Go away, leper!

The excema will stop when you turn six and people will stop mocking you...

The asthma and excema will stop when she's 10 and the'll stop mocking her...

Don't worry about them...they're not as smart as you are and they can't pronounce all those weird dinosaur names.

Hey,at least they gave you an honorary  'media prefect' badge because you spent 3 years there (and they felt obliged) and they must appreciate the fact that you have read most of and cataloged all the books alphabetically by title (and in case they didn't like it that way, by author) for just in case.

It's okay that your skin oozes and get's stuck yo your bobby sock winter school uniform because at least for 4 months of the African winter they forget to mock you.

It's alright that your years hiding in the  library studying mammals, reptiles. fish, birds, paleontology and Greek, Roman and Norse mythology were completely lost on your pears.

You grew up mentally pointing out to yourself every time they phonetically screwed up while they told you how much better than you they were...

Why did you climb on that toilet seat?You were six years old! What could possibly have prompted you to...
...oh.
There was something shiny there and for reasons my adult mind can never understand...I cut myself.

It was all you had. It is all you have. It;ll probably be all I ever have....