Why childhood labels such as ‘strange’ or ‘too much’ do not define adult capability
The traits that made you an outcast at ten may be precisely what makes you indispensable at forty—if you survived the gap between.
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The traits that made you an outcast at ten may be precisely what makes you indispensable at forty—if you survived the gap between.
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