As an intelligent, middle-aged, blond-haired, blue-eyed, bisexual, depressed Wiccan student, I bring more to class than meets the eye. I encountered adversity and discrimination from the tender age of five. You may be wondering why the age of five, and I'll tell you why. In kindergarten I preferred reading books rather than playing with other students my age. My teachers worried that I was autistic or that I was being abused. Never, not in my teachers' wildest dreams, would they consider that I preferred books to my classmates because I couldn't relate to my classmates because my IQ was so high. It took three different professionals evaluating me, testing me, and questioning me to convince them that this young daughter of 2 chefs, with blonde hair and blue eyes, had an IQ of 168 and that I was otherwise perfectly normal. As I continued to grow and develop, I questioned everything around me, challenged everything that was said, and looked at things in a different light than most people, and it confused and scared them. But I also persevered emotionally and sexually...