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Finally, I'm posting a problem I have!

Here's the deal.
I have a social studies teacher named Ms. O'Connor who has ADHD. (remember that.) She had my sister two years ago and positively LOVED her. And at "first sight," she seemed so nice. But then she started getting angry and frustrated at kids and rather agressive, although not physically. I never thought it would affect me, though... but since kids think I'm a "genius" and stuff, but only because they're not very smart, they ALWAYS ask me, "Hye-Jung, what'd you get?" or "Hye-Jung, *tugs coat* will you help me?" or *poke poke poke poke poke poke poke*.. me: "Argh what?" "I don't get this, help me!" And since I have a problem with not being able to ignore people, I always help them. So one day, I was helping this annoying poking girl sitting next to me, and guess what Ms. O'Connor said to me in front of the whole class?

"Hye-Jung, work on this on your own! You won't have partners your entire life, so you should learn to do things by yourself!"

And she kept on lecturing me about it. I turned sort of reddish, like a whitish red radish, so it seemed like I was guilty of the crime. But I blew it off. But today, I was walking through the hallways with my books after fourth period, ready to go to teamtime (study hall) and saw my friend Lucy asking me to help her with her balloons, her social studies project. I went in and started to help her break the string on the balloons. Ms. O'Connor starting announcing, "All right everybody, get your books!" over and over and over again, and got STEAMING mad and aggressively scary to people who didn't get their books. Suddenly, I realized that this was my teamtime class for today. I explained to Ms. O'Connor that I had to help Lucy with her balloons and didn't get my books, so she was like, "Alright! Go! Hurry! Lord..." so I sped to my locker to get my books. After I came in, she closed the door. When I was halfway to my seat, she said, "WHO JUST CAME IN THE DOOR?????????" I said, "Me," meekly. SHE POSITIVELY STARTED YELLING AT ME!!!!!!!!!!! I was so scared! And I was trying to get a word in, but she wouldn't let me. She finally blew it off with a, "Don't EVER do it again!!!!!!!!!!!" She was........ | | this close to saying, "&^*$%#@!” I was really frustrated. I wanted to be a great student, since she loved my sister so much, and because I know she's really kind inside (she's old too...). Whenever I spoke to her later that day, she would act all huffy to me. And I've never done anything bad! I do perfect work, participate a lot, and am very polite. But now she hates me! I told my mom about it and she got angry at me for not being able to ignore people's pokes and repetitive requests, and being such a pushover. I know I am!!!! But I can't change. With our school and people, if you just say, "No." to someone who asks you for help, they say, "Oh my gowddd. You're so mean." And if you do one smart thing, you're forever a genius in their eyes and they always ask you for help. My mom also told me that ADHD makes you hyper, and doesn't let you control your feelings of frustration or anger, but Ms. O'Connor is just really scary sometimes. I'm POSITIVE she despises me. Other people get bad grades, don't participate, and don't help others, yet she loves them. It's rather frustrating, to put it mildly. I just don't understand why it won't work out.


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