I was similar except I wasn’t good at memorizing facts. Give me a problem to solve and I’d be one of the first to solve it, plus I could find all the connections that even teachers missed.
Finally when I started self studying I realized I could learn 2-3x faster than the class was teaching the material. I noticed all kinds of contradictions with what teachers and parents said but when I pointed them out they’d change the topic or get angry at me.
One of the handful of true stories from my novel (which is 95% fiction) is when the boy (me) was told that “we live in a free country” I immediately decided to walk out of the classroom and go to the bathroom without raising my hand. I got in a lot of trouble for that. The teacher lectured me about how “we need rules to prevent chaos” and I said “ok, so we live in a KIND OF MAYBE free country”