When I was in middle school, I was the kid that rushed to finish classwork so I could take a quick nap in class. Teachers wondered why I was so tired at school, but they didn’t look into it.
While my classmates made my constant sleepiness into a nickname and started calling me “Grandma.” At home, I struggled to find time to do homework because my body constantly wanted to sleep, and ignoring it made me feel worse.
My parents thought I was tired because of my schoolwork and chores, but I felt tired even without doing anything. I thought it was cool as a kid that I knew the exact amount of time it took to run to school.
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