By Tara Westover — 2022
For kids today from poorer backgrounds, the path I took through education no longer exists.
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An in-person semester means a more eventful college lifestyle and an outbreak of widespread perfectionism.
Good teachers helped me to achieve success. I was able to overcome autism because I had good teachers.
I am becoming increasingly concerned that intellectually gifted children are being denied opportunities because they are being labeled either Asperger’s or high functioning autism.
I’m the first to admit that for many years, I was a bit emotionally needy. Not in a crazy, desperate way, but in the way that many of us are. I wanted someone else to make me happy, blamed others for my unhappiness, sought to fulfill my emotional needs through others.
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