It look me a long time to figure out that I get upset when things are hard because so many things have been easy, especially school things. When I realized that the people who teased me for being terrible in P.E. were terrible in Am Hist alongside me being good at it, I understood them better, but I didn’t like P.E. any better.

I don’t know how to help kids learn that a) everybody’s good and bad at different things and b) you can still have fun at things you’re bad at. Or that there’s a way to cope somewhere between crying and punching.