Yesterday I found myself dwelling on a strange memory from seventh grade.<\/p>\n
I didn’t do homework for about two weeks because — and this is going to sound dumb — I had no pencils. And I either didn’t know how to or didn’t want to ask my parents to get pencils for me. <\/p>\n
It actually reached a point where there was a quiz in my math class, and I found a nub of a pencil lead in my pencil case — just the lead, about a quarter inch long — and tried to do the quiz with that.<\/p>\n
The teacher was absolutely horrified. She asked where my pencil was. I told her I didn’t have any. She drove me home from school one day because she wanted to have a meeting with my parents.<\/p>\n
To this day, I do not understand why I felt I could not ask my parents for pencils.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if I was too embarassed to ask or if I didn’t want to bother them.<\/p>\n
It’s possible it never even occurred to me that I could ask for pencils.<\/p>\n
What the hell was wrong with me? \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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