What it feels like to be underestimated your whole life

All too often people do not look further than their perception of a person. I think this is wrong!

It can actually inhibit a person's life or being.

People thought I was stupid and put me in a school for 'special' children even though I was perfectly capable of, well... proper thought. Do I strike you as someone who is unable to think or form opinions? I think not!

This has seriously held me back for years! I had a low form of education, even though I can handle college at least without a problem. It also lowered my self-eSTEEM (sorry) to the point that I believed I could not achieve anything. Even though I am capable of so much!

I was lucky enough to meet someone who showed me that I have worth, that I can achieve things, that I am smart! If I hadn't met her, I would never have believed in myself.

Now I am doing an education between simple high-school and college (I don't know the English equivalent) and it is in fact way too easy. Something that nobody believed I could even do has proven to be way too easy for me!

Why didn't they believe in me? I do not know, perhaps it's because they made me do an IQ test after I had a brain herphormage, or perhaps it's because they put me in the same basket as the 'special' children; I just cannot say.

If possible, I plan to follow a form of higher education someday, to be able to mend the damage done, but not everyone has met someone to show them they ARE worth something.

Please, do not underestimate your students, children or whomever is the victim of this.

Thanks for reading!