That’s the only one I can actually think of at the moment where I was unusual or stood out. Any kind of physical skill was off the table for me LOL. I was assessed at a college reading level in first grade and I read every book in the school library (even the completely random ones like a random Arnold Schwarzenegger workout book despite having no interest in this—my eyes just wanted to scan text and process information) to the point that our school librarian would bring books from her own personal collection for me to read.
I would go to the public library throughout my tweens and teens and check out 30 books at a time nonfiction and fiction and challenge myself to read them all before they were due. Collecting and finding them all to return to the library was always a struggle.
In elementary school I would finish my work in class long before anybody else and my teachers didn’t know what to do with me so they would just let me sit and read for the entire school day. We had a solar system Accelerated Reader chart for the whole school where the more you read the further out you got from the sun and I was always alone out on Pluto.
A few years after I graduated I ran into someone at a gay bar who had always gone to the same schools as me but below me by a couple of years and they were so starstruck to meet me and said I was like Harry Potter to them 😐
