[RKDinOKC]

Was in the special ed class in 2nd grade for almost a whole day before they decided to put me back in regular class. Today they would probably say I had ADHD. Just didn't read their books and stuff unless I found it interesting. Got A's but when the teacher asked me to read out loud I made up my own stories to go with the pictures. They decided I only read for information.

The first book the teacher made me read from the school library was "Where the Red Fern Grows." Absolutely HATED it because the dogs got ripped up and killed by a mountain lion and took almost a whole chapter to die. As bad a Old Yeller, which gratefully my parents kept me from watching. The thing that got me it recreational reading was a friend of my Dad's at work gave their boy's (then outgrown) huge Hardy Boys mysteries collection. Really liked those.