Chapter 1

The older I get, the more certain memories from my childhood replay in my mind while others continue to fade away. The interesting thing to me is that most of the memories that now repeatedly play out in my mind are those that I didn't think twice about at the time as a child. 

In the last ten years I find myself repeatedly trying to recall and tease out the details of the memory from the time I was tested for a learning disability. 

The bus
The large pencil
Flash Cards
Mrs. Frazierwood
PE and the Bean Bag
The chickens
The blind taste test
The day my head was stepped on
Nap time
The test
The tutor
Teddy

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