My parents say that the key to learning is to listen and pay attention, but what if you are not able to pay attention. I started learning English at around the age of 6, but before that I started off learning Thai. Speaking was never something I struggled with, the only struggles I had were reading and writing. With more than 43 alphabets and 21 distinct consonant sounds, it was extremely difficult for me to learn, not to mention how small the alphabets are. Learning in my first language was already difficult but since I had problems concentrating, it was even harder. In my case, paying attention was nowhere close to something I could do back when I was younger but later on I was able to solve it through years of self control.
When my parents would come pick me up after school everyday, they would always come talk to the teachers. Teachers would always tell my parents that I would always have to make them repeat after they teach, which happened consistently. Not that I didn’t understand, but I could never listen. My mom thought that it wasn’t a concentration problem and more of a learning problem when made her send me to a cram school (KUMON). Since it wasn’t a learning problem, this made it slightly worse. I would always wait for the session to end and since the works are self graded, I would always rush to finish my work and grade all of them slowly to kill time; not to mention that I would always give myself hundreds. The cram school had no effect on me which made my parents send me to a Psychologist. According to the Psychologist, I had a minor case of ADD(attention deficit disorder). Even though it was minor, she insisted that I should take medication which I did. After three years of going through the side effects of the medication which mainly lack of appetite and moodiness, my parents and I decided it wasn’t worth it and decided to do the “natural” way which is just through human instincts.
Throughout the medication phases, my parents would put arrow stickers on my table so I wouldn’t would look back up to the board when I get sidetracked or when I start fiddling my my fingers or my stationaries. Sometimes they would also tell me about how important mind mapping what you’ve learnt or writing notes down is but due to my spoilt nature, I never do it since it requires a significant amount of effort. After three years of medication, I had to concentrate by myself. I didn’t realise how important concentrating and listening during class was until a last which was what my parents meant my “human instincts”. Which I thought was a good way of me learning, they thought that it would come to me one day that, my grade are horrible and the reason for that is that I don’t listen or concentrate during classes.
Humans are animals, just like animals we have instincts, although we don’t feel it. My grades dropped significantly because of my concentrating issues which I didn’t realise until my Sophomore year during one Literature class. Comparing my grades from my first semester and my second semester I saw a big gap which proved my parents perfectly correct. Even as of now, I am still having issues concentrating in specific classes, I can tell the differences between this year’s grades and my last years. There was a huge development and I am grateful for the fact that I have realised this now and not in my college years even though I had to sacrifice a lot of grades.
When my parents would come pick me up after school everyday, they would always come talk to the teachers. Teachers would always tell my parents that I would always have to make them repeat after they teach, which happened consistently. Not that I didn’t understand, but I could never listen. My mom thought that it wasn’t a concentration problem and more of a learning problem when made her send me to a cram school (KUMON). Since it wasn’t a learning problem, this made it slightly worse. I would always wait for the session to end and since the works are self graded, I would always rush to finish my work and grade all of them slowly to kill time; not to mention that I would always give myself hundreds. The cram school had no effect on me which made my parents send me to a Psychologist. According to the Psychologist, I had a minor case of ADD(attention deficit disorder). Even though it was minor, she insisted that I should take medication which I did. After three years of going through the side effects of the medication which mainly lack of appetite and moodiness, my parents and I decided it wasn’t worth it and decided to do the “natural” way which is just through human instincts.
Throughout the medication phases, my parents would put arrow stickers on my table so I wouldn’t would look back up to the board when I get sidetracked or when I start fiddling my my fingers or my stationaries. Sometimes they would also tell me about how important mind mapping what you’ve learnt or writing notes down is but due to my spoilt nature, I never do it since it requires a significant amount of effort. After three years of medication, I had to concentrate by myself. I didn’t realise how important concentrating and listening during class was until a last which was what my parents meant my “human instincts”. Which I thought was a good way of me learning, they thought that it would come to me one day that, my grade are horrible and the reason for that is that I don’t listen or concentrate during classes.
Humans are animals, just like animals we have instincts, although we don’t feel it. My grades dropped significantly because of my concentrating issues which I didn’t realise until my Sophomore year during one Literature class. Comparing my grades from my first semester and my second semester I saw a big gap which proved my parents perfectly correct. Even as of now, I am still having issues concentrating in specific classes, I can tell the differences between this year’s grades and my last years. There was a huge development and I am grateful for the fact that I have realised this now and not in my college years even though I had to sacrifice a lot of grades.