Stupid Kids Class

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Ever since I was little I thought I was stupid, actually stupid with a low IQ. Except I prided myself on not being in what everyone called the stupid kid class… then I was and I didn’t want to be talked to by the other kids and I didn’t fit in all of a sudden. Everyone thought I was the stupidest person there because I was not getting anything when I wasn’t in the “stupid kids class.” They told me “your brain just works… differently.” Now why would I think I was smart after they told me the most generic thing to say “you’re an idiot, you’re a stupid kid.” How do they think I would believe them, of course now that I’m looking back on it I realize that if I was stupid I wouldn’t have realized I was stupid. Man do I wi I thought of that then my

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