I Was a Weird, Lonely Child, But...

This writing "assignment" was given to me by one of the wonderful people I follow here on Substack.

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Ever since I can remember (well, after kindergarten, anyway. Kindergarten was pretty normal for me,) I’ve been The Weird Kid. As a child—up until, I guess about the age of 13—I didn’t have many friends. Even the few I did have were eventually forbidden from hanging out with me. To this day I do not know why. If m…