Thursday, May 17, 2007

But doesn't that depend?  Cam and I read that Wells story together, about the man who could see in the country of the blind. That man had a sense no one else did.  He should have been king.  Didn't quite work out that way.

Or look at people who have too many fingers.  I've heard they do surgery on that kind of thing, get rid of it.  You'd think an extra digit could be an asset, but it isn't.  Because the world isn't set up for it.

If you don't have all the senses everyone is supposed to, they'll help you out.  But I don't think it's out of the kindness of their heart.  They just want everyone at a certain level.  

When I was in kindergarten, the teacher said to stop reading at school.  The other kids didn't know how, and it would make them feel bad.

I spent pretty much the whole time in school being teased for being too smart.  It started getting better in high school, because people started caring about their grades.  One guy was really nice to me.  I knew it was because I helped him with his homework whenever he asked, but I didn't care.  I was just so glad that somebody was even pretending to like me.

He wasn't completely pretending.  There were other smart people, and he picked me.  We had even started hanging out together.  

That was when they took me out of school, and I didn't see him again after that.  

I wonder if he wondered where I went.

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