Today, upon waking up from my morning dream, I felt despair in my stomach.
Since a child, I had been told I was different. At first, I thought it made me special and smarter than everyone else. I’d go see doctors to measure my I.Q., though I thought the tests were weak to determine someone’s true learning abilities. I liked the attention, except, it was negative attention. Because, eventually, it turned into medicating me. If I had known, as a child, I would have said, “Please, Mamma, please do not medicate me,” because I now know where this led to. I wish all kids could know, […]