I made sure it never happened again. Never got in trouble for playing in class, though I was always bored.

I entertained myself differently and guess who had an unlimited stock of rubber bands at her parents office. Guess the rest 🎯🙃

I had no interest in the girls playground clapping 👏🏽 games.

Strangely, I had never been kicked out of school or redid a class, or caused drama to my parents either.

I was a smooth 😎 criminal🕴🏽.

After the first time, my mum got called at my nursery school for pulling a kids chair 🫠 when we did the incessant "Good Morning Madams" for every teacher 🤣😂
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Guess who put it on the back burner because, as Colombo, I've been adapting and focusing on my strengths and always made it forward.

But here, none of my usual tricks work like listening in lectures, explaining hard concepts to mates cause I could grab it fast, + doing most things last minute.

There was a but, I consistently had mental distress and as stubborn I am, I kept pushing to finish my research and kept being ill.

My supervisor got me to speak to an Ed Psych.

That's the 1st time it was confirmed that I'm dyslexic. Kinda always suspected my 🧠but didn't know what it really was.

At this point in my life, I'm having questions about what happened to me during my last project.

I had always figured it out academically, but here I felt like i had a fried brain somehow. 😅

Anything technical was my focus, all the literature...a battle. No 💃🏾

Working on BME🦿Rehabilitation but..

Too familiar to be ignored. Too peculiar not to have an explanation.

So I had to look for what I ♀️ have in common with a total stranger ♂️ I've never met to have similar social behaviours.

Well, the only answer was the brain 🧠. Something most likely to be a natural behavioural pattern...

Fractals

While life happens, I know I had a #1 prayer 🙏🏽.

Why am I here? ...🪽

Long story short, Colombo is activated by this pattern ♾️.

Ref: I'll refer to myself as Colombo 🕵🏾‍♀️. Let's say it's a code name to stay consistent as I walk you through my journey.

Q: Why? What about this pattern is so familiar? 🤔

At this point in my life as a single Millennial lady, trying to create a new work life balance as I recover from what I thought was my biggest failed personal project. 🤭

[Boy sober as my friend told me. 😅 That's not hard, I've been sober. Pun intended. 🤣]

I can't kick this observed pattern off.

Obviously on the other hand academically I was great in science and "carried last" in literary subjects throughout. Some how I always made it through to the next class despite being bored to death and always sleeping through classes I didn't understand.
Always daydreaming-Academic comments.👀
#NNBI

17 year old me Social Prefect. That discreet "Socio!". The flashbacks. 🤯

Running the show in high school as the prefect incharge of entertainment. Organising, planning, scheduling, creating, innovating. I just never cared to be louder or seen and made sure the show ran well even with other schools.