#puppygirl that do this?
@deumi i was always the person that was told that I'm really smart but got horrible grades all throughout school because i couldn't keep up with the work due to my inability to half ass my way through the boring and meaningless assignments like everybody else. through early education i pretty much didn't do anything because none of the work was interesting, and therefore mentally stimulating to my adhd brain. upon getting into high school, i put 100% into the assignments that allowed me to intellectually stimulate myself, and put no effort whatsoever into everything that didn't. over years and years of this i grew an immense sense of internalized shame due to my total inability to excel within the rigid standard of success present in academics despite my demonstrably above average ability in most of my subjects. i viewed myself as a failure, and pretending to be a dog allowed me to both distract myself from that chronic internalized shame by turning my brain off for a bit, and feel like less of a fuckup by submitting to an authority figure that loves and cares about me, as i was unable to do throughout my childhood.
so anyways, woof woof:3
