My name is Rosetta Delanette. I am 15 years old, and I have OCD, ADHD, and dyslexia. It’s hard for a girl like me – always getting teased for not being able to read correctly, having to organize things, and getting easily distracted. I think it’s kind of funny when people tell me to just ‘ignore the taunting’, which I can’t. Quite literally. Whenever someone calls my name or talks about or to me, my mind goes blank.
Blank to everything except what they’re talking about.
Blank to common sense.
Blank to fear. I am known for getting into fights with anyone and everyone who mocks me, and that’s a lot of people. Being one of the taller kids of the 10th grade, I have intimidated many people who got in my way; because of this, I have a general reputation for being the big, brunette bully.
Before I get off track writing this, (thanks to……. Mental chaos) I should tell you what I’m writing about, and where I’m writing from.
To answer that, I tell you, “a library”. Yes, I am in a library. Alone. Alone in a library, I suppose. But, I will neither be in this library, or alone for much longer. Somehow-familiar strangers will join me, yet I will already know them, and they don’t know how not to know me.
It’s a long story.
Actually, more than one story – many books added up together to make one big…. thing…… so, therefore, I will say:
It’s a lot of books.
Got it? Hope so, because I worked hard not to let my ADHD confuse me. Sadly, there’s no one here for me to tell that I just accomplished writing a few decent paragraphs in a solid period of time, and when I next meet people, they won’t know me as Rosetta. As I said previously: it’s a lot of books – quite literally. (You’ll find out soon. I hope.)
Now, my OCD is killing me. I have been staring at a bookshelf that –thanks to my farsighted vision – I can see a book is misshelved. BRB. Actually, I might not. This could take a while…….
