I think this is a song with excellent insight ... and it just makes me feel good. I believe it's about people who are "different" ... born disabled in some ways, but incredibly gifted in others.
I think of my 5 year old son who has been tested and labelled again and again as aspergers or ADHD, or OD etc etc. Turns out he is brilliant. He is eternally frustrated because he doesn't relate to his peers ( he reads, creates machines from toys and doesn't see how dress up could be fun).. He talks like an adult and doesn't understand why he cannot live like one.. He doesn't fit in with kids, teachers misunderstand his questions and constant testing of his own ideas as defiant rather than creative. One school teacher told me...
I think of my 5 year old son who has been tested and labelled again and again as aspergers or ADHD, or OD etc etc. Turns out he is brilliant. He is eternally frustrated because he doesn't relate to his peers ( he reads, creates machines from toys and doesn't see how dress up could be fun).. He talks like an adult and doesn't understand why he cannot live like one.. He doesn't fit in with kids, teachers misunderstand his questions and constant testing of his own ideas as defiant rather than creative. One school teacher told me she would "train him" to stop questioning everything-- let's just say, she got more than an earful about that from me. This song may be about something else, but when I hear it, I feel it describes people like him.. And it also describes me. I was born the same way and it wasn't until I was an adult that my unique thought processes and gift for analytical thinking were accepted by anyone but my wonderfully supportive parents.. You see sometimes, if you are gifted and very, very young, you are treated like a freak of nature for being different.
I think this is a song with excellent insight ... and it just makes me feel good. I believe it's about people who are "different" ... born disabled in some ways, but incredibly gifted in others.
I think of my 5 year old son who has been tested and labelled again and again as aspergers or ADHD, or OD etc etc. Turns out he is brilliant. He is eternally frustrated because he doesn't relate to his peers ( he reads, creates machines from toys and doesn't see how dress up could be fun).. He talks like an adult and doesn't understand why he cannot live like one.. He doesn't fit in with kids, teachers misunderstand his questions and constant testing of his own ideas as defiant rather than creative. One school teacher told me...
I think of my 5 year old son who has been tested and labelled again and again as aspergers or ADHD, or OD etc etc. Turns out he is brilliant. He is eternally frustrated because he doesn't relate to his peers ( he reads, creates machines from toys and doesn't see how dress up could be fun).. He talks like an adult and doesn't understand why he cannot live like one.. He doesn't fit in with kids, teachers misunderstand his questions and constant testing of his own ideas as defiant rather than creative. One school teacher told me she would "train him" to stop questioning everything-- let's just say, she got more than an earful about that from me. This song may be about something else, but when I hear it, I feel it describes people like him.. And it also describes me. I was born the same way and it wasn't until I was an adult that my unique thought processes and gift for analytical thinking were accepted by anyone but my wonderfully supportive parents.. You see sometimes, if you are gifted and very, very young, you are treated like a freak of nature for being different.