Hi Amanda1 - Welcome!
I was always pretty sure that there was something wrong with me because stuff that was hard for most of my classmates was super-easy for me, and stuff that was easy for my classmates was super-hard for me.
Spelling just doesn't seem to stick in my head at all, and my handwriting was very babyish for many many years.
Like you, I seemed to absorb things if I 'tuned in' to them during class.
It wasn't until my son was identified as 'more than usually gifted' and I started learning how many myths of gifted kids I had floating around in my head that I realized that I too was gifted.
Watching my son and his friends grow up, I think that a child who has to study 30 minutes in 3rd grade every day after school has a tremendous advantage over someone like me who 'picked things up quickly and effortlessly' in elementary school in getting used to working hard in order to learn. Almost everyone I know who has achieved much as an adult has had to learn 'work ethic' at somepoint in their journey.
What I love is that work ethic can be learned at any age! Finding a subject that you just love can make the lessons much less painful. So, if you are asking for advice, I would ask you what you really love to do and learn about, and advise you to keep looking until you find something.
So, don't keep us in suspense, you graduated High School, then what?
I love to know,
Grinity
