This is the seventh segment in our series, Faces of Mental Health, which gives people an intimate look inside of children’s services. To see our latest story, check us out on Facebook at Youth Dynamics of Montana or People of Youth Dynamics every Tuesday and Thursday night at 5:30pm. You can also catch the stories at youthdynamicsmt on Instagram, or Youth Dynamics of Montana on Linkedin.
“I always feel like most of the kids don’t like me. Mom says it’s because I’m so smart and they’re afraid. My two closest friends have become closer since my best friend moved away. We are all in accelerated curricular studies.
I like to read books; I am probably the last kid of my kind that likes to do that. In the fourth grade, I read at a tenth-grade level. I look forward to learning Spanish and French in high school. Knowing two languages makes you smarter; in that case I would like to learn three.
I don’t like school; it never did it for me. I am ignored most of the time. There are only two kids that I have known since kindergarten; that is out of thirty. I get a best friend and then they leave a year later.
Most famous people did not have formal schooling. The most intelligent people in history did poorly in school.”
