My Multiple Struggles

In my life I had multiple struggles, but I always had a problem focusing. This all started when I was around 8 years old. It was a sunny day around May in a class full of 30 different kids watching Bill Nye the Science Guy. As I was watching the video I kept getting distracted. Everything was getting boring I kept spacing out. I was sitting on an uncomfortable metal chair. I remember having a hard time focusing in class I couldn’t seem to get anything done after the video even though my teacher had told me to focus and get some work done. I just never looked at it like it was a problem I always thought it was normal there were be time where my teacher would explain what the project and I would listen and get nothing from what she says and she will get irritated from

I would get nothing done, but I knew what I was doing. I just wasn’t motivated to get the work done. I would space out or get bored and not have enough energy to get the work done. One day I was in class sitting on a metal chair taking the MSP test. My teacher thought that it would help if she let me chew on gum while I take the test. I couldn’t get the work done. I was somewhere else, I was thinking about lunch or going to the playground. Back then I was not just focused and I was also getting in trouble every time for it. Usually in class,
I would talk when it gets boring to one of my friends, Elman. Elman and I were also on the same page about getting bored in class. I did not have control of this problem when it came to focusing in class. This was happening at home too when my mom would call me and talk to me for a good 5 minutes and instead of listening, I was thinking about what to do the next day. I feel like my mom knew something that this was an issue, because she would talk to me until I listened, making sure that I got the whole conversation. Maybe I spaced out because I could not hear well in my right ear, or maybe it’s because I have