When I was a kid...

When I was a kid I lost half of my hearing and people stopped talking to me and girls stopped liking me. I tried to talk to them my selves but I had trouble hearing and I was too poor to wear hearing aids, so people just didn't talk to the "deaf little boy". Frustrated, I left the social setting to hang out in the library, and the first book I read from the library was an encyclopedia. That encyclopedia taught me more about everything, such as the sacrifice rituals of the Aztec, racism, how a gun works, what life is about (reproduction, protection of self and species), basics of building a nuclear bomb, the water cycle, and a myriad of other things.

When I finally did get my hearing aids, (middle school, 3 years after coming to america), I tried asking other kids about what they thought about this stuff and the news, and apparently they were more interested in whether x made the football team or whether some girl thought y guy was cute. My peers just weren't interested in non-social things and rejected me again. Although I have a few friends, I only had two girls that liked me in my entire life, I never been to a party outside a BBQ my parents asked me to go to, never got laid, and never became part of the cool and popular and supporting crowd, regardless of my appearance/grades.

Never the less, reading is fun and is much better than reality, according to my experience.