Chin up! you can do this! part 3

September 10th, 2009
One more thing to give you confidence. When I was in K …I COULD NOT learn my ABC’s. ALL the other kids could say them. My teacher kept me in at recess to try to help. She pinned a note to my shirt telling my mom to work with me. I could recite poems and the pledge…I COULD READ, but could not name those darn letters in order. Things that are random are hard for me. I need things to make sense. Those names in that ABC order had no REASON to be in that order. It is random. To this day I have a HARD time learning a phone # because it is a random pattern.
I have written a book, but was a kid who could not learn her ABC’s. I turned out all right. To this day my mom says it was just silly the trouble I had. SHE remembers because my older brothers learned it so quickly and it made all the teachers and her friends think I was stupid! Now she knows I was the smartest kid she had. LOL!! Hugs, Barbara