Fixing my mistake at school

I think that for the most part, I function fairly well, but there are times when I know that my brain doesn’t function right.

Friday, while I was working at school, the kindergarten teacher asked me to do something for her. I was asked to glue student’s names on a flat foil pretend chocolate kiss for the bulletin board. As I was gluing the names on the kiss and even when I was finished, I kept thinking that the kisses weren’t shaped right. Then I realized that it was me! I didn’t make sure that the kisses had the point at the top while I was gluing the names on. I quickly unglued the names, fixed the kiss so that it had the point on the top, then glued the names back on.

I know that this was not a big deal, but a mistake that I’m so glad that I was able to find and fix before the teacher saw it. This is a kindergarten class that I work in each day. The teacher is a long-term sub, covering for the classroom teacher because she had surgery. She doesn’t know about my diagnosis.

If I hadn’t been able to fix this before she saw it, I would have felt very stupid. I think that before being diagnosed with a memory impairment, this probably would not have been a problem for me. This would have been pretty simple to do, without much thought to it.

I think that the next time that I have a task to do, I need to think it through, then complete it. Perhaps that will help me be more successful. I’m pretty sure that the average person would have been able to do this without any problems.