Kids my age usually didn't want to hang out with me, so I ended up being with the younger kids. I liked them better anyway. I always felt like the parents of the neighborhood kids tried to keep their kids away from me. My mom and brother said I acted extremely bratty and spoiled as a child, but my sister says I was normal. At any rate, I was usually lonely and played by myself a lot of the time.
In junior high I remember having to walk to and from school everyday which was almost one mile. I hated walking alone, as I got a bit scared. I tried to walk with two girls that lived a block away from me but they always tried to ditch me and if I caught up with them they'd try to walk fast ahead of me so I'd give up and not walk with them.
Aside from counselors diagnosing me with various things, I've had people say "Are you on drugs?", "You're weird!", "You're so flighty!", "This guy I know works with you and he says you're soooo stupid.", "You're very eccentric", "You're odd", "You're unique", "You're strange", "You march to beat of a different drummer", "You daydream too much", and I even had a high school teacher call my parents and tell them that she thought that I was on drugs because her brother used to be on drugs and he acted the same way I did.
And of course, as I explained in another post, my 2nd grade teacher said about me "Odd combination of little girl and little old lady."
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I'm selfish, impatient, &
a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am
out of control, & at times
hard to handle.
But if you can't handle
me at my worst,
then you sure as hell
don't deserve me
at my best.
-Marilyn Monroe