Scott Barry Kaufman

Well, my blood boiled a bit and I

I calmed myself down.

I just said, maybe you could just keep looking deeper at beyond the IQ and to maybe think about him in a bit of a broader way where you look at the totality of him, not a particular slice of him when you're making that kind of judgment call.

And he agreed.

I mean, he, he agreed to his credit.

He, he's like, that's a good point.

And I just kind of realized in that moment, like,

you know what?

Like he's not evil.

He's human.

He was probably doing the best that he could at the time in what he knew and how he was trained.

And, and he, and even now he was doing the best he can to try to help this kid.

And the best I could do is not yell at him or tell him my story, but to just tell him about the field of twice exceptional and to tell him about, well, maybe here's some resources.

So I offered him some resources to help this kid based on the research I've done

I wish someone told him that when I was in 11th grade, maybe he would have treated me differently.

But then again, if he treated me differently, maybe I wouldn't have been in the position to ever even be that park bench to tell him that.

So it's all very weird.

I don't know.

Life sometimes you just got to go with it.

Thank you.