KatieWilson12 we all do this. Have you thought about reaching out to any of them now? I have done that years later. I caught back up with many from elementary school after I had graduated high school almost 20 years ago. You can start when you decide to do it.

I still had seizures, but I could think and focus.

My school was pretty normal for me. I was good at Math and English in High School. I was an editor of the Newspaper staff in High School. I was also in the symphonic band as well an an officer in ROTC in high School. But, I had to drop out of college because of my seizures, but did get certificates in computer classes. I graduated from High School 35 years ago and still talk to a lot of my old friends from High School!

Thanks to you all!

I had trouble with school so I picked one subject to study harder than the rest. I decided math was most important because it appeared to be a part of everything going on. Also you pretty much use the same part of your mind over and over. I did enough math problems to store the answers in my long-term memory which wasn't a problem. I could add, subtract, multiply and divide in my head.

I never got a college degree but I was smart enough with numbers to accomplish things like becoming the first person to finish an 80 and 90-question math test in less than ten minutes at two banks where I worked. It helped me get a job with the government for 31 years.

I often got challenged by my epileptologist to do square roots but they weren't perfect squares. Like after my temporal lobectomy, he asked me what the square root of 7450 was. I wondered why he did this until 20 years after my surgery I figured it out. My math ability and surgery were on the left side of my brain. I had square roots memorized and they were stored in the right side of my brain. He wanted to be sure the part of my brain that calculated things was always working.