It is the start of fifth grade. I have been doing good in math, science, and history. But, reading... has gotten so much worse. I can no longer remember what I was reading. I can no longer understand what I'm reading. I don't really know why.
I told my mom about it and she said that if I was passing the class then I would be fine. But I wasn't passing the class. I was getting D's and F's. I couldn't even get a C. I never told my mom because I was scared I'd get into trouble.
One day, my mom got a call. It was my reading teacher. She hung up on my teacher after he told her my grades. She had a very angry look on her face. She asked me why my grades were so bad. I told her that I don't understand anything we were learning.
She then decided to get me tested to see what was wrong. I went to the phycologist and he had me to read a short story. He asked me questions about the story. I didn't know any of the answers. I had to do more testing. The testing lasted three weeks.
The last day of testing my mom came in the room with me. The phycologist told her that I have a reading disability, a learning disability, and a processing disability.
He then wrote...
Reading Disability- You can't remember what you read.
Learning Disability- Need to learn it more than once and learn it in different ways.
Processing Disability- You can't understand most things.
He said that it could never go away. That I would have them forever. That one little piece of paper changed my life forever...
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Why I Did It
RandomSam is the kind of girl you find in the back if the classroom. The one who never talks, but when she does, you can't believe the things she says. Apparently, she has been through a lot.
