Scott Barry Kaufman

And that sort of processing speed issue is one that I confronted first and foremost as a kid.

And I believe the official diagnosis was I was too immature to go on to fourth grade.

And I remember thinking to myself, my gosh, I must be really immature if I'm too immature to go to fourth grade.

That's really bad.

They say things like he's off to the side often, like socially isolated.

He seems to be in his own world.

I guess they viewed all that as some form of worrying disability, you know, that I sort of was off on my own planet over there.

It really amplified this feeling I already had of that I was different.

I remember even from first to third grade, I felt like a huge outsider from the other kids, but then making me repeat third grade and then having all my friends go on and they kept me there, it amplified it to a very, very large degree.

I remember feeling really, really low self-esteem

And I remember just being very, very confused because I didn't actually feel like there was anything wrong with me.

If you took me back to Penwyn Elementary School and you're like, show me the bathroom, show me the sink that you were pushed, your face was pushed into the sink and the water was running, I could point you directly to it.

And I just remember being taunted and being told things like, oh, you're too stupid to go on the fourth grade, you idiot, that sort of thing.

But yeah, it was really painful.

I remember driving up this very windy road to get there.

It somehow seems fitting.

Very, very long, long, windy road.

I remember the road.

I remember I was with my mom.

I remember the building.