I know exactly how you felt. I was diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, and tourettes quite young, my mother and father separated when I was very young, and my mother had

I know exactly how you felt. I was diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, and tourettes quite young, my mother and father separated when I was very young, and my mother had the habit of moving to a new town every 2 years. All of this lead to a less-than-stellar experience in school. I eventually made it onto the short-bus. As you were ridiculed as an individual in class, I was ridiculed by group association. I don't know if my "IQ" was up there , but I was the kid making web-pages while my class-mates were doing the word-processing class. Obviously this meant I'd get terrible marks in class as I'd never get around to doing the work but that's the over-reaching theme of my experience in high-school. So. Bored. Every. Day. Except I didn't listen. Nope. When I was interested in something you could bet I'd be in the top-of-the class. If I wasn't, I'd probably not even finish it. Unlike you, who got though it, between my home life and everything else I didn't even finish. I dropped out in grade 10. However I never really did have trouble focusing. I focused on what was important to me and now I'm in a place in my life where I'm happy and working in a skilled, knowledge-based career making great money for my age and I'm doing the things I've always wanted to.