I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.