What the Crap Society

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I love to read

I CAN'T READ

half of a page out load

and it make any sense.

I read a 600 page book

in one day.

I am really good at math.

I CAN'T DO MATH

like 16 times 8 in my

head in 10 seconds.

I scored advance

on every math EOI.

I am dyslexic.

I CAN'T SPELL DYSLEXIC

correctly the first time

without pausing to think.

I am the top

of my class.

I am dyslexic. But.

I AM WHITE, AND PRIVELEGED,

AND I HAVE A 4.0

so you do not readily believe me.

What the CRAP society?

You told me to be successful.

You told me that to be successful

I needed to be good

at things I would never use.

You told me that I was bad

at these thing I needed

to know that I would never use.

So I learned how to do them.

So I learned how to do them well.

So I learned how to be great at them.

And I became successful.

And now you look down on me

for being successful.

You are angry at me for overcoming.

You tell my peers,

your unsuccessful minions that

I DO NOT DESERVE TO BE SUCCESSFUL,

that I AM WHITE and PRIVILEGED

and that I HAVE A 4.0

That I think I am better than them.

WHAT THE CRAP SOCIETY?

I thought I was trying to please you,

By becoming better at un-useful things,

To be what you said I needed.

But now you are angry with me,

Because I believed the wrong LIE.

I BELIEVED THAT I WAS BROKEN

instead of believing that I couldn't be fixed.

what.

the.

crap.

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