Angela MondorClickUp Verified Consultant, ClickUp · Operations consultant & ClickUp Verified Consultant for neurodivergent entrepreneurs

The Day I Glued My Math Book Shut 😡 #shorts #ADHD #shortsvideo

19 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube Shorts video, Angela Mondor recounts a vivid memory from second grade when she failed to complete her math homework the night before. While her classmates listened to a story, she was forced to sit at the back of the classroom to finish the work, feeling intense anger and frustration. She describes the clear glue bottle with a brown nipple that she used to seal her math book shut—a symbolic act of rebellion against the punitive classroom environment. Angela connects this early experience of being singled out and punished to later traits she identifies as perfectionism and people‑pleasing, framing the story through the lens of her ADHD diagnosis. The clip serves both as a personal anecdote and a broader commentary on how early academic pressure can shape coping mechanisms and self‑image in neurodivergent individuals.

will later turn into perfectionism and people-pleasing traits. It makes sense, doesn't it?
Yes. Yeah. And people-pleasing for sure. I, I remember clearly, I, I was in grade 1 or 2. I think it was 2. I hadn't done my math homework the night before, and all the other kids were sitting in the circle and they were getting to listen to the book that the teacher was, was gonna read. And I had to sit in the back of the room and do my math homework. Little Angela was a little pissed. Not, not, not a lie. I was mad. And I, I can clearly see, you know, remember those old glue bottles? They're clear, but they had the, like, a brown nipple on top.
Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah.
So I started at the front of the book, and I remember doing this. I was, like, banging it against the book, and I flipped the page, and I banged it against the book, and I flipped the page. I glued the entire frickin' math book together while she was reading her story. They do not like little girls to ask questions or stand up or anything because the school psychologist was called. There was like this whole thing that had to happen with my mom. Like, oh, they thought that there was this problem child.