I’ve never been as fast as the other kids. Always at least two entire grade levels behind everyone else from kindergarten to 8th grade. The teachers tried to help me, in elementary school they pushed me in hopes of making me an average student. Resource classes every day, taking me out of other not so needed classes, one of the classes being typing. Now as a high school student, being that girl who’s slow at typing and always has to look at her hands. Middle school came around and I was terrified of what people would think if they knew that I was in the read 180 class with kids who couldn’t read as well. The other kids would laugh and point, or so I thought, so I didn’t tell them. 8th grade year, my first year of being in the right reading
