Leanne Maskell struggled in class. Absorbing information, listening, and sitting quietly for extended periods was hard. But when exam season came around, she sailed through with straight As. Educators didn’t know what to think – one college economics teacher asked her classmates how she’d managed to cheat so convincingly.
“Everyone was really shocked at my grades. They were like ‘oh we thought you were stupid’,” she says. “The fact was, I was able to just prepare the month before by hyper-focusing and teaching myself what I needed to know.”
