I dunno, I've always been apparently really good with a lot of stuff (Mostly logical stuff, like grammar or science and stuff like that) though I hyperventilate if given any task that doesn't have a black and white 'yes' or 'no' answer to it.
Screw homework though, that shit is atrocious.
I've never had trouble with admitting my own faults though, to a pretty large fault as I constantly insult myself not out of self-loathing (Perhaps a bit) but out of tradition I suppose, mostly that started happening after one time in sports a few years ago, I think? i was told by some other kid that I was horrible at the sport we were playing at the time, but there was a ton of bullying happening to me at the time, so that was about the point i broke and started to insult myself, that started a pretty bad slide downwards in which my grades in almost all classes started slipping from A to C across the board, and I still haven't recovered.
Also, this is the longest time I've seen any thread go off on a tangent, for good reason, I imagine.
And Salmon? I sympathize with that poor bastard because trust me on this, I've started High-school and it either gets panic inducingly hard or mind-numbingly boring or, if you're lucky, incredibly frustrating, there's a reason I've started constantly drinking Diet Coke, so if he wants to get through the later stages of school intact he better find friends, and fast.
Perhaps, anyway, for now I would see, perhaps he gets extra lucky and finds himself in the majority crowd, I wouldn't know yet.