Who's The Boss?

A lot of my childhood awkwardness could be attributed to my height and weight. As I mentioned in previous posts, I was short and skinny for my age and that has never changed. I have learned not only how to deal with that now as an adult, but actually I have learned to be very proud of it. There are many advantages to my size. However, as a fifth grade kid those advantages are not very apparent. Though I was really, really good at baseball, I was always picked last or just ahead of the kid who obviously had parents who were brother and sister. And every time I came up to bat, everyone in the outfield would move up almost to the infield. This is where my mind as a child, and my mind now, differ. Now, I think of it as a huge advantage that my peers thought of me as the puny, little scrawn who obviously can't play ball; because every time at bat I would smash a hit WAY past all of the players, even if they didn't underestimate me and would have played at normal outfield depth, and I would get a homerun because I was so fast that before the outfielders could even pick the ball up I was already at home. If I could have thought of it that way as a kid than I would have wished that those kids would never learn their stereotyping lesson, and would always play close up for my at bats giving me a 100% homerun rate. But instead, I would get really depressed and down on myself because, in their eyes, I was basically just a slight edge above the mongoloid kid who didn't even know that dirt wasn't a lunch food. See people, stereotyping does have its advantages....it allows those who are looked at as pathetic the ability to over and over again rise above, gain an upper hand against the ones committing the stereotype, and show them who is boss. Because one day in the future, it is very likely that we will be their boss! (I hope my stereotype doesn't lead to good ol' mongoloid becoming my boss!) ;) <--that's a wink