This Is Where the Kids Who Never Had a Pencil at School Ended Up

Here’s another person who found that her tendency to forget office supplies and show up unprepared to school was not just because she wasn’t trying hard enough—it’s because she was on the autism spectrum, and once she had been diagnosed and gotten on medication for her attention problems, she started doing really well!

She also is proof of what we’ve been talking about, that using technology to your advantage can be useful if you have a tendency to forget things. After all, we’re all so glued to our phones these days that I bet you’re way less likely to forget your phone when you walk out the door in the morning than you are to forget a pen and paper.