Personal; French And Maths Well, I can't do them. I don't think any of my teachers understand that. I can't get my head around the horror that is French or Maths. I don't understand how to put the numbers in order, or if its 'le' or 'la'. Masculine or feminine? What's the square root of 81? Wasn't I meant to learn that a few years ago? Well, I didn't. I wasn't taught anything until the start of last year. My teachers were terrible; my French is still only rudimentary and I have to count on my fingers to understand anything. Yet, I am the only person in my school with an A+ in English, and I finished my Religious Ed a whole year early. I'm not stupid, please don't call me stupid. I can't deal with being called stupid because it's a lie. I'm begging my brain to work, to understand them. But I can't. I can't understand them because I wasn't ever taught the basics. I don't have a foundation. I'm diving in the deep end with someone only pointing at an Olympic athlete and saying "Do it like that." I'm choking on carbon monoxide in a burning building with no exits. I'm on a speeding train with no breaks. I can't do this. I don't understand how to.