lot of us were not diagnosed as kids but you have the “Hindsight is 20-20” moment where you’re looking back at it and your parents are looking back at it and you were like, “You know, you asking to go to summer school — is weird. Like most kids do not want to be spending their summer in school and learning any more than they have to, but you do.”