What set you apart from the rest of the kids at school?
Submitted by jks.
Initially, it was awkwardness. I was enough of an introvert that I didn't immediately throw myself into forging friendships with my fellow kindergarteners so when the first social circles came into being I was only tenuously included.
This brought about the next thing that set me apart, ostracism. Odd man out. Every emerging tribe needs something or someone to hold themselves seperate from/above. That was my given role.
In turn, the isolation turned to anger, hatred, bitterness, distrust, and frustration.
By the end of my educational run, what set me apart was that I had well established myself as a bent, darkly perceptive weirdo. But I was OK with that.
What story from your wild-and-crazy youth would nobody believe about you today?
I was not only a Boy Scout, but I'm an Eagle Scout.
Although, given my fascination with knives, axes, rope, and wilderness areas... perhaps it's not that unbelievable.
