Was I the bad kid?
The way I grew up is unlike anyone else grew up. I say that as a cliche because I can because I am an identical twin. Now just take that as a fact, the reason I say this is because people will challenge me and in fact call me a liar in my face because they think I'm lying. I assure you I am and if you want the evidence it is there for the taking if you do some research. That not withstanding I was labeled a bad kid.
I was the kid who could not to go field trips for behavior reason and for whatever reason my identical twin did not go as well for behavior. We were often stuck in a room with an unfamiliar old man who would smell of bourbon and stale cigarettes that I associate with old men who smoke. I know that I was a handful probably with ADHD and things like that but I was also a gifted child with test scores in the 99-98 percentiles as the district tried to skip us ahead because we (my brother and I ) were bored.
Now that I think of it now it is something we could have fixed I guess. My brother and I were put into lots of sports/activities to try to calm us down but nothing really worked. And as was the policy in our school we were never in the same class/ lunch etc. Now I look at it 20 years from the situation and I wonder if I wasn't a bad kid but was associated with my brother for everything because we were very identical at that point. I wonder if I was the kid who could not go to field trips because my brother was bad. I knew my brother was bad in the alley going to our babysitter he constantly tried to set the dumpsters on fire. He would save his lunch money for cigarettes as we hurried home for power rangers. Was I justified in thinking this? I guess if I interview my teachers (if they are still alive and there) I could tell but I wasn't a real problem again until high school and well that's another story.
I was the kid who could not to go field trips for behavior reason and for whatever reason my identical twin did not go as well for behavior. We were often stuck in a room with an unfamiliar old man who would smell of bourbon and stale cigarettes that I associate with old men who smoke. I know that I was a handful probably with ADHD and things like that but I was also a gifted child with test scores in the 99-98 percentiles as the district tried to skip us ahead because we (my brother and I ) were bored.
Now that I think of it now it is something we could have fixed I guess. My brother and I were put into lots of sports/activities to try to calm us down but nothing really worked. And as was the policy in our school we were never in the same class/ lunch etc. Now I look at it 20 years from the situation and I wonder if I wasn't a bad kid but was associated with my brother for everything because we were very identical at that point. I wonder if I was the kid who could not go to field trips because my brother was bad. I knew my brother was bad in the alley going to our babysitter he constantly tried to set the dumpsters on fire. He would save his lunch money for cigarettes as we hurried home for power rangers. Was I justified in thinking this? I guess if I interview my teachers (if they are still alive and there) I could tell but I wasn't a real problem again until high school and well that's another story.