Grade-School

I went to a public elementary school in Kansas.

I never really understood why the other kids would complain about the homework assignments, etc.

I can still recall doing my homework assignments as the teacher was assigning it and explaining how to do the work to the class.

I never took any work home and never got anything but A's.

I was not popular among the other students. The teachers seemed to like me, but I was picked on somewhat by the other children. I was overweight and didn't maintain good hygiene, so I made myself a fine target for the more athletic kids.

I remember a kid named Daniel playing a joke on me. There was more to it, but it basically consisted of spitting in my hand, punching me in the stomach, and running away laughing.

I was a bit slow. Physically slow, in the sense that I couldn't run very fast. But also slow mentally. Not slow/stupid, but actually somewhat slow in mental processing time. It seemed that I saw the world in infinite shades of gray while others saw in black and white.