Before I was dignosed with NVLD and moved to a crap Nieghborhood with terrible nieghbors . I was pretty much seen as the vulnerbale one and it gave nasty kid's a good reason to beat the crap out of me. I had the two worst nieghbors they would do some terrible things to me when I look back it gives me the creeps. They once tied me up in a chair put ductape on my mouth and on my legs and locked me in a closest for 9 hours. Now lets get one with the NVLD story.


I was recently dignosed with NVLD about year ago by a good high school psycholgist. After all years of being clueless I finall knew what has been giving me so much trouble all of these years. Then I also came to the relization that having this NVLD syndrom blows and looking years back I had it pretty bad specialy in school. Before I moved to a better school district I was stuck in a crumy school with teachers who didnt give two Sh*** about me. My worst exprinces were kindergarden and first grade. In kindergarden I never did my work so my teachers found what ever was necsary to get me in trouble I cant count the number of times I went to princeple's office. First Grade was even worse no one wanted to be my friend my teacher hated me so much this is not over exaderated, she reccomended me for a school that was normal but had a good special ed program where I didnt belong . When I got there I liked it alot better then my other school my first teacher I had was Mrs. Flynn she was young beutiful and caring. The kids on the other hand were just terrible I had no other choice to be their friends and because I was in the group of special ed kids. I was considred and outcast an often made fun and beaten up by normal ed kids. I had Mrs. Flynn from 2nd to 3rd grade then I was stuck with the the teacher form hell in fourth grade. To tell you the truth my year of fourth grade had to be my worst year in my whole life. This teacher put me down all the time and my life took a misberable turn. My mom told me why she put me down all the time it was something she said to the teacher im not sure. One time this teacher really gave it to me one day calling stupid and I would never suceed in life. The schools were bad the neighborhood was getting stranger by the day.Next to that I got bitten by my nieghbor's pitbull and never stepped outside ever again. So my dad got a better job and we managed to move to a nicer town.

When I got to this new town I was shocked on how nice it was but it was hard being the new kid. After kids got to know me they found me strange because of the enviroment I was used to before and once again I was made fun of. I was getting to the point when I was sick of being made fun of so I decided to start wrestling. When I first wrestled in 7th grade I struggled up ty my junior year of high school I didnt win once match at all and it feels terrible . Next to that im suffering from depression my grades are low I feel like a nobody and im considering a Job in the military doubt I can make it with my current situation :( Im just stuck so stuck.

Keep your grades up and do well academically. Set your mind on college if it is possible for you. I think you will find thta you will be treated better in an academic environment.

I do not have NVLD, but I do have ADHD. My experiences in grade school and high school were not very good. But once I got up the nerve to go to college I found the environment to be nice and I did well there.

ME :D

I went a little far on that post I was angry

I don't have NVLD but I have things that made me the target of bullying and I DO understnad your anger and sadness...I've been there!!

Hey Sanders,

I know what youre saying. I have ADD (diagnosed 2 yrs ago?) and a bunch of other stuff which just got diagnosed 2 months ago... I havne't really written it on these forums yet, but I just found out I've got reading & math disabilities, specific problems with sequencing, and to top it all off... "slow processing". lol - sounds like i'm a retard to me! I mean, most of that stuff I already sort of knew even before the diagnosis, but having the doctor put it in those words is kind of wierd. Anyways, I jsut want to tell you you're not the only one having problems. :)

I was always the weird kid in school too, I was really shy and really stuck in my own ideas of the way things should be (everything from what I liked to wear to how I played games) I had probably the worst fashion sense of any middle schooler on the planet. I didn't fall into a single "group" of kids, not even the "rejects". I knew I didn't fit in and was super self-concious about it, but I didn't want to change or even know how to change. Looking back, I'm glad I was my own person, but at the time it was about the LAST thing I wanted.

I've had a couple bully's, but most of the intimidation I felt was actually self-generated. I THOUGHT everyone else didn't like me, but looking back I don't think most of them even cared at all. I've grown out of all of that since then, though, and now I've got a lot of friends who like me for my weirdness. On top of all the social stuff, I had a loooong struggle through school, but I'm graduating college in a month! I did all that without even knowing I had ADD or LDs - instead I just compensated like mad with hard work and a lot of help from people.

My biggest piece of advice to you is don't be afraid to ask for help. Go for the things you want to do - just jump right in there and try it out. From what you describe, I don't think my situation was even 1/10th as bad as yours - I had some bad teachers (and some who made fun of me) but my family dind't move at all and I never had to go to special ed. My parents worked really hard with me after school, and I'm not sure I even would've graduated high school without them. But just becuase you've had it hard doesn't give you an excuse to give up! You've got a brain that's worth using. Also, don't forget: having a learning disability doesn't mean you can't understand stuff, it just means it's harder to get it into your head in the first place. Once you've got it in there, you'll be fine.

If you've still got time left, put your best into your grades, and if they improve significantly (even if it's only in your last semester!), then most schools will take that into account. Schools aren't really looking for blemishes on your record - they're looking for proof that you can handle thier environment. So if you can tell them why you've had trouble in the past and show that you've been able to turn it around (and THEN say why you'll be able to keep it turned around once you're there) then I think a lot of schools would let you at least try it out. I would, at least, if I were a college.

Even if that's all already in the long and distant past, that still doens't mean it's too late. There are always community colleges where you can proove that you've figured out how to study. Or you could always do somthing crazy - find somthing you love and open up your own place to do that. Don't EVER let anybody tell you it's too late or that you can't do somthing you want to do.