"𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 - 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐮𝐩."
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WERE YOU A WEIRD KID TOO?
A lovely old friend who knew me from primary school shared that I'd always been a... different kind of kid. As many of you here were!
I wrote poems about the Japanese Occupation in Primary 2, and was constantly creating clubs for all things whimsical. Faeries. Mermaids. The Romanovs (lol). Princesses. She's always been someone whose opinion I respected, so I was touched to hear that she thought this.
But then, also... I remember being ostracised by other kids at school for being different. One of the phrases consistently used by most of my teachers to refer to me was "airy fairy". "up in the clouds". I was WARNED to try and be less so, by a well meaning teacher, who told me the staffroom had been talking about me. I remember always feeling like a heart shaped peg made to fit into a square hole. I'm sure many of us felt this way.
I treasure the rare, perceptive few teachers who understood this simple truth: that different kids have different strengths.
Was tasked to create a project about the heliocentric model of the universe. Wrote a ditty about Copernicus. My physics teacher played it proudly for the class & featured it in the science fair. In uni, was tasked to write projections about the future of genetics. Turned in a dystopian novella. My biomolecular science prof sent a copy to the whole class to read. And my humanities teachers & profs always made us arts kids feel like we were seen & acknowledged & RESPECTED, in a system that often didn't.
What I'm trying to say is: encourage kids to thrive in the way they do best. Don't stifle creativity and don't write off innovative imagination as impracticality or dysfunction. Our world is going to need a GENERATION of unique thinkers to creatively problem-solve the world we've left for them to inherit. Today's dreamer may become tomorrow's pioneer, or humanitarian, or healer, or world leader, or tech genius. Or maybe even... mermaid flunkey? 😂you never know. You really never know.
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